South Africa: Occupational Health & Safety Specialist (B Tech in Health and Safety – SAIOSH Registered) – Centurion posted by MECS Africa
Posted on 2025-08-13 00:00:00
| Employer | MECS Africa |
|---|---|
| Category | Engineering Management |
| Location | South Africa / South Africa |
Job Summary
- B Degree/B Tech in Health and Safety or a related qualification.
- Registration as Charted Professional at SAIOSH
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience.
- Experience of OHS in a Project Environment.
- Experience in Contractor management in an OHS environment.
- Experience in OHS in a Business Office environment.
- Experience in facilitating on Senior management and Executive level
THE KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS OF THE ROLE IN FOCUS, ARE
- OHS Strategy, Policy, Procedure and Plan
- Advise on the development of the OHS Strategy.
- Guiding and assisting OHS officers (responsible roles) at HO and on projects and operations.
- Develops and implements inspection policies and procedures, and a schedule of routine inspections.
- Compliance to the OHS Act
- Ensuring the OHS appointments according to the Act.
- Ensuring the establishment and functioning of safety committees.
- Ensure that investigations and reporting of accidents and incidents
- Monitor compliance by Contractors and internal staff
- Managing the strategic relationships and networks with internal and external stakeholders.
- Ensuring the implementation of all relevant regulations and procedures according to the OHS Act.
- Review the proposed safety plans of contractors and internal safety officer.
- Auditing contractors against their accepted safety management plan. Resolve all issues related to new template set-up.
- OHS Practice Development
- Ensuring the effectiveness of safety management programs, committees, and safety meetings.
- Ensure knowledge transfer to safety officers through regular planned interaction and mentoring programs.
- Implementing awareness programs based on current trends and leading indicators to promote a proactive safety culture.
- Incident Investigations
- Investigate and report on accidents and incidents.
- Identify and ensure countermeasures are implemented to prevent reoccurrence.
- Prepare reports and present findings to the relevant Committees.
- Financial management
- Develop an OHS budget and control the expenditure within the approved budget.
- Governance and Reporting
- Monitoring and reporting on legislative and statutory compliance as defined by government.
- Promoting sound institutional OHS practices through effective planning, maintenance of operations and service standards, management of compliance and risk and participating in governance structures.
- Resolution of management action plans within the prescribed timelines.
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