VACANCY:

HEALTH & SAFETY OFFICER

SA Steelworks requires the services of a motivated, experienced and committed individual to drive their Health and Safety initiatives and programmes. This position requires a dynamic, flexible personality, who is able to work in a fast paced, continuous shift environment.

QUALIFYING CRITERIA:

- Grade 12 or equivalent

- National Diploma or Certificate in Safety Management or equivalent

- Current Computer Literacy in MS Word, Excel and Outlook

- 5 - 8 years' experience in a production environment

- Excellent communication skills

POSITION REQUIREMENTS:

The incumbent will be responsible for, but not limited to:

- Ensure compliance with Company safety regulations and adherence to safety standards, including safety induction and training

- Develop an infrastructure to ensure adherence to the health and safety policy and procedures

- Create safety manuals and develop training programmes to enhance safe working conditions

- Review and update Emergency Procedures as and when necessary

- Identify unsafe acts, conditions, and hazards, investigate root causes and identify corrective and preventative actions

- Conduct workplace Hazard Identification and Risk Assessments

- Design and implement responses to the above mentioned HIRA's

- Inspect the place of work to determine whether any machinery, plant, equipment, substance, appliances or process is of such nature liable to cause bodily injury to any person working in the place of work

- Investigate any accident, near-miss accident, dangerous occurrence, occupational poisoning or occupational disease that occurred in the place of work

- Design and implement responses to these to minimise or prevent a recurrence

Type	Permanent after a probation period
Benefits include	Competitive Salary Provident fund (savings and risk) Discovery Health Hospital Plan 15 working days leave per annum
Standard hours	07:30 - 17:00 Monday - Thursday 07:30 - 16:00 Friday May be required to work overtime as per operational requirements
Salary	Negotiable depending on qualifications and experience
Interested applicants are required to forward their CV to recruitment@sametal.co.za and quote this reference number: HSO0112 in the subject line no later than Friday, 20 January 2012. We regret that we cannot contact all applicants regarding their status. Should you not be contacted by us within 14 days from the date of your submission, please consider your application unsuccessful.