Occupational Health & Safety Officer at Stratostaff

Overall Purpose of the role

The overall role of this position is to ensure compliance and total adherence to Occupational Health and Safety Procedures and policies.

• Review OHS assessment and control self-assessment actions and create an action plan
• Close off the pending actions from all type of assessments
• Close off actions from accident and incident investigations
• Review and understand OHS maturity assessment and create an action plan to close the gaps
• Plan OHS activities (risk assessments, inspections, trainings etc.) and create an OHS plan
• Deliver the OHS trainings for both service engineers and managers
• Support Installations managers in OHS management in projects
• Liaise with OHS officers and operational managers to plan risk assessments
• Conduct risk assessment both on customer sites and office
• Conduct OHS inspections
• Prepare local OHS procedures (Adapt from OHS at customer sites manual)
• Coach organization managers for risk assessment application
• Follow up legal register and regularly inform OHS officer
• Follow up the markets KPIs
• Prepare regular reports for OHS steering committee
• Support OHS officer for investigation and reporting of incidents and accidents
• Advice on actions to improve OHS culture
• Prepare competence development program for function managers
• Organize well-being programs
• Prepare tool-box talks

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science or any a related field.
• At least 2-3 years’ relevant job experience i.e. OHS capacity preferably in a manufacturing/logistics set up.
• Professional qualification in OHS
• Practical experience in Kenyan OHS regulations and the use of formal OHS risk assessments.
• Taking initiative and work with minimum supervision
• Organization and Planning
• HSE Training is desirable
• Ability to work independently
• Organized, rigorous and precise. Must also have good reporting skills
• Recognizes and resolves problems quickly and efficiently
• Ability to effectively communicate and deal with clients & team members