Safety Officer
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Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards on a mine construction site.
Wood Minerals & Metals is looking to appoint a Site Safety Officer to join the HSEC team on the Etango Mine construction site, located approximately 35 km from Swakopmund, Namibia. The project involves the construction of an 8 Mtpa uranium mine, with major civil and earthworks activities currently underway. The successful candidate will report directly to the HSEC Manager and provide hands-on safety support across the construction site.
The Site Safety Officer will play a key role in ensuring compliance with project HSEC requirements, legal obligations, and contractor safety standards. The position will support the HSEC Manager, Construction Manager, and Project Manager in driving a strong safety culture and maintaining safe work practices across all site activities
Only local Nambian applicants will be considered.
- Provide daily reporting to HSEC Manager, and Construction Manager on request.
- Compile weekly HSEC report and forward to functional manager.
- Inspect and sign off contractor HSEC Management Plan.
- Provide technical advice on matters relating to industrial hygiene, safety and environmental matters and ensure safety programs comply with project specification, legal requirements, standards and policies.
- Assist the HSEC Manager for the roll out of HSEC information related to site activities.
- Manage HSEC issues in designated area of responsibility on site.
- Conduct Safety Interventions.
- Participate in bi-weekly HSEC coordination meetings.
- Participate in bi-weekly HSEC management and contractor safety walk abouts.
- Attend daily/weekly progress meetings associated in the area of responsibility.
- Conduct inspections on work permits; ensuring current and documentation maintained.
- Monitor daily contractor crew talks.
- Monitor safe work procedures, verifying contractor compliance.
- Conduct risk management in the identification of hazards in the workplace and recommend corrective or preventive measures, including control systems to detect deviation from agreed HSEC policies.
- Participate in incident and/or accident investigations and coordinate corrective and preventative actions.
- Conduct site inspections related to waste disposal and industrial hygiene, protective clothing and the storage of dangerous chemicals and other substances.
- Provide technical advice on chemical and physical agent behaviour, impact and control as they effect the environment and health of employees and users.
- Initiate and conduct HSEC audits on contractors associated with area of responsibility.
- Provide advice to project personnel on strategies and problem solving on HSEC matters.
- Inspection of work activities in compliance with Risk Assessments.
- Participate in site hazard inspections
- Ensure all contractors practice HSEC standards as required by the project
Qualifications:
- NEBOSH IGC and/or NEBOSH International Diploma
- NADSAM
- BTech
Knowledge, skills and experience:
- Minimum of 5 years as a HSEC Advisor in a project environment
- Registered with SACPCMP as CHSO
- Extensive knowledge of local HSE legislation.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Computer literate
Personal attributes:
- Good communication skills.
- Must be a team player.
- Maintain discipline under difficult conditions lationship and networking ability.
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