INTRODUCTION:

Komatsu South Africa has an opportunity for a Specialist Health & Safety to join the Safety Department at their Head Office in Germiston. The successful candidate should have a National Diploma in Safety Management (NQF5) and 10 years industry experience as a SHE specialist.

SUMMARY OF JOB ROLE:

1. Horizon Planning: 
   Determines detailed priorities with regard to planned work
   Supervises and executes agreed project(s) / objectives aligned with approved plans
   Facilitates, supervises and executes progress and flow of planned work/projects
   Oversees execution of planned work / projects
2. Human Capital:
   Evaluates team members' achievement of results against agreed priorities within the performance management framework
   Monitor quality and quantity of production / process/ output on a weekly / monthly basis
   Prepares statistics / feedback on development progress vs. approved learning and development plan
   Reports on disciplinary hearings and outcomes
3. Financial Management:
   Supervises and executes the budget
   Participates in the planning of audits in collaboration with the Finance/Audit function
   Checks and controls income / expenses against approved operating budget for section
   Prepares and compiles budget report on expenditures and revenues
   Reports anomalies on budget to leadership
   Submits staff S&T and overtime / expense claims for approval
4. Corporate Governance:
   Communicates changes to policies & procedures to subordinate staff
   Follows up and monitor implementation decisions by Governing Committees
   Provides information on staff adherence to policies, procedures and controls
5. SHE Policy & Procedure Implementation:
   Identifies areas of potential risk and proposes mitigation strategies
   Prepares and regularly updates hazardous material management and fire plans for buildings where required
   Arranging and conducting induction programs
   Liaising with internal stakeholders with regard to dissemination of SHE information/training
   Issuing job observation schedules
   Coordinating the ordering of PPE’s and specialised supplies from vetted Suppliers according to the financial procurement procedures
   Preparing inspection sheets Conducting inspections
   Consolidating & Filing information for collation of regular safety reports
   Suggesting corrective actions and gains approval
   Disseminating information
   Initiating disciplinary action for serious SHE offences
   Completes monthly Health and Safety report
   Reporting any SHE incident/accident, SHE conditions or work practices that are dangerous or could lead to pollution immediately
6. SHE Training:
   Plans fire drills
   Plans and facilitates SHE training for SHE officers and reps, as well as other staff members on a rolling (cyclical) basis
   Arranges and executes fire drills as per schedule
   Executes SHE training plan
   Assists with monitoring of SHE staff skill level progress
   Completes and file induction report
7. SHE Incident Investigations:
   Investigates SHE incidents
   Coordinating medical examinations & information and documenting outcomes for discussion at the Health & Safety committee for decision making
   Coordinating all Injured On Duty documentation (if relevant)
   Collaborating with HR in the process
   Determines root cause and corrective actions
8. Compensation Claims:
   Checking all claims for accuracy and completeness, calculated and resumption reports finalised in order to adjudicate the claims
   Maintains files of claim documents (either manual or electronic)
   Contact doctors and hospitals when medical reports are not legible
   Works closely with Occupational Health service provider
   Reports on claim statistics from the Compensation Commissioner