Environmental, Health And Safety Officer

Actively drive the implementation and sustenance of the EHS Management System and promote a safe working culture amongst personnel through EHS awareness promotion and training.

Responsibilities

• Perform EHS site inspections to ensure compliance with the safety processes and policies as guided by EHS plans.
• Enforce compliance to Health, Safety & environment policies, procedures, rules and regulations to all employees and concerned parties.

• Participate in the development of health & safety guidelines, communications, safe systems of work and standard operating procedures.

• Regularly review, update and communicate Health, Safety & environment policies, procedures, rules and regulations to all employees and concerned parties.

• Ensure the Company complies with its statutory obligations in areas pertaining to health, safety, environment, statutory trainings, audits, wastes disposal, firefighting appliances inspections and reporting.

• Ensure risk assessments are done as per the company plans.

• Ensure that all accidents/incidents are documented, investigated and recommended corrective/preventive actions are implemented.

• Carry out induction trainings to all new employees and visitors on EHS as required.

• Ensure that safety inspections are carried out, risk assessments SOPs are managed and employees are aware of their responsibilities.

• Actively participate in enhancing compliance to ISO 14001:2015 and ISO 45001:2018 standards requirements.

• Keep up to date with all aspects of relevant health, safety & welfare at work legislation and communicate relevant changes to management.

• Provide relevant information for monthly EHS reports.

• Accountable for supervision, administration and record keeping on area specific EHS audits, inspections, reports, certifications, permits to works, etc.

• Maintain record of all EHS compliance permits, licenses and certifications.

• Coordinates with other departments the application of a ‘Permit to Work System’ for all activities requiring permits.

• Supervise the EHS improvement activities implementation.

Job Requirements
Required education
: Bachelor's degree

Required relevant work experience
: 3 years

Required languages:
Swahili (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent)English (Spoken: fluent | Written: fluent),
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