The Department of Health aims to provide quality health services and ensure a caring climate for service users, implement best-practice health care strategies, create a positive work environment for staff, and provide appropriate and top-quality training for health workers. Our vision is to provide high-quality, efficient and accessible healthcare to transform people's lives. Our mission is to create an effective public healthcare system in Gauteng by ensuring we have the right people, skills, system and equipment to provide the care our patients need to live healthy and quality lives.
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Qualification: Must have a science-based degree or environmental health or equivalent. Registration: Must be SAIOH Registered Occupational Hygienist Technologist and appropriately certified by the SAIOH Certification Committee.
A minimum of 3 years appropriate experience after registration with the HPCSA in the relevant profession as an Occupational Hygienist
Experience: 2–3 years’ appropriate experience, with at least 1–2 years working experience as a Technologist. Knowledge of the OHS Act (85 of 1993 as amended) and all relevant regulations/guidelines. Knowledge of project management.
Skills: Proficient in MS Office suite. Excellent technological report writing skills. Ability to recognise potential health hazards/risks and effective measures to reduce/eliminate them.
Attributes: Attention to detail, good communication, excellent interpersonal skills, ability to prioritize, work under pressure, analytical/methodological approach, and teamwork.
Duties :
Conduct occupational hygiene surveys, field visits, and inspections to ensure legislative compliance. Conduct interviews and collect environmental samples using monitoring equipment.
Maintain, calibrate, and operate instruments to monitor the work environment. Interpret analytical results and assist in making appropriate recommendations to prevent/control health hazards.
Prepare written reports complying with professional standards. Establish and maintain the integrated Quality Management System (QMS).