Chief Safety Officer at Tharisa

Purpose of Role

The Chief Safety Officer is responsible to for the management of the Safety and Risk Department at a Mine and the optimization of the safety and risk control through design, implementation, evaluation, coordination and management of the safety and risk control systems, as well as for ensuring legal compliance

Role Context

• Area of responsibility meets legal requirements
• Inspections and audits are properly planned and implemented
• Programmes for Safety and Risk Control are effectively monitored
• Valid statistics for Safety and Risk Control are available
• Incident investigations and reports meet specification
• Risk assessments and reports meet specification
• Expenditure meets budget
• Effective management of the Safety and Risk Control function at the Mine
• Legal compliance of Mine
• Safety programme audit
• Project results
• Safety and risk statistics
• Budget Compliance
• Climate Survey
• Achievement of objectives

Requirements

Minimum Requirements

Qualifications:

• Grade 12
• National Diploma in Safety Management
• SAMTRAC Certificate
• COMSOC 1 & 2
• Trade test /Blasting certificate
• Train the Trainer (Facilitator training)

Job specific experience:

• OSHAS 18001/ISO 9001/ISO 14001(Advantage)
• Risk assessment techniques
• Accident investigation
• Behaviour Based Safety
• First Aid
• Firefighting training
• Basic Principles of Occupational Hygiene
• Basic Principles of Environmental Management
• 5-10 years relevant experience