Depot Safety Advisor - Cape Town at BP International

Job Responsibilities

• In addition, the Depot Safety Advisor will be held accountable for the effective delivery of the following :
• Act as SPA for compliance with the bp Operating Management System (OMS)
• Assist with, and form part of ad-hoc incident investigations and highlight near misses.
• Participate and conduct HSE&C risk assessments at the depot.
• Accountable for control of work (COW) self-verification. The Terminal Manager is responsible for COW.
• Responsible for legal compliance in terms of all operating permits, the OSH Act and environmental legislation including local site employment practices.
• Ensuring the site security plan actions are reviewed, actions monitored and closed out by due date (verify TM or HSE)
• Update, analyze trends and report HSE KPIs for the depot and making recommendations based on trend analysis to the depot manager to mitigate the trend risk.
• SPA to ensure that task observations are carried out and gaps identified are closed out.
• Assure that safety stand downs and incidents lessons learnt are shared amongst the terminal/depot.
• Participate in project health, safety and environment reviews (PHSER) as required.
• Support Terminal/Depot Manager in preparation of annual safety and legal compliance budget.
• Responsible for monitoring and action of IRIS and Compliance Task Management (CTM) tasks
• Act as a change agent to build a culture of operational excellence within the terminal/depot team by providing leadership, motivation, coaching and mentoring.
• Ensure actions from risk assessment, barrier assurance, audits, self-audits and actions are logged into IRIS, worked to and tracked to closure.
• Ensure compliance with the processes and documentation is done, worked and tracked to closure.
• Participate with relevant experts HAZOP, risk workshops, MAR sessions and ensure that support is given to the depot line managers to track and implement actions.
• Implement and maintain the required depot level health, safety, environmental and compliance GDP’s, GRP’s and SOP’s.
• Maintain IRIS, CTM, DMS, share points, task procedures, business and safety critical reviews and controlled HSE documents.
• Develop and maintain Crisis Management and Emergency Response implementation and maintenance of GDP 4.6 001 and 002
• Track and advise the terminal/depot managers on all verification requirements and actions in terms of CoW, Self-Verification and other STP’s;
• Maintain and train staff in all fire pre-plans and ensure the plans are reviewed regular Implement the high value learning (HVL) actions as may be determined from time to time.
• Perform health and safety induction for drivers loading at terminal for bp.

Education

• Minimum of matric/Grade 12 level education, with a Safety, Quality or Environmental qualification essential
• Minimum of 5 years operations experience (depot preferred
• Previous experience in the fuel, chemical or related industry
• Understanding of HSE, environmental and quality legislation
• Experience in crisis management.