Senior Occupational Hygiene Technologist at Anglo American

Job Description

As Senior Occupational Hygiene Technologist your responsibilities will include:

• Performing occupational health risk assessments (under guidance of the appointed Occupational Hygienist) and recommend on controls for risk mitigation.
• Conduct surveys of workplaces with potential occupational health hazards in the form of chemical hazards, physical hazards, ergonomic hazards, biological hazards or psychological hazards.
• Evaluate and quantify the levels of the different hazards present by making use of specialized equipment and instrumentation.
• Organize the taking of samples for water and airborne pollutants, noise and thermal stressors. And identify risks and controls in the public health and occupational hygiene monitoring programmes.
• To analyse findings correctly and to compare findings to recognized national as well as international standards where available.
• Study in depth occupational hygiene impacts. Formulate and submit recommendations for the correction of hazardous exposures through the correct application of the hierarchy of controls, improved housekeeping, and substitution of hazardous substances with less hazardous substances, isolation of processes, which are the sources of hazardous substances and as a last possible resort, providing PPE.
• Assist in regularly communicating progress of Operation against occupational hygiene targets and objectives via a design communication, supervisory and management forum to all concerned.
• Implement and maintain applicable occupational hygiene Regulations, Acts, Codes of practice and standards.
• Encourage co-operation and teamwork between maintenance and production personnel regarding occupational hygiene matters.
• Implement and maintain applicable occupational hygiene Regulations, Acts, Codes of practice and standards.
• Liaise with Risk Management team and Occupational Hygienist for Operation risk assessment.

This role is in the Project and SHE - Health OPS department at a Band 7 level reporting to the Occupational Hygienis

Qualifications

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Degree or Diploma in Occupational Hygiene, Environmental Health or equivalent or,
• At least three subjects completed of the Chamber of Mines Certificate in Mine Environmental Control. (A Completed Chamber of Mines Certificate in Mine Environmental Control will be advantageous.)
• Registered as an associate with the Mine Ventilation Society and/or registered with the Southern African Institute for Occupational Hygiene [SAIOH] on an Occupational Hygiene Technologist Level
• Occupational Hygiene Legal knowledge will be advantageous.

Experience

• At least 5 years of Occupational Hygiene experience in a mining and/or processing environment

Knowledge And Skills

• Computer literate, with specific reference to the MS Office Suite (MS Excel, Power Point and Word)
• Communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• A valid drivers licence