Senior Specialist, Occ Health and Hygiene at Exxaro Resources

PURPOSE:

• To identify and control the impact of health hazards across the group and within the communities in which we operate to as low as reasonably practicable
• To co-ordinate the occupational health and hygiene function by providing strategic specialist support, guidance and oversight to the group’s operations and occupational health and hygienist functions at various operations.
• To provide direct health and hygiene specialist operational support for mines in rehabilitation and closure in line with the Group’s occupational health strategy.
• To create and track a preventative link between occupational health and hygiene through the development of strategies, frameworks and standards.
• To appoint and manage external occupational health and hygiene service providers in line with Exxaro’s minimum standards.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor of Nursing (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Tech Nursing Science (Essential/Minimum or)
• B Tech Occupational Health Nursing (Essential/Minimum or)
• BCur: Nursing Science (Essential/Minimum or)
• Bachelor of Nursing (H) (Essential/Minimum)
• Master of Arts in Nursing Science (Recommended/Desirable)
• Management Development Programme (Recommended/Desirable)

EXPERIENCE: 

• 10-12 years Proven experience in a leadership and operational role within the Occupational Health, Hygiene and Primary Healthcare fields, preferably in the mining, heavy industry, or related sectors.
• Strong understanding of emerging health and hygiene risks in underground and surface mining operations, and within the community.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and executing healthcare related strategies, frameworks, and standards.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams and influence stakeholders at various levels of the organisation.      

Duties & Responsibilities:

Business Performance and Operations:   

• Provide day-to-day occupational health and hygiene operational support for mines in closure
• Coordinate group occupational health and hygiene functions reporting at all sites
• Lead the development of the group wide integrated occupational health hygiene strategy, frameworks, standards and processes, governance, audits and reporting requirements
• Develop service level agreement with external health and hygiene service providers and evaluate implementation of the service level agreements for mines in closure and rehabilitation
• Support manager in assessing risks to health arising from many different factors and refer employees to medical facilities, if required, to ensure employee’s occupational health concerns are identified and addressed
• Execute occupation health and hygiene system implementation and received directives to ensure that all incident data relating to employee health is captured
• Drive the participation of the Company in the implementation of training programs to for compliance with Occupational Health and Hygiene, standards, frameworks and Regulations
• Coordinate the execution and reporting of internal and external audits and facilitate the implementation of corrective action to proactively minimise the impact of occupational health hazards
• Facilitate a group wide implementation of Occupational health and hygiene standards
• Represent the Company at Chamber of Mines hygiene meetings
• Standardize implementation of leading practises and lessons learned across the group
• Support business units in contracting occupational health and hygiene service providers and review all reports submitted by such service providers

Compliance, Governance and Assurance:    

• Provide in-depth analysis on occupational health and hygiene data and in conjunction with other business indicators to continuously improve occupational health standards to monitor compliance to internal and legal/statutory requirements
• Provide an oversight role in implementation of external requirements from all the bodies Exxaro is affiliated with such as, FTSE, SABCOHA, MASOYISE,etc
• Participate and lead tier 2 audits and assist individual business units to prepare for the tier 3 audits.
• Ensure compliance to Mine Health and Safety Act, Group guidelines and Mine standards through external legal compliance audits

Customer, Stakeholder and Client Relationship Management:    

• Provide support to the customer in the development of occupational health and hygiene services framework and processes for central repository management
• Assist in the evaluation of discipline-specific standards, principles and practice to enable planning, design and implementation of safe outcomes that support the business strategy

Effective People Management    

• Manage Senior Occupational Nurse and Occupational Nurses' Key Performance Areas (KPA’s)
• Proactively anticipate future occupational and primary health service requirements
• Draft and implement strategies to optimise staffing and services
• Motivate and inspire staff to excel at their jobs and strive for excellence
• Ensure staff resources are efficiently deployed and staff members undertake appropriate training and development
• Support, coach and mentor direct reports in skills/knowledge development to ensure they have necessary capabilities

Safe and Healthy Work Environment:   

• Provide an oversight role to ensure a healthy environment, safe operations and practices, ensuring compliance with all applicable health and safety policies and procedures in line with set standards
• Encourage and foster a proactive culture that focuses on healthy employees across all operations

Service Management:    

• Execute responsibilities in a manner that is in accordance to guidelines and standards associated with quality service delivery of occupational health and hygiene services
• Deliver responsibilities in a manner that is aligned to the services framework and consistent with customer agreements

Specialised Support :

• Develop and drive implementation of occupational health and hygiene strategy.
• Establish and promote both occupational and primary health care programmes across all group through an approved framework
• Manage the health service providers as per the service level agreements with Exxaro group and operate within professional scope of practice.
• Conduct occupational health and hygiene compliance assessments across Exxaro group
• Develop a framework to manage lifestyle diseases, HIV/AIDS, STI and Tuberculosis programs across the group
• Manage the health statistics across the group and ensure on-time quality reporting to different stakeholders (DoH ODIMWA, Masoyise)
• Standardize health programs across the business and ensure data integrity and confidentiality of medical information.
• Provide input re-diagnosis of occupational diseases and injuries.
• Prepare reports on a monthly and bi-annually to the relevant departments within the group
• Manage outbreak of communicable disease across the group
• Participate and represent Exxaro’s interest at policy development level within the DMRE, DoH, etc
• Manage and monitor medical surveillance and data input in ensuring that all employees are fit for work
• Co-ordinate and create health awareness campaigns for the group and the neighbouring communities.
• Create a strategic linkage between health and hygiene, and develop a proactive approach to occupational health program using technological solutions    
• Partner with HR regarding worker absenteeism to ensure total wellbeing and health of employees
• Partners with HR and facilitate medical incapacity management and employee rehabilitation program
• Assist in the development and implementation of a personal learning and growth plan to ensure continued development
• Monitor occupational health and hygiene performance and provide regular feedback to different committees such OPCO, SAC,SUSCO, Sustainable Impact forum
• Coordinate technical support to the Group on industry best practice and monitoring requirements from the different statutory bodies.
• Investigate and make recommendations on proactive measures in line with industry best practise as and when required.
• Keep abreast of trends and communicate these to the Group to facilitate dialog on industry requirements for risk mitigation
• Give guidance on legal updates to Group and how it would impact on procedural and monitoring requirements specific to Occupational health and hygiene