Specialist Occupational Health at Sasol

Purpose of Job

• Address human health risks, identify, qualify, quantify, analyze, and interpret these risks to determine and prescribe relevant measures for their removal, mitigation, or containment.
• Implement standards and requirements to manage health risks, ensuring acceptable risk management by determining, prescribing, and signing off on relevant measures to remove, mitigate, or contain these risks.
• Monitor the implementation of control measures, manage identified health issues (both expected and unexpected), and provide thought leadership on health throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Accountabilities

• Integrate Sasol's Group Health Model into Projects, Engineering, and Environment.
• Ensure adherence to the One Sasol SHE Excellence Approach health risk management deliverables.
• Determine and interpret project-specific relevant South African and institutional (IFC, WHO) health laws, and integrate them into requirements, prescriptions, and project-relevant country-specific health rules, regulations, and laws.
• Implement Sasol's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
• Anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and compile requirements for health risk management in Projects and Engineering projects, and include these aspects in the appropriate quality management documents and systems.
• Perform in-house Health Risk Assessments for the Projects and Engineering environment and oversee the implementation of recommended measures to ensure effective control of the identified occupational stressors.
• Assess, analyze, and interpret Health Risk Assessment data and perform a Health Impact Assessment that addresses risks and implications for the project.
• Ensure that Health Specification is provided to projects in the construction phase.
• Ensure that the SHE Plan from service providers incorporates the management of health risks and conforms to the site health requirements.
• Conduct inspections/audits, compile reports, and discuss findings/deviations with the projects, providing recommendations.
• Periodically review the standards of health-related matters in projects from inception to completion.
• Contribute to employee wellness and create, establish, and maintain partnership relations with service providers and business owners.
• Provide second-level assurance on all projects regarding the applicable aspects of health risk management.
• Benchmark, network, and stay abreast of developments and best practices in Occupational Health.
• Apply evidence-based SHE practices that align with set standards to ensure safe operations.

Formal Education

• Health related University Bachelor's Degree (NQF Level 7) 
• Registered with a professional body as guided by individual allied health professions.

Working Experience

• Experience: 3+ relevant years in Occupational Health

Required Personal and Professional Skills

• BC_Collaborates
• TC_SHE Policy and Strategic Objectives
• BC_Organizational Savvy
• TC_SHE Professional Training and Behaviours
• BC_Business Insight
• TC_Human Factors and SHE Culture
• BC_Plans and Aligns
• TC_Safety Management Techniques
• TC_Safety Principles
• BC_Action Oriented

Closing Date

26 February 2025