Senior Specialist - Environment, Health and Safety Officer

• The Senior Environmental Health and Safety Officer is an advanced subject matter expert, responsible for consulting on and implementing Environmental Health, and Safety (EHS) policies, ensuring health and safety conditions in the work environment to prevent harm, injury and illness.
• This role is accountable for instituting controls and remedial measures for hazardous and potentially hazardous conditions or equipment, including those that harm the external environment.
• This role analyzes and designs control for the prevention of occupational diseases, and manages the risk related to the environment and related incident management.

Key Roles and Responsibilities: Creates surveys and assessments to identify hazardous conditions that affect workers, property, the environment and the general public and develop measures to eliminate these. Responsible for surveying and investigating the working conditions, determine the causes, and recommend action that will prevent further incidents or accidents. Provides consulting around the practical steps to ensure compliance to laws and regulations that govern environment, health and safety matters. Responsible for conducting risk assessments and related audits to mitigate organisational liability against relevant laws and regulations. Accountable for new employee health and safety orientation. Responsible for conducting safety training and education programs with existing employees, including demonstrating the use of safety equipment. Co-ordinate and attend related committee meetings. Networks with external stakeholders, including the local authorities, communities, hospitals and disaster management groups to develop maintain and update emergency response plans and procedures. May act evacuation marshal, fire marshal and/or incident coordinator Knowledge, Skills and Attributes: Strong knowledge and understanding of applicable laws, regulations and other legal regulations that govern environment, health and safety in the workplace Display strong influencing ability and interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills Display strong planning, organising and problem-solving ability Strong attention to detail and display the ability to collaborate with a variety of internal and external stakeholders Academic Qualifications and Certifications: Relevant Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification and/or experience Relevant Health, Safety and Environmental certification(s) Required Experience: Advanced active working experience with environment, health and safety issues in a related industry / environment Advanced experience dealing with a variety of stakeholders and influencing decision making to manage business risk Advanced experience dealing with legislators and governing bodies Advanced knowledge of the environmental, health and safety laws, regulations, codes, and standards and their application and interpretation