Officer - Health & Safety

Health and Safety officers should be deployed to provide competent safety advice and the best practical guidance to all departments. Officers shall routinely visit all areas to check on going work and shall also take action to stop work and follow up unsafe acts and conditions. Report on critical issues concerning Plant H&S Supervisor.

Responsibilities:

• Field follows up of corporate H&S programs.
• Conduct Plant Specific Safety Inductions.
• Prepare Safety Alerts/Lessons Learned for all the significant incidents.
• Assess the operational risk in the plant and advise the department concerned
• Participate in accident and incident investigations as required.
• Maintaining and Preparing H&S Statistics for the assigned department.
• Implement/monitor the correct PPE usage (including defects), maintenance and storage
• Provide advice and support to high-risk activities like confined spaces, working at height, work on live equipment, hot work in hazardous areas, critical lifting, etc.
• Monitor the implementation of PTW.
• Manage Department Tracking Tools.
• Support Daily Ops Meeting.
• Support Incident Investigations on WHY tree (RCA).
• Coach and support Ops/Mnt staff on JSA and PTW.
• Conduct joint inspections with Ops Supervisors.
• Review MOCs (management of change documents) as required.
• Develop and share Toolbox Talks Material and H&S Stats on a monthly basis.
• Support HSE meetings (dashboards and presentation).
• Compliance Audit (Noise, Radiation and Heat etc…).
• Support Loss Prevention team in implementing ER Drills.
• Shutdown support (SMPs and RMs) including PTW support.
• Track and following action closure on the portal.
• Physical verification of action closure as required.
• Verify the correct application of isolation procedures
• Monitor the H&S compliance of the contractors
• Ensures H&S legislation, regulations, policies and procedures are well implemented during the Emirates Steel field operations

• Any additional duties/ task requested by the line manager.

Ensure Safety and Regulatory Compliance:

• Support the promotion of a strong safety culture by actively participating in safety initiatives and fostering safe work practices. Assist in managing safety risks, monitoring equipment, and contributing to performance outcomes. Ensure compliance with EHS legislative requirements and the Company’s EHS policies, procedures, and standards among team members and contractors.

• Must have a bachelor's degree in Science or a 3-year technical diploma from a recognized institution (an equivalency certificate is required)

• 2-5 years of experience
• Working knowledge of risk assessment techniques.

• Incident Investigation Root cause analysis.

• Arabic (Preferred)
• English (Essential)

• Reduction in company injury numbers.
• 100% Completion of assigned tasks.
• Reduction in company incidents.
• Increase in near miss reporting across the company.
• Accuracy of health and safety data.

• Investigations completed within time and actions followed up

• Development of Emirates Steel Health & Safety culture.
• Ensure that H & S Department employees meet their objectives.

• 100 % company compliance to related regulatory requirements.