DHL Express is calling for qualified individuals to apply for the Health and Safety Field Support role located in Johannesburg, Gauteng.
Position: Health and Safety Field Support
Job Type: Permanent
Category: Operations
EX25003NI
Location: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Role Context
The Health and Safety Coordinator will provide Health and Safety technical advice, analysis, information, and recommendations, as well as overseeing business practices to ensure that all health, safety, and environmental regulations are followed by SSA Countries and the SSA Express Regional Office, and that DHL Express SSA complies with internal and external health and safety requirements. This is a critical role for the DHL Express SSA Region in supporting and implementing the DHL Express Global Health & Safety Strategy.
The primary goal of this role is to coordinate, analyse, and maintain SSA DHL Express activities and data pertaining to all aspects of health and safety. This role entails providing health and safety services to both the Cape Town and JHB Regional Offices, as well as collecting and consolidating data from all SSA countries, creating reports, generating statistical data, and analysing trends in health and safety performance.
Key responsibilities
- Maintaining compliance and ensure legal appointments are up to date, legal systems, safety registers/ checklists are conducted, health and safety talks and committee meetings are conducted as required, contractors are managed
- Enforcing the Health and Safety strategy, policies and standards in both CT and JHB Offices
- Compile and review operational site risk assessments as and when required.
- Utilise risk assessment results to facilitate the implementation of preventative and corrective measures.
- Ensure that all non-conformances are timeously reported, investigated and attended to within the prescribed time.
- Preparation, implementation and attainment of the ISO45001 & ISO14001 certification in future;
- Driving the behavioural safety program.
- Assisting SSA Countries Health & Safety teams by managing and analysing data related to SSA DHLE Health & Safety performance.
- Make recommendations to help develop effective strategic, tactical, or operational plans and programs.
- Provide efficient, dependable, and high-quality data for scheduled and ad hoc reporting requirements – weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annually.
- Data collection and report development on critical risk management (and the effectiveness of implemented controls).
- Providing assistance and coaching to key internal stakeholders in order to improve the integrity of data input for H&S reporting.
- Risk profiling the SSA Express Countries using trending metrics, statistical analysis, and industry best practices.
- Develop, test, and document robust analytic models for identifying trends and tracking performance in order to facilitate and provide evidence for continuous improvement.
- Contributing to the development of robust and consistent metrics, including lead and lag performance indicators, to provide effective and consistent tracking of H&S performance against objectives.
- Making use of continuous improvement tools and techniques to help improve processes and increase the efficiency and effectiveness of H&S governance and reporting frameworks.
- Maintenance of health and safety information management systems in accordance with DHL Express Global processes
- Support the injury management and involved parties concerned to ensure accurate data reporting and privacy.
- Providing specialist training and support for implementing key components of the SSA DHL Express H&S strategy as they relate to systems and process, (including injury and incident management).
- A key component of the role will be engaging with business users (and often senior management) to convey key requirements (often technical) in a manner which the recipient can understand and rapidly buy into.
Minimum Requirements
Education & experience
- Proven experience as Health & Safety coordinator or similar.
- In-depth knowledge of OSH guidelines and practices.
- Experience in reporting and developing policies.
- Experience in implementing OSH training programs.
- Proficient in MS Office.
- Excellent communication and advisory skills.
- Diligent with an analytical mind.
- Diploma/Degree in Health and Safety or relevant field.
We are looking forward to your application.
How To Apply
Apply Here: Health and Safety Field Support