Safety Officer     

Responsibilities

- Provide Specialist Health and Safety Services to Health, Safety and Environment department for PMC.
- Anticipate, identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.
- Develop hazard control designs, methods and procedures. Implement, administer and advise others on hazard controls and hazard control programs.
- Measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of hazard controls and hazard control programs.
- Participate in and lead investigations, risk analyses, and hazard analyses.
- Advise and assist supervisor and managers in developing or interpreting criteria, regulations, guidelines, policies, etc, as related to the protection of employees and the public.
- Anticipate, identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.


Requirements

Anticipate, identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices.

1. Developing methods for:
a. Anticipating and predicting hazards from experience, historical data and other information sources.
b. Identifying and recognizing hazards in existing or future systems, equipment, products, software, facilities, processes, operations and procedures during their expected life.
c. Evaluating and assessing the probability and severity of loss events and accidents which may result from actual or potential hazards.

2. Applying these methods and conducting hazard analyses and interpreting results.

3. Reviewing, with the assistance of specialists where needed, entire systems, processes, and operations for failure modes, causes and effects of the entire system, process or operation and any sub-systems or components due to:
a. System, sub-system, or component failures.
b. Human error.
c. Incomplete or faulty decision making, judgments or administrative actions.
d. Weaknesses in proposed or existing policies, directives, objectives or practices.

4. Reviewing, compiling, analyzing and interpreting data from accident and loss event reports and other sources regarding injuries, illnesses, property damage, environmental effects or public impacts to:
a. Identify causes, trends and relationships.
b. Ensure completeness, accuracy and validity of required information.
c. Evaluate the effectiveness of classification schemes and data collection methods.
d. Initiate investigations.

5. Providing advice and counsel about compliance with safety, health and environmental laws, codes, regulations and standards.

6. Investigate actual or potential worker or public exposures to hazardous agents due to the Corporation´s activities. Prepare reports on the result of such studies.

7. Conducting research studies of existing or potential safety and health problems and issues.

8. Determining the need for surveys and appraisals that help identify conditions or practices affecting safety and health, including those which require the services of specialists such as physicians, health physicists, industrial hygienists, fire protection engineers, design and process engineers, ergonomists, risk managers, environmental professionals, psychologists, and others.

9. Assessing environments, tasks and other elements to ensure that physiological and psychological capabilities, capacities and limits of humans are not exceeded.

Develop hazard control designs, methods, procedures and programs.

10. Formulating and prescribing engineering or administrative controls, preferably before exposures, accidents, and loss events occur, to:
a. Eliminate hazards and causes of exposures, accidents and loss events.
b. Reduce the probability or severity of injuries, illnesses, losses or environmental damage from potential exposures, accidents, and loss events when hazards cannot be eliminated.

11. Developing methods which integrate safety performance into the goals, operations and productivity of organizations and their management and into systems, processes, and operations or their components.

12. Developing safety and health procedures and standards.

13. Consulting with and advising individuals and participating on teams:
a. Engaged in planning, design, development and installation or implementation of systems or programs involving hazard controls.
b. Engaged in planning, design, development, fabrication, testing, packaging and distribution of products or services regarding safety requirements and application of safety principles which will maximize product safety.

14. Staying current with technological developments, laws, regulations, standards, codes, products, methods, and practices related to hazard controls.

Implementation, administer and advise others on hazard controls and hazard control programs.

15. Preparing reports which communicate valid and comprehensive recommendations for hazard controls which are based on analysis and interpretation of accident, exposure, loss event and other data.

16. Using written and graphic materials, presentations and other communication media to recommend hazard controls and hazard control policies, procedures and programs to decision-making personnel.

17. Advising others about hazards, hazard controls, relative risk and related safety matters when they are communicating with the media, community and public.

18. Managing and implementing hazard controls and hazard control programs which are within the duties of the individual´s professional safety position.

Measure, audit and evaluate the effectiveness of hazard controls and hazard control programs.

19. Establishing and implementing techniques which involve risk analysis, cost, cost-benefit analysis, work sampling, loss rate and similar methodologies, for periodic and systematic evaluation of hazard control and hazard control program effectiveness.

20. Developing methods to evaluate the costs and effectiveness of hazard controls and programs and measure the contribution of components of systems, organizations, processes and operations toward the overall effectiveness.

21. Providing results of evaluation assessments, including recommended adjustments and changes to hazard controls or hazard control programs, to individuals or organizations responsible for their management and implementation.

22. Directing, developing, or helping to develop management accountability and audit programs which assess safety performance of entire systems, organizations, processes and operations or their components and involve both deterrents and incentives.

23. Perform other duties as required.