Manager - Safety

Objective:

Title:

Function:

Work Location:

Job Responsibilities:

Safety Culture Building

• Analyze behaviors of the people in plant toward safety and devise strategies to change behaviors
• Lead in actions on disciplinary issues
• Devise site reward & recognition schemes to promote Safe Behaviors

Training

• Decide safety training strategy for the site and coach Safety Exec / HR team in preparing safety training calendar for Workmen, Execs, Managers & contractual employees
• Conduct training of necessary stakeholders in areas of Safety Standards, Work Permit Systems, Risk Assessment, Emergency Plan

• Devise a system & allocate responsibility to conduct safety briefing to all contractual employees

Statutory Compliances

• Responsible for overall Safety related Statutory compliances for the site
• Dealing with Factory inspector and building positive rapport
• Prepare a list of all Statutory Requirements related to Safety , allocate responsibility & develop a mechanism for tracking
• Prepare a site Safety Committee as per Factorys Act and conduct routine meetings

Internal Audits

• Coach Safety Execs to develop a calendar for conducting Safety Audits in plant, allocate responsibility & track compliances
• Coach Safety Exec to develop Safety audit checklists in co-ordination with functional stakeholders
• Highlight key audit findings to site leadership and get the audit gaps closed with functional stakeholders

Safety Risk Assessment /Emergency Plan

• Train the functional stakeholders on various Risk Assessment tools such as FMEA, CTI/THA, Location /Equipment Risk Assessment, What-If Analysis, HAZOP
• Hand hold the functional stakeholders to conduct Risk Assessment and ensure highest quality of the same
• Coach Safety Exec to prepare site Emergency plan
• Actively participate in Emergency Mock-Drills as per requirement
• Annual review of Risk Assessment & Emergency Plan

Hazard Identification & Mitigation / Accident Investigation

• Coach Safety Exec to devise a system of spotting and reporting Hazards and mitigation of same
• Provide necessary resources for hazard mitigation
• Ensure compliance to Accident reporting and Investigation protocol
• Coach team in investigation process

Safety Budget / Capex

• Prepare Safety budget for the factory and ensure spends are within budget
• Lead in deciding infrastructure /other Safety related Capex projects
• Raise Capital Proposals for Safety related projects

Reports To:

• Factory/ Plant Manager
• Safety Exec /TL
• Production Mgr/TL/Execs
• Maintenance Manager /TL/Execs
• QA Manager/TL/Execs
• HR Manager /TL/Execs
• Shipping Manager/TL/Execs
• Stores Manager/TL/Execs
• Labour contractor
• Workmen

External Customers:

• Corporate Safety manager
• Factory inspector other Gov. bodies

Job Requirements:

Qualifications:

Experience:

Preference to FMCG/Food /Beverage Industry

Functional Skills:

• Must have sound knowledge about Statutory requirement related to Safety
• Should be from FMCG /Food/Beverage background
• Must have sound knowledge about Risk Assessment techniques CTI/THA, FMEA, HAZOP, What-if, Location/Equipment Risk Assessment
• Must have sound knowledge on Emergency procedures
• Should have hands on experience in drafting SOP’s , WI
• Must have hands on experience in conducting Safety Audits
• Must have knowledge about budgeting and Capex systems
• Must have sound knowledge of Safety Hardware and systems in factories
• Must have sound knowledge of OHSAS 18001

Travel: Negligible