Safety Officer

Role & responsibilities

• Advise and assist the factory management in the fulfillment of its obligations, statutory or otherwise, concerning the prevention of personal injuries and the maintenance of a safe working environment.
• Advise the concerned departments in planning and organizing measures necessary for the effective control of personal injuries.
• Advice on safety aspects in all job studies, and to carry out detailed job safety studies of selected jobs.
• Check and evaluate the effectiveness of the action taken or proposed to be taken to prevent personal injuries.
• Advice on matters relating to plant safety inspections.
• Carry out plant safety inspections in order to observe the physical conditions of work and the work practices and procedures followed by workers, and to tender advice on measures to be adopted for removing the unsafe physical conditions and preventing unsafe actions by workers.
• Tender advice on matters relating to reporting and investigation of industrial accidents and occupational diseases.
• Investigate accidents.
• Investigate the cases of occupational diseases contracted and dangerous occurrences.
• Advice on the maintenance of such records as are necessary relating to accidents, dangerous occurrences, and occupational diseases.
• Promote the setting up of safety committees and act as advisor and convener to such committees;
• Organize in association with the concerned departments of the factory campaigns, competitions, contests, and other activities, which will develop and maintain the interest of the workers in establishing and maintaining safe conditions of work and procedures.
• Design and conduct either independently or in collaboration with the training department of the factory, suitable training and educational programmes for the prevention of personal injuries.