Position Description
Business Division: CSM AgChem
Department: EHS
Location: Panoli/Jambusar
Position Title: Workplace Safety Lead
Level: Middle Management
Reporting To: Site Workplace Safety Head
Position Purpose
The Safety Lead is responsible for occupational, health and safety management within the site. The role is also responsible for coordinating to upgrade the safety culture and emergency handling capabilities.
Strategic Responsibilities
- Assist Head Site Workplace Safety in fulfillment of safety requirements
- Plan for optimum performance and output from various interfaces with EHS
- Implementation of policies & procedures related to safety & new safety initiatives
Operational Responsibilities
- Take initiatives in the matter of EHS with an objective to upgrade the standards of Occupational Safety protection including generating various checklists/ building up standards
- Maintenance & upgradation of emergency handling facilities/ capabilities and test them through Mock drills, ERT trainings etc.
- Strengthen the systems of training at shop-floor through tool box talk
- Coordinate with other leads in the department to improve visuals within the company
- Ensure physical condition monitoring, unsafe acts, unsafe situations and coordinating with various functions to eliminate them in time-bound fashion
- Implement permit system and other policies & procedures related to safety management
- Organizing safety committee meetings and ensuring implementation of identified meeting output
- Ensuring effective implementation of BBS initiatives
- Monitor Health & Safety Leading and lagging indicators and identify the action plan to achieve the targets
- Timely investigation of incidents, near miss and track for compliance of recommendations closure on time
- Analysis of safety observations, incident/NM trends and work out action plan
Financial Responsibilities
Proposing safety budget and adhering to allocated budget
People Responsibilities
- Ensure safety & high productivity at the workplace
- Facilitate initiatives for training need identification and building requisite skills & competencies through systematic training & skill-upgradation initiatives for the team
- Actively drive, in conjunction with the Senior Management Team, the performance management process of the team
- Recognize & reward excellent performers & affirm key contributions of employees toward the achievement of goals & objectives of the team
- Inspire & motivate employees through demonstrated commitment to PI’s values, vision & mission and active participation in various team engagement activities
- Ensure safety training to employees, contract employees, contractors and visitors to raise awareness level on safety
Education Qualification
M.Sc/B.E. Chemical + PDIS
Work Experience
15-18 years in Environment, Health and Safety department
Industry to be Hired from
Agro-Pharma-Fine-Chemicals
Functional Competencies
- Knowledge and application skills of various national and international legislations/ standards/ guidelines in the field of Occupational Health & Safety
- Knowledge of process safety management & Risk Analysis tools
- Knowledge ISO 45001:2018, RC guidelines
- Hands-on experience of handling emergency situations in a process plant
- Understanding on statutory and regulatory requirement applicable to chemical industry and experience dealing with govt. bodies
Interaction Complexity and Team Work
Interaction
Frequency
Purpose of Interaction
Internal:
EHS Head
As required for the business
Discuss Technical / administrative and system related issues
External:
Legal authorities – DISH, Other statutory authorities
As required for the business
Factory inspector /legal issues