Safety & Health Officer

Job title: Safety & Health Officer

Company: Intercontinental Hotel Mauritius

Job description: Job Description

• Monitor workplace health and safety risks and advice workers and managers on how to minimise or eliminate these risks.
• To carry out all the activities of the Health and Safety as per hotel standards and procedures.
• Ensure that the hotel complies with Health and Safety laws of the country.
• Undertake workplace safety inspections.
• Ensure that health and safety measures are met before and when new equipment is installed or workplace alterations are made.
• Educate and inform team members and managers to help them identify problems and find solutions.
• Help design health and safety monitoring systems.
• Check the efficiency of health and safety management systems.
• Develop emergency procedures (bomb threat/fire) and coordinate emergency teams.
• To properly maintain personnel files and keep them under lock and key.

Duties and responsibilities under Team Member Relationship

• Work with team members to manage, monitor and improve health and safety standards in their workplaces.
• To monitor management/team members relations and mediate upon request by superior.
• To help superiors investigating dissatisfaction from and about, employees regarding employment conditions as regards to health and safety.
• Undertake health and safety checks for team members of the hotel

• Give counselling and advice on health matters, in conjunction with the Director of Human Resources and Nurse.
• To establish and maintain continuous and fruitful contacts with government bodies (Ministry of Health) and other related companies/organisations.
• Having an eye for details to improve quality of service and means of control, by continuously being creative and taking initiative.
• To give active support to other members of the Human Resources Department whenever required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIESA registered Safety and Health Officer employed in compliance with section 30 shall –

• Carry out regular occupational safety and health audits to identify risks to safety and health;
• Assess the need for preventive measures to safeguard the safety and health of employees and any other person not in the employment of the employer;
• Advise the employer in writing on practicable measures and appropriate techniques to be implemented to minimise any risk in any process in the undertaking of his employer;
• design and implement appropriate training programmes to meet the requirements of this Act and any other enactment dealing with occupational safety and health, and keep proper records thereof;
• review any measure, method, procedure or technique adopted to ensure occupational safety and health at intervals of not more than 2 years or at such intervals as the Permanent Secretary may direct in writing and keep proper records thereof;
• recommend in writing to the employer appropriate occupational safety and health programmes, where the circumstances so justify;
• develop effective communication systems on occupational safety and health between the employer and any employee;
• inspect all places of work under his responsibility at least once every month and record his findings in the register provided by the employer;
• exercise adequate supervision to ensure the effective implementation of arrangements made, and preventive measures taken, by the employer; and
• enquire into

-all complaints made by an employee;-occupational accidents and dangerous occurrences at any place of work and make a report thereon

• And recommend in writing any safety and health measures to be implemented by the employer.

About Intercontinental Hotel Mauritius

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Location: Pamplemousses, Mauritius

Date posted: Thu, 16 May 2024 03:46:46 GMT

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