Team Leader - Safety

Job Description

DEPARTMENT: Supply Chain - Safety

JOB OBJECTIVE:     To drive Safety Initiatives  in plant and ensure compliances to Company & Statutory safety requirements for the site and build a sustainable culture of Safety

REPORTING TO: Factory Manager  /Plant Manager/Corporate Safety Manager

KEY STAKEHOLDERS

Internal Stakeholders:   

•    Factory/ Plant Manager

•    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 Stakeholders:    

•    Corporate Safety manager

 

Job Responsibilities

Safety Culture Building

•    Analyze behaviors of the people in plant toward safety and support site leadership to devise strategies to change behaviors 

•    Devise site reward & recognition schemes to promote Safe Behaviors 

Training    

•    Decide safety training strategy for the site and  prepare 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 Safety related Statutory compliances for the site

•    Prepare a list of all Statutory Requirements related to Safety , allocate responsibility & develop a mechanism for tracking

•    Prepare a site Safety Committee as per Factory’s Act and conduct routine meetings  

Internal Audits

•    Develop a calendar for conducting Safety Audits in plant, allocate responsibility & track compliances

•    Develop Safety audit checklists in co-ordination with functional stakeholders

•    Highlight key audit findings to site leadership and get the audit gasps closed with functional stakeholders

•    Maintain necessary documents

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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

•    Prepare site Emergency plan

•    Lead  Emergency Mock-Drills as per requirement

•    Annual review of Risk Assessment & Emergency Plan

•    Maintain necessary records

Hazard Identification & Mitigation / Accident Investigation 

•    Devise a system of spotting and reporting Hazards and mitigation of same

•    Ensure compliance to Accident reporting and Investigation protocol

•    Participate in Accident  investigation process 

Job Requirement

Education: Minimum B. Tech /BE -Mechanical/ Industrial / Production/Chemical Engineering + Diploma in Industrial Safety

Work Experience; Minimum 5 years in factory. Minimum 2 years as  Safety Professional

Preference to FMCG/Food /Beverage Industry

BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES & SKILLS

•    Leadership qualities

•    Passionate about Safety

•     Influencing Skills

•    Excellent communication skills

•    Objective Analytical Thinking

•    Team Commitment

•    High Standard of work Ethics

•    Developing & Inspiring others 

FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES & 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

KEY RESULT AREAS    

•    Developing Sustainable culture of Safety

•    Compliance to Statutory requirements

•    Improvement in Safety Leading indicators scores

•    Reduction in Accidents /Incidents/Injuries

LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY: English, Hindi, Local Language to be specified

 IT Knowledge:Good Knowledge in MS office applications

 Travel:    Negligible