Construction Workplace Safety & Health Officer (WSHO)

Civil Construction Workplace Safety & Health Officer

(LTA project experience)

Support the organization quality assurance, communicate project safety quality strategy, perform internal & external quality expectations, and comply with all relevant standards, regulations, licenses, and certifications.

Drive & monitor environmental health and safety policies.

Provide advice on safety, protection, and carry out audits to ensure organization and government standards on environmental health and safety are met.

Work closely with Superior & project manager to implement, oversee, and adapt policies and programs to improve the organization’s environment and safety performance, ensure it complies with current and future regulations and standards, and protect its reputation.

Key Activities

1. Manage the environment, health, and safety activities to ensure compliance with external EHS regulations and standards, and internal environmental policies and management systems (Activities include: monitor environmental performance, identify risks or areas for improvement, conduct safety audits, on-site inspection to identify workplace hazards, unsafe equipment, work practices/conditions, investigate environmental/safety incidents, prepare reports and recommendations).
2. Implement, drive & monitor waste management programs.
3. Develop and deliver EHS training programs.
4. Manage relationships with internal and external parties.
5. Monitor and evaluate the organization overall EHS performance to identify recurring problems, research, evaluate, and provide recommendations.
6. Provide technical expertise and advice on EHS issues to managers, teams, and supervisors.
7. Lead, direct, and evaluate the safety team to ensure effective and professional performance.
8. Support the Project Manager in the overall implementation, maintenance, and continual improvement of the ISO 14001 Environmental Management System and OHASAS 18001 Workplace Safety and Health Management System.
9. Ensure team conducts regular EHS inspections and maintains EHS inspection records.
10. Collate data from EHS inspection failures by EHS personnel, MOM & NEA summons/court orders/demerit points, EHS incidents and accidents, etc., to perform data analysis for problem-solving and continual improvement.
11. Execute regular WSH Committee Meetings, and initiate action plans and corrective/preventive actions on EHS deviations/violations. Act as Secretary of such meetings and maintain minutes.
12. Promote EHS awareness on site through EHS Promotional Programs like Mass Tool Box Meetings, EHS Exhibitions, Emergency Drills, etc., with the support of the WSH Committee Chairman (Project Manager) and other WSH Committee Members.
13. Generate corrective and preventive action requests for EHS violations/deviations to the responsible site personnel/sub-contractor and monitor the effectiveness of undertaken EHS corrective and preventive actions.
14. Administer the site-specific Project EHS Management System, and identify required changes or updates to this system, if any, to the EHS and Project Manager.
15. Lead the investigation of incidents/accidents on site and perform root cause analysis with recommendations on corrective and preventive actions.
16. Ensure workers, sub-contractors, and other interested parties are briefed on approved Safe work procedures/practices prior to the start of the said works by means of Site Safety Orientation Test, Tool Box Meetings, or other alternative training.
17. Ensure all plant, machinery, and equipment have valid inspection and test certificates by the Approved Person or Authorized Examiner.
18. Recommend "STOP WORK ORDER" to the Project Manager on critical EHS failures that could lead to fatalities, ill health or disease outbreak to workers and neighbors, and massive damages to properties.
19. Enforce EHS requirements on site by proposing imposition of EHS administrative charges to the Project Manager on workers and sub-contractors who commit EHS violations.
20. Obtain and maintain copies of required PE design drawings & calculations for EHS-related temporary structures/accesses/facilities for the purpose of monitoring and inspections.
21. Be properly trained in EHS Policy, Objectives, impact/risk assessment, relevant safe work procedures/operational control procedures, management programme, applicable legal and other requirements.
22. Other work-related duties assigned by superior or management.