Safety officer is the one who looks after health and safety aspects in an organization. They hold the responsibility of monitoring and evaluating employee health and safety at the workplace, making sure the workplace is safe, plan and recommend health and safety measures, anticipate and control the hazardous situation, maintain co-operation in the organization on every aspect of health and safety.
Employer of the organisation owes the responsibility of providing safe atmosphere at the workplace, providing appropriate methodologies for safe activities, as employees plays vital part in equation their safety matters at workplace. Every employee should have knowledge on basic health and safety training and particular training for special tasks.
Safety officer holds responsible for many key aspects in an organization’s environment and health and safety sector. Some of the core duties of occupational health and safety officer are listed below:
Implement Safety Policies
Safety officer should adhere to laws and legal policies in the organization, as they are well versed with health and safety needs and procedures, their duty is to ensure that everyone act in accordance with laws. In case of any misconduct/ activities found in an organization that may lead to a major accident, to avoid such things the primary thing one the safety officer should do is speak up to employees and implement.
Auditing and Inspection
Auditing and inspection in Health Safety Environment are vital terms that has great impact in any organizations. Safety officer do conduct inspections on regular basis to identify potential hazards, making sure whether the workers follow safety procedures in their jobs and so on. Safety officers additionally perform safety audit in organizations in compliance with the company’s policies and standards that keep organization in safe zone and to avoid penalties.
Investigation on Accidents
In case of any minor/ major accident occurs on workplace every single mishaps and near misses should be investigated. Usually investigation procedure consists of start to finish procedure by figuring out the reason for happened incident and to prevent this not happen again in future. Once the auditing is done the safety officer should submit relevant documents on investigates accident and discuss with organization regarding the accident.
Make sure of compliance
Safety officer is the one who is responsible for maintaining compliance standards prescribed for organization regardless of type/size/work nature. As the safety officer stays first when it comes to compliance standards they do update themselves according to the latest changes in the standards and policies over time. They do track on injury logs, near misses and record it for reference which should be submitted when required. Safety officers should ensure that all required standards are visible (as posters/printed format) to workers with the updated latest information. This helps the organization to stay away from fines and creates positive safety culture.
Train Workers
In case of any minor/ major accident occurs on workplace every single mishaps and near misses should be investigated. Usually investigation procedure consists of start to finish procedure by figuring out the reason for happened incident and to prevent this not happen again in future. Once the auditing is done the safety officer should submit relevant documents on investigates accident and discuss with organization regarding the accident.
Eligibility to become safety officer
Delegates working in organizations in need for health and safety concerns, Candidate who urges to get into occupational health and safety sector can enroll themselves with Green World Group’s health and safety courses in KSA, helps them to get the eligibility to become safety officer/safety engineer/safety practitioner, etc. NEBOSH IGC in Saudi Arabia will be a perfect health and safety course for beginners to get into health and safety-related jobs in KSA.
Green World Group, the leading HSE institute and accredited NEBOSH Gold Learning Partner facilitates NEBOSH IGC course via tutor-led virtual online live training classes that helps professionals and students to get learning access from anywhere around the world. On the completion of this course successfully one can get eligible to look up for jobs in the health and safety sector.
