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About the Role
Responsible for identifying safety hazards, conducting fire drills, supervising security, and training staff on safety protocols and emergency procedures.
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Responsibilities
- Identify potential safety or fire hazards and recommend corrective actions.
- Conduct fire drills and participate in fire prevention programs.
- Supervise security rounds to protect buildings and grounds.
- Respond to fire alarms and coordinate with fire department.
- Write incident and accident reports.
- Provide training and explain work instructions to subordinate Fire and Safety Officers.
- Conduct OSH inspections and risk assessments.
- Ensure compliance with OSHMS and participate in audits.
Requirements
- Experience in fire and safety, risk assessment, and OSH management
- Knowledge of OSHAD SF requirements and JCI accreditation
- Ability to conduct training and supervise security personnel
Full Job Posting
Key Responsibilities
- Identifies potential safety or fire hazards; takes action or makes recommendations to eliminate hazard.
- Assures that fire extinguishers, smoke detectors, fire alarms, sprinkler system and fire hydrants are in operating condition; conducts fire drills and participates in fire prevention programs.
- Conducts or participates in employee safety and accident prevention programs.
- Supervise the security rounds in order to protect the buildings and grounds against trespassing, theft, and vandalism.
- Apprehends persons suspected of theft, vandalism, or trespassing; contacts police and detains suspect until police arrive.
- Responds to all fire alarms; determines whether a fire exists; attempts to extinguish fire and contacts fire department.
- Writes incident and accident reports and maintains a record of activities.
- Performs related work as assigned.
Additional Job Duties
- Assures safety coverage for an assigned shift by scheduling assignments and overseeing the work In House security personnel.
- Provides training and explains work instructions to subordinate Fire and Safety Officers.
- Plans, develops and conducts employee safety, fire prevention and accident prevention programs.
- Regularly performs safety and security activities recognized as the most complex and difficult.
- Actively participate in JCI accreditation project.
OSH Roles and Responsibilities General
- Comply with reasonable OSH instructions, policies and safe working procedures.
- Use of appropriate personal protective equipment and safety systems.
- Be familiar with emergency and evacuation procedures.
- Not willfully or recklessly endanger anyone’s health and safety.
- Assist with the preparation of risk assessments.
- Report OSH Hazards, incidents, Near misses and issues.
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycling of waste as much as possible.
- Attend all OSH Trainings, awareness programs and mock drills.
- Participates in the OSHMS audits, inspections, ensuring standards are maintained.
Specific OSH Facilitator FMS / Fire and Safety Officer
- Reports to the EHSMS Dept./Quality and have the immediate control of the workplace in the event of any emergencies/incidents/accidents.
- Maintain and conduct periodic checks & tests of all safety equipment such as firefighting, emergency equipment and the fire system, signages and plans.
- Ensuring FMS staff are adequately trained to perform their work safely.
- Ensure regular workplace OSH inspections are conducted.
- Ensure appropriate hazard identification and risk assessment activities are recorded and maintained.
- Ensures that all contractors working in NMCSH Al Ain premises have undergone OSHMS induction before commencing work.
- Inspects Contractor work activities during any renovation and construction activities.
- Conduct Joint OSH risk assessment with contractor and communicate to the relevant party.
- Maintain and implement the management of contractors related to OSHAD SF requirements.
- Ensure that annually OSH Competency Assessment is conducted for all departmental staff.
OSHMS Committee
- Oversee and direct the planning, coordination, development, implementation, monitoring of implementation and compliance of and with NMCSH OSHMS.
- Evaluate and assess the existing conditions, operations, and practices at NMCSH to determine the impact of and general compliance with OSH.
- Perform risk assessments to identify and generate improvement opportunities.
- Propose and review OSH program budget, resources, staffing plan, program and staff objectives.
- Review quarterly OSH reports, OSH incident reports and annual independent external NMCSH OSH.
- Review and approve the internal audits/inspection plan of OSH and an independent external audit on an annual basis.
- Review the OSH performance and analysis the action plan/root cause if required.
- Authorize the change before implementation and/or startup.
- Report to Senior Management the status and progress of the development, implementation, monitoring and compliance on NMCSH OSH requirements at least once per year.
OSH Investigators, Team Member Roles and Responsibilities
- Ensure as soon as practicable following the occurrences, shall collect the statements of witnesses and other relevant to the occurrence.
- Maintain a timeline of events, Include dates and names on initial report.
- Instructs others if conducting case finding or active/enhanced surveillance.
- Ensure an initial written report of the incident is submitted to Team Leader within assigned timeframe.
- Carryout case investigation activities as delegated by the Team Leader.
- Provide daily status report of outstanding and completed investigations to the Team Leader.
- Complete OSH investigation and reporting forms.
- Ensure to comply with roles and responsibility defined in NMCSH 013.ADM EHS P006 12 HAZARD, NEAR MISS AND INCIDENT REPORTING POLICY.
OSH Internal Auditor
- Ensure internal audit is effective to improve its OSH performance.
- Ensure to conduct OSHMS internal audit as per OSHAD SF/NMCSH Al Ain requirements.
Additional Duties/Responsibilities (related to ADHICS)
- Adhere to information systems policies and procedures as required by Health Care Organization.
- Follow security and privacy policies and procedures to the use of networks, including intranet and Internet.
- Follow confidentiality and security measures to protect electronic health information.
- Maintain data integrity and validity within an information system.
- Report any possible breaches of confidentiality in accordance with organizational policies.
- Apply departmental and organizational data and information system security policies.
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