Health & Safety Advisor - Mining

If you're a Health & Safety Advisor, keen to extend your experience across the mining sector, this could be your ideal next role!

The position works to provide Health and Safety (H&S) services and support to the Macraes mine site, ensures site compliance with relevant H&S legislation and regulatory authority requirements and works with H&S management, to achieve consistent and effective implementation of the H&S Management Systems and initiatives.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Management of safety in accordance with the H&S Management System.
• Assist in coordination of Macraes Mine emergency preparedness e.g. evacuation drills, fire equipment and fire drills in conjunction with site emergency response coordinator.
• Assist and facilitate accident, incident and hygiene investigations and coordinate incident report records management.
• Carry out risk assessments as required and implement systems to manage identified risks.
• Assist and carry out on site Occupational Hygiene monitoring as required.
• Ensuring the facilitation of drug and alcohol testing as schedules dictate.
• Produce weekly and monthly safety reports for the mine and maintain safety statistics.
• Provide weekly staff updates on current health and safety issues with an educational focus on health and wellbeing and fitness for work.
• Monitor, record, and audit safety equipment such as eye wash stations, harnesses, fire extinguishers and self-rescuers and gas monitors.
• Conduct internal audits as per the site auditing schedule.
• Develop and implement proactive safety inspections, housekeeping projects, and other safety initiatives
• Maintain the health and safety database INX to track incidents, hazards, task observation etc.
• Support the delivery of training programs, coordinating education of site procedures.