EHS Environmental Health and Safety Roles & Responsibilities
EHS Officer means?
EHS roles and responsibilities are about safety practices of environmental, health, safety EHS managers, specialists, supervisors and officers. They periodically inspect workplace to eliminate potential hazards such as, wrong working methods, high noise levels, contaminated drinking water & air quality or toxic chemicals etc.
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EHS Roles and Responsibilities
Their major role of EHS manager or office is to prevent and eliminate injury and sickness to the employees. They assist companies to comply with safety laws in systematic and organized approach. They periodically inspect workplace and machinery to minimize or eliminate potential hazards such as, wrong working methods, high noise levels, contaminated drinking water, polluted air quality or toxic chemicals etc. EHS managers or officers play important role in terms of safety of employees.
What does Environment Health and Safety Managers do?
Environmental health and safety (EHS) officers inspect and monitor environment, machineries and processes to ensure safety as per government rules and regulations and industry standards. They have knowledge of new government’s rules and regulations that helps workers health as well as safety.
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Their most important goal is to protect Employees, customers and the environment at any cost.
They identify potential biological, chemical and radiological materials and also collecting sample of them and analyze. Participate in Environmental monitoring programs and inspections as applicable to work situation. Environmental consultants help them to achieve their goals as their role and environmental health and safety officer’s role is more or less is the same related to environment.
EHS managers or officers also conduct periodic inspection of hazards and recommend changes in products, machineries or processes to protect workers.
Environment health and safety EHS specialist conduct in-house training programs to educate their employees about safety. They also investigate accidents of the past and identify their causes and find new ways to avoid them in future.
Safety officer EHS maintains documentation for processes SOPs (Standard Operating procedures), machineries and environment related for Government regulators.
Maintaining good relationship with government regulatory authorities.
They are also responsible to conduct surface drill operations and exploration camp facilities.
EHS officers and managers perform Internal EHS audits.
Safety Manager Roles and responsibilities
Just to summarize, Major roles of safety managers are:
- Preparing EHS (Environmental Health and safety) plan for the project as per contract requirements
- Ensure compliances with statutory provisions and required documents
- Continuously raise awareness about safety amongst employees of the company
Major tasks include ensure adequate and timely procurement and maintenance of personal protective equipments, daily site inspection, identify any risks, organize and conduct safety meetings, attend internal and external audits, Accident investigation to find root cause, provide training for safety to staff, organize safety campaigns, Carry out mock drills, First aid training, identify scope of cost cutting in protective equipments without compromise on safety etc.
Candidate applying for safety Manager should have thorough knowledge of safety rules, able to conduct safety audit, conduct enquiry on accident, review of environmental aspect and impact, able to conduct health awareness program, Knowledge of Waste Management. Knowledge of ISO 14001 & 18001, etc.
Environmental health and Safety EHS Manager’s Duty in case of Injury of worker / employee
When in an event worker gets injured then, EHS manager is responsible for investigation of whole incident. He or she has to provide the detailed report with findings of what caused the incident and with suggestions on how to prevent in future to senior management.
If any injury is caused because of an unsafe process then, the EHS manager is responsible to conduct training sessions for employees so that proper safety processes can be followed in the future.
An EHS manager works at an organization to identify, remove, reduce, and otherwise control environmental hazards and risks. Environmental Health and Safety manager looks over the development and implementation of all the health and safety programs in the company.
Environment (E), health (H) and safety (S), EHS is an acronym for the set that studies and implements the practical aspects of protecting the environment and maintaining health and safety at occupation. In simple terms, it is what organizations must do to make sure that their activities do not cause harm to anyone.
EHS management refers to the implementation of procedures focused on ensuring and improving the safety of workers and their surroundings equipments. These processes play an important role in achieving and maintaining the overall environmental goals of the Company.
EHS stands for Environment, health and safety.
Human resources managers in environmental, health and safety (EHS) industries have the unique task of grappling with both.
As Per HSE, They have designed the Management Standards approach to help employers manage the causes of work-related stress. It is based on the familiar ‘Five steps to risk assessment’ model, requiring management and staff to work together. The Standards refer to six areas of work that can lead to stress if not properly managed.
An EHS incident is an unexpected event which results in (or has the potential to cause) damage, injury, or some form of disruption to your business routine. EHS Incident Management is a key element of a commitment to continuous improvement of safety and compliance management programs.
The incident life cycles are Incident identification, Incident logging, Incident categorization, Incident prioritization, Incident response.
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Excellent information, thank you.