Duties and Expectations
The contract safety referee is responsible for ensuring the safety and health of employees in their workplace. They perform a variety of tasks, including:
- Assists in reviewing site work to verify compliance in accordance with applicable safety procedures, guides, plans, and regulations.
- Assist in mitigation of identified hazardous conditions or unsafe acts.
- Carry out examinations of machinery, working environments and structures, and other factors equipment in the plant taking employee safety into consideration including ergonomics, noise, heat, and vibrations, etc., and take photographs and samples where necessary
- Participate in incident investigations and assist with the development of corrective actions
- Assists in preparing incident reports and document analysis, cause/effect, and actions taken (photos as required)
- Ensure workers are provided with suitable protective equipment, such as eye goggles, ear protectors, gloves and other clothing
- Assists in monitoring the performance of subcontractors with respect to safety
- Continuous monitoring of all projects related activities to ensure alignment with and adherence to all Health & Safety, Quality and Environmental Management systems and plans
- Attend construction kick-off meetings to encourage, enforce compliance to safety requirements, and conduct site visits to monitor compliance activities on all projects.
- Conduct EHS safety training and educational support to employers and new or trainee employees.
- Develop methods to predict possible hazards drawn from experience, historical data and other appropriate information sources
- provide training
- Enforcing safety: Encourage employees to identify unsafe conditions and take action to prevent them.