Occupational Health & Safety Management Professional
Every job carries certain risks, whether it’s the job of a firefighter, a nurse, an engineer, a photographer, or a computer programmer. Each job has its unique challenges that must be taken into account in order to prevent incidents, injuries, illnesses, and compromised wellbeing of all employees. Every organization, big or small, has to work on ensuring employee health and safety. This is the way to ensure the organization complies with relevant laws and regulations, but also to increase productivity and minimize threats not only to employees but to the business as well. Businesses must be able to tackle the threats and risks to their resources, employee safety, and organizational performance. These elements are intertwined as a sick, injured, or ill worker cannot contribute their best to the organization. To ensure long-term success, organizations need to develop, implement, and continually improve their health and safety management framework.
The Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional works to ensure that his or her organization meets the requirements of occupational health and safety (OH&S) compliance, carries out safety inspections and risk assessments, implement health and safety procedures in the workplace and conducts relevant health and safety training with employees. These professionals are also responsible for supervising staff, investigating incidents, and adjusting policies as needed. The Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional continuously reviews the health and safety management system and makes improvements that match changes within the company. He or she also works with company leaders to improve risk-based decision-making and problem-solving.
An Occupational Health and Safety Management Professional’s job tasks include:
- Ensuring that the organization complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring that the organization complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
- Ensuring that the organization complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
- Effectively communicating with stakeholders to ensure a health and safety management framework is implemented within the organization.
- Effectively communicating with stakeholders to ensure a health and safety management framework is implemented within the organization.
- Establishing an occupational health and safety management policy.
- Effectively communicating with stakeholders to ensure a health and safety management framework is implemented within the organization.
- Recording the results of the occupational health and safety management processes.
- Implementing the occupational health and safety management process.
- Identifying hazards and addressing health and safety risks in the workplace.
- Implementing preventive and corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
- Identifying hazards and addressing health and safety risks in the workplace.
- Identifying hazards and addressing health and safety risks in the workplace.
- Designing and implementing occupational health and safety management framework.
- Developing or maintaining medical monitoring programs, health programs, and protection measures for workers.
- Inspecting and investigating work environments to ensure compliance with legislation, standards, and regulation. Developing or maintaining hygiene programs.
- Testing facilities for environmental hazards. Conducting related audits, inventories, sample analysis. Monitoring hazardous materials and waste handling.
- Managing change in the workplace.
- Ensuring that the organization complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
- Implementing the occupational health and safety management process.
- Implementing the occupational health and safety management process.
- Ensuring that the organization complies with all relevant legal and regulatory requirements.
- Monitoring and reviewing the changed occupational health and safety management framework.
- Conducting regular audits of the occupational health and safety framework.
- Recording the results of the occupational health and safety management processes.
- Continually improving the occupational health and safety management framework.
- Implementing preventive and corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
Work Activities summarize the kinds of tasks that may be performed across multiple occupations. Work activities are an aggregation of similar job tasks or behaviors for the accomplishment of major work functions.
An Occupational Health & Safety Professionals work activities include:
- Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards
- Making Decisions and Solving Problems
- Interpreting the Meaning of Information for Others
- Documenting/Recording Information
- Monitor Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
- Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
- Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Material
- Provide Consultation and Advice to Others
- Training and Teaching Others
- Developing and Building Teams
- Developing Objectives and Strategies
- Estimating the Quantifiable Characteristics of Products, Events, or Information
- Scheduling Work and Activities
- Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others
- Thinking Creatively
- Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others
- Selling or Influencing Others
- Guiding, Directing, and Motivating Subordinates
- Judging the Qualities of Things, Services, or People
- Coaching and Developing Others
- Assisting and Caring for Others
- Performing Administrative Activities
The Health&SafetyBench curriculum gives students the materials, tools, and resources they need to ensure labor compliance and create a safe working environment for employees. Health&SafetyBench offers advanced educational content based on the ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems.
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