Safety Officer/Sr. Officer

Role & responsibilities

A. Occupational Health & Industrial Safety

• Implement EHS policies, procedures, SOPs, and safe work practices across manufacturing, utilities, warehouse, laboratory, and engineering areas.
• Conduct routine safety inspections, workplace audits, hazard identification, and risk assessments.
• Ensure implementation of Job Safety Analysis (JSA), HIRA, and risk control measures.
• Monitor compliance with PPE requirements, machine guarding, electrical safety, fire safety, and safe material handling.
• Administer Permit-to-Work (PTW) systems, including hot work, confined space entry, work at height, excavation, and electrical isolation/LOTO.
• Conduct toolbox talks, safety induction, and periodic EHS training for employees, contractors, and visitors.
• Investigate accidents, near misses, unsafe acts, and unsafe conditions; perform root cause analysis and track corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Monitor occupational health requirements, including medical examinations, chemical exposure controls, noise exposure, and industrial hygiene assessments.
• Ensure contractor safety management and compliance with site EHS requirements.

B. API Process Safety

• Identify hazards associated with API manufacturing processes, including reactors, centrifuges, dryers, filtration systems, solvent handling, and chemical charging operations.
• Ensure safe handling, storage, labeling, and segregation of hazardous chemicals, solvents, acids, alkalis, toxic substances, and flammable materials.
• Support process hazard analysis activities such as HAZID, HAZOP, What-If analysis, and risk assessments, as applicable.
• Monitor implementation of recommendations arising from process hazard reviews and Management of Change (MOC).
• Ensure safe operations involving flammable solvents, hazardous reactions, pressure systems, vacuum systems, and potentially hazardous atmospheres.
• Verify implementation of gas detection, ventilation, earthing/bonding, explosion protection, and other applicable engineering safeguards.
• Support safe handling of highly potent, toxic, sensitizing, or otherwise hazardous pharmaceutical intermediates and APIs.

C. Fire & Emergency Management

• Inspect fire extinguishers, hydrants, hose reels, fire pumps, fire alarms, emergency exits, and emergency response equipment.
• Monitor fire protection and emergency preparedness arrangements in process blocks, solvent storage areas, warehouses, and utility sections.
• Organize mock drills for fire, chemical spills, toxic releases, and other credible emergency scenarios.
• Maintain emergency response plans, emergency contact lists, evacuation procedures, and incident records.
• Coordinate with the emergency response team, security, engineering, production, and external emergency agencies as required.
• Ensure readiness and inspection of spill kits, emergency showers, eyewash stations, breathing apparatus, and other relevant emergency equipment.

D. Environmental Management

• Monitor effluent treatment plant (ETP), sewage treatment plant (STP), air pollution control systems, and other environmental control facilities, as applicable.
• Ensure compliance with Consent to Establish (CTE), Consent to Operate (CTO), environmental clearance conditions, and applicable GPCB/CPCB requirements.
• Monitor air emissions, wastewater quality, hazardous waste, solid waste, and other environmental parameters against applicable requirements.
• Ensure proper collection, labeling, storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous waste through authorized agencies.
• Maintain hazardous waste records, manifests, returns, and other statutory environmental documentation.
• Monitor solvent recovery, solvent loss prevention, resource conservation, water management, and energy efficiency initiatives.
• Support environmental audits, compliance evaluations, and implementation of corrective actions.
• Coordinate environmental sampling, monitoring, and reporting with authorized laboratories and relevant departments.

E. Statutory Compliance & Documentation

• Maintain an updated register of applicable EHS laws, rules, regulations, licenses, approvals, and statutory conditions.
• Support compliance with applicable provisions of the Factories Act and relevant Gujarat factory rules, environmental legislation, hazardous waste rules, chemical accident prevention requirements, fire safety requirements, and other applicable laws.
• Coordinate with the factory management, statutory authorities, and external consultants for inspections, audits, and compliance submissions.
• Maintain records of safety inspections, incident investigations, training, mock drills, waste disposal, environmental monitoring, and equipment inspections.
• Assist in preparing and reviewing EHS SOPs, work instructions, risk assessments, emergency plans, and statutory reports.
• Support implementation and maintenance of ISO 14001 and ISO 45001 management systems, where applicable.
• Ensure timely closure of audit observations, nonconformities, and corrective and preventive actions.

F. GMP & Cross-Functional Coordination

• Coordinate with Production, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Engineering, Utilities, Warehouse, and HR teams to resolve EHS issues.
• Support GMP-compliant maintenance of relevant EHS records and controlled procedures.
• Ensure EHS risks are assessed during equipment installation, plant modification, process changes, and project commissioning.
• Participate in internal audits, external audits, customer audits, and regulatory inspections as required.
• Promote a strong safety culture and ensure environmental and safety considerations are incorporated into routine operations.

Preferred candidate profile

• 46 years of relevant experience in API or bulk drug manufacturing.
• Experience in process safety, HAZOP coordination, statutory compliance, incident investigation, and environmental management.