Safety Officer

Project: Construction & Township Development Project

Key Roles & Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor HSE policies, procedures, and project safety requirements across the township construction site.
• Conduct daily site inspections to identify unsafe acts, unsafe conditions, and potential hazards, and ensure timely corrective actions.
• Monitor construction activities including excavation, foundation work, RCC, shuttering, reinforcement, masonry, plastering, flooring, painting, finishing, and external development works.
• Ensure safe execution of work at height activities, including scaffolding, ladders, working platforms, and fall-protection systems.
• Inspect scaffolding and ensure proper erection, tagging, access, guardrails, toe boards, bracing, and stability before use.
• Monitor lifting and material-handling operations, including crane, hydra, lifting tools, tackles, and rigging activities.
• Ensure proper implementation of the Permit-to-Work (PTW) system for high-risk activities.
• Monitor excavation and trenching activities, ensuring proper barricading, access/egress, shoring or safe-sloping arrangements, and underground utility identification.
• Monitor electrical safety, including temporary electrical connections, distribution boards, cables, earthing, ELCB/RCCB protection, and electrical tools.
• Ensure safe execution of hot work, welding, gas cutting, grinding, and other fire-risk activities.
• Conduct Toolbox Talks (TBT), safety inductions, pre-job briefings, and safety awareness training for workers, supervisors, and subcontractors.
• Ensure 100% compliance with appropriate PPE requirements, including helmets, safety shoes, gloves, eye protection, reflective jackets, and fall-protection equipment.
• Review and assist in implementing HIRA, JSA, Risk Assessments, and Method Statements for construction activities.
• Monitor proper housekeeping, material storage, access routes, barricading, warning signage, and traffic management throughout the project.
• Ensure safe movement of construction vehicles, equipment, workers, and materials within the township project.
• Monitor safety during demolition, dismantling, cutting, and modification activities, wherever applicable.
• Ensure adequate fire protection and emergency arrangements, including fire extinguishers, emergency exits, assembly points, and rescue equipment.
• Conduct and participate in emergency drills, fire drills, work-at-height rescue drills, and other mock drills.