Executive - Environment Health & Safety

Promea, a leading medical device manufacturer in India, is hiring an Executive for Environment Health & Safety in Hyderabad. The role involves ensuring employee safety, compliance with safety laws, conducting workplace inspections, and training staff on safety protocols. Responsibilities include hazard identification, accident investigation, maintaining documentation, and collaborating with regulatory authorities. A Bachelor's degree in EHS or Engineering is required. This is a full-time position located on-site.
Environment Health & Safety

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.

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.
• 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 equipment's, 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 equipment's without compromise on safety etc.

Qualification

Bachelor Degree (EHS / Engineering)