WHSE Advisor

The Brickwood (Dandenong) site specialises in the manufacture and supply of rigid plastic packaging servicing for the consumer sector. We are currently seeking a Workplace Health and Safety Advisor to provide oversight and drive consistent implementation of WH&S systems across the Dandenong site to ensure the organisation meets its legal and ethical obligation to provide a healthy and safe workplace.

As a WH&S leader on site, you will provide a connection between the Site and Group level activities and will champion and monitor implementation of the Group WH&S System (Policy, Procedures and tools), including communicating with Site Management and conducting inspections and audits. You will support and drive the assessment and recommendations to improve controls of all site hazardous and high-risk activities as well as provide oversight of critical incidents and support the Site with incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action closure. This includes the investigation of incidents that affect health, pollution, contamination and waste management

Your key responsibilities will be to:

•  Provide oversight of health, safety and environmental incidents and supporting sites with incident investigation, root cause analysis and corrective action close out
• Monitor and drive activities with external regulatory bodies (such as WorkSafe and EPA) and providing recommendations of continuous improvement for the Group HSES System 
• Plan and implement environmental, health and safety programs.
• Identify common environment, health and safety hazards inherent at the site and establish guidelines for the control of hazards.
• Promote and champion a zero-harm culture, by providing expert advice, support and driving implementation of the Group HSES system. This entails providing advice to Site leadership teams.
• Incident Management
• Train and educate site leaders of the PACT safety management systems