Full-time
Leams Education
An education Institute in Dubai, UAE is hiring a Health and Safety Officer with the following:
Responsibilities
- Training relevant staff on best practices and Dubai Municipality (DM) & KHDA requirements.
- Developing regulations, policies, standards and guidelines to improve health and safety procedures for the school related to the safety and security of students, people and property.
- Monitoring the implementation of these procedures.
- Conducting all necessary training for students and staff.
- Managing the designated isolation room on the school premises.
- Provide guidelines on the daily and continuous cleaning and sanitisation requirements for school premises.
- Undertake fire safety audits, and coordinates with the Civil Defense during inspections and other fire & safety issues.
- Adhering to DHA regulations.
- Undertake evacuation drills and produce appropriate reports.
- Identifies potential safety or fire hazards; takes action or makes recommendations to eliminate hazards during regular inspection rounds.
- Conduct and deliver fire safety training and orientations to all newly hired employees conduct refresher courses on an annual basis for all employees and maintain records of attendees.
- Conducting all necessary contact tracing procedures by coordinating with the school clinic (which include contact tracing, recording of contacts’ details and all actions taken in the HASANA system).
- Managing all emergencies abiding by H&S protocols.
- Updating contact and emergency numbers for staff and students.
- Scheduling stakeholders’ meetings to address the priorities and result-oriented solutions.
- Stop any unsafe acts or processes that seem dangerous or unhealthy.
- Coordinating with the operations/maintenance team to ensure that H&S safety protocols are strictly followed.
- Prepare reports on occurrences and provide statistical information to the school management
- Record and investigate incidents; conduct a risk analysis.
Qualifications
- Proven experience as a school Health and Safety Officer with NEBOSH/IOSH Certification.
- Knowledge of the principles of safety, accident, and fire prevention.
- Ability to maintain composure and respond properly during emergencies.
- Knowledge of regulatory policies, procedures, rules and regulations.
- Experience in writing incident reports and policies for health and safety.
- Familiarity with conducting data analysis and reporting statistics.
