Specialist Occupational Health

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Posting Date: Feb 13, 2025

Location: Secunda, South Africa

Company: Sasol

Sasol is a global integrated chemicals and energy company with a 70-year heritage. Through our talented people, we use our expertise and selected technologies to safely and sustainably source, manufacture and market chemical and energy products globally. When you join Team Sasol, you are joining a company that puts people at the center of everything we do.

Sasol invests in its employees along every stage of the career path and offers development opportunities to help you cultivate your career in a culture that embraces diversity and inclusion.

Closing date

26 February 2025

Ref number

7676

OME

MRS I SHE & Medical Services I Occupational Health

City / Town

Secunda, Mpumalanga 

Purpose of Job

Address human health risks, identify, qualify, quantify, analyze, and interpret these risks to determine and prescribe relevant measures for their removal, mitigation, or containment.

Implement standards and requirements to manage health risks, ensuring acceptable risk management by determining, prescribing, and signing off on relevant measures to remove, mitigate, or contain these risks.

Monitor the implementation of control measures, manage identified health issues (both expected and unexpected), and provide thought leadership on health throughout the project lifecycle.

Key Accountabilities

  • Integrate Sasol's Group Health Model into Projects, Engineering, and Environment.
  • Ensure adherence to the One Sasol SHE Excellence Approach health risk management deliverables.
  • Determine and interpret project-specific relevant South African and institutional (IFC, WHO) health laws, and integrate them into requirements, prescriptions, and project-relevant country-specific health rules, regulations, and laws.
  • Implement Sasol's risk philosophy and enterprise risk management framework.
  • Anticipate, recognize, evaluate, and compile requirements for health risk management in Projects and Engineering projects, and include these aspects in the appropriate quality management documents and systems.
  • Perform in-house Health Risk Assessments for the Projects and Engineering environment and oversee the implementation of recommended measures to ensure effective control of the identified occupational stressors.
  • Assess, analyze, and interpret Health Risk Assessment data and perform a Health Impact Assessment that addresses risks and implications for the project.
  • Ensure that Health Specification is provided to projects in the construction phase.
  • Ensure that the SHE Plan from service providers incorporates the management of health risks and conforms to the site health requirements.
  • Conduct inspections/audits, compile reports, and discuss findings/deviations with the projects, providing recommendations.
  • Periodically review the standards of health-related matters in projects from inception to completion.
  • Contribute to employee wellness and create, establish, and maintain partnership relations with service providers and business owners.
  • Provide second-level assurance on all projects regarding the applicable aspects of health risk management.
  • Benchmark, network, and stay abreast of developments and best practices in Occupational Health.
  • Apply evidence-based SHE practices that align with set standards to ensure safe operations.

Formal Education

Health related University Bachelor's Degree (NQF Level 7) 

Registered with a professional body as guided by individual allied health professions.

Working Experience

Experience: 3+ relevant years in Occupational Health

Required Personal and Professional Skills

BC_Collaborates
TC_SHE Policy and Strategic Objectives
BC_Organizational Savvy
TC_SHE Professional Training and Behaviours
BC_Business Insight
TC_Human Factors and SHE Culture
BC_Plans and Aligns
TC_Safety Management Techniques
TC_Safety Principles
BC_Action Oriented

Sasol is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.  Inspired by our Purpose of “Innovating for a better world”, Sasol acknowledges that diversity is intrinsic to the fabric of our organisation and is the key to our growth and success.  Sasol is committed to the full inclusion of all suitably qualified individuals.  Preference will be given to applicants from designated groups and people with disabilities according to Sasol’s Employment Equity Plan.  This includes reasonable accommodation to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions.

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