As you know, every employee in any enterprise should have his own job description. A labor safety specialist is no exception to this rule. He, like other employees, has a number of duties and functions, undoubtedly requiring detailed presentation on paper. Let's look at what specific features distinguish this position, from which it is necessary to proceed, drawing up job descriptions for managers, specialists working in the field of ensuring the safety of the organization’s employees.
Who is an HSE engineer?
Whatever the company does, the legislation of our country requires its owners to take care of ensuring the safety of workers for its benefit. It is understood that when the number of employees exceeds 50 people, a special unit, most often called an occupational safety engineer, is added to the staff list, which is taken as an individual person or which is combined with one of the people already employed in the company with the main job. The greater the number of employees and workers in the enterprise, the more the service responsible for labor safety becomes.
A safety engineer (labor protection) is a specialist in the technical field involved in debugging and monitoring the work of the labor protection system at the enterprise and the prevention of industrial accidents. Most often, he directly reports to the head of the department, the chief engineer or director of the organization (depending on its structure and size).
Requirements for the applicant
A typical job description of a specialist, labor protection engineer having any category, as a rule, contains the following professional characteristics that an employee needs to possess.
A specialist accepted for a position of category I must have a higher education with a technical profile and work experience in the field of an engineer in OT of category II. An employee applying for category II is also obliged to have a higher technical education and experience in the position of an engineer in occupational safety (TB) or in the position of another engineering and technical employee, similar in terms of the required level of training.
What does a typical occupational health and safety specialist job title without a category tell us? It is recommended to accept a person with a higher engineering and technical education who does not have a working experience, or a specialist with a diploma in qualification in an educational institution of secondary vocational technical education and experience in this qualification.
How to be guided in work?
What other item does job description necessarily include? The labor protection specialist, like all other specialists, performing its functions, is guided by certain documents, namely:
1. Methodological materials and recommendations in the field of health and safety, affecting the scope of the organization and general issues of ensuring the safety of workers.
2. The charter of the enterprise.
3. Laws and regulations regarding safety and labor protection.
4. Internal local regulatory acts, in particular the rules of the internal labor schedule of the company.
5. By orders, orders of the head.
6. Actually the information that contains the job description of an engineer for labor protection and safety.
What do you need to know?
As the standard job description of an occupational safety engineer shows, a sample of which we are considering, this specialist is supposed to have the following knowledge:
- labor protection legislation;
- methods of organizing occupational health and safety activities, a system of labor protection standards;
- ways to get acquainted with working conditions in the workplace;
- psychophysiological indicators of a person’s condition that are permissible during his employment, depending on the severity of labor;
- basic provisions of labor law;
- terms and procedures for reporting on health and safety activities;
- means and rules for monitoring compliance with the condition of machinery and equipment used in the enterprise, safety standards;
- features of the operation of equipment operating at the enterprise, and the main production processes carried out in the course of its activities.
Main functionality
A typical job description for a labor safety specialist includes a section called “functions”. As a rule, the purpose of this employee is reduced to overseeing compliance with the legislation of the enterprise, as well as other regulatory legal acts on labor protection and safety, including internal local ones.
In addition, the specialist’s functional includes the development, preparation and implementation of measures related to the prevention and prevention of occupational diseases and possible accidents arising in the course of labor. An occupational health and safety engineer must compile reports on his activities and provide them in the allotted time, provide the employees with a methodological basis to ensure their safety.
The main duties of a labor protection specialist
To carry out his functions, an engineer performs certain duties. Namely:
- reveals harmful and dangerous production factors ;
- analyzes the causes of accidents and injuries in the workplace, diseases of workers;
- when conducting certification of workplaces, assessing the safety of equipment, certification of premises, he takes an active part and assists specialists who organized these events;
- informs the team on behalf of the management of the existing working conditions, measures taken to protect workers from the harmful effects of harmful factors in the field.
The main responsibilities of an RT engineer also include:
- taking part in the preparation of collective agreements and labor protection agreements;
- development and implementation of measures to prevent injuries, occupational diseases, accidents, elimination of violations of safety regulations, together with the heads of units;
- formation of lists for periodic medical examination of employees;
- drawing up a list of professions that are supposed to provide benefits and compensation for working in difficult, dangerous and harmful conditions;
- preparation and conduct of introductory briefings for newly hired employees;
- preparation and presentation of reports on labor protection in the necessary forms and terms.
The wide range of duties that a labor protection specialist performs, the instruction usually complements the receipt of applications, complaints and letters that come from employees and address safety and labor protection issues, writing proposals to the administration for their elimination and generating answers to applicants.
Exercise control
But this is not limited to the work of this engineer. Most of it consists in conducting comprehensive monitoring activities in the field of safety of the enterprise, as a typical job description tells us. The labor protection specialist must monitor the following points:
- the extent to which labor protection measures are prescribed in collective agreements, labor protection agreements, and others aimed at creating safe and healthy working conditions;
- whether safety instructions are available in each unit;
- whether tests and technical examinations of production equipment were carried out on time;
- whether suction and ventilation systems, safety and protective devices of mechanisms function effectively;
- Are annual scheduled inspections of the grounding of electrical installations, insulation of electrical wiring conducted;
- whether the employees are provided with the appropriate work clothing and footwear, in what condition it is, whether they are being cleaned, washed and repaired in a timely manner.
Availability of rights
What other items should the job description contain? A labor protection specialist, in addition to duties, has certain rights. These include familiarization with the draft orders of the leadership relating to its work. He may submit proposals to his manager for improvement of the labor protection system and safety measures operating at the enterprise.
The rights of an occupational safety engineer include receiving information and documents from divisions addressing issues falling within his competence, attracting specialists of any departments and divisions to solve the tasks assigned to him (with the permission of the head, or if this moment is provided for by internal regulations of structural divisions) .
Responsibility
What is the responsibility of a labor safety specialist? The standard instruction manual provides that he must be responsible for the failure to fulfill or improper performance of the requirements determined by the job description, within the limits of the current labor legislation of the Russian Federation.
The HSE engineer is also responsible for offenses committed by him during the course of his work, for material damage caused to the company or to third parties, for providing false information regarding the performance of his functions, and for not taking measures to eliminate identified safety violations.
Documents for work
To carry out his labor duties, a labor protection specialist requires the following documents:
- provision governing the operation of the labor protection system at the enterprise;
- fire safety regulations;
- safety and labor protection instructions;
- magazines, posters, stands, signs on safety measures and labor protection;
- instructions for work in a factory with increased risk;
- technological and other documents.
Depending on the specifics of the enterprise, this list may be supplemented by a number of other administrative and regulatory acts.
Job description structure
Based on the foregoing, it is obvious that the typical job description of a specialist in labor safety includes the following sections:
1. General provisions (job description; requirements for the employee to be hired; an indication of who he is directly subordinate to; documents that the employee is guided in the course of his activities; knowledge that a specialist should possess).
2. Occupational health and safety specialist functions.
3. His job responsibilities, including control functions.
4. The inalienable rights of the employee.
5. Cases of his liability.
If desired, the employer can divide the available sections into additional ones, add the missing items to the structure of the job description. In other words, edit according to the needs and characteristics of the organization.