To monitor the strict implementation of safety requirements, an additional unit is introduced into the staff list - “labor protection and safety engineer”. Reviews of people already working in this specialty are similar. Everyone claims that a person who is comprehensively developed, versed in the work of the enterprise and individual processes in particular, is suitable for this work.
General information
An occupational health and safety engineer whose education plays an important role in hiring can have three categories. A specialist may be appointed to the position that meets the requirements for this position, namely: higher education, while work experience is not taken into account; Specialized secondary education with a seniority in the position of engineer (mechanic) from 3 years.
Requirements may vary depending on the category that the labor and safety engineer will have. The salary from this, accordingly, will also vary. The average salary is from 15 to 40 thousand rubles.
A common question among those who want to receive the coveted entry in the labor book “Occupational Health and Safety Engineer”: where does the future specialist study? There is simply no answer to this question. A specialist in this field can become an employee with the qualification of "engineer". In educational institutions with a degree in labor protection and safety engineering, training is not provided. The candidate can only attend labor protection courses, which are taught at all technical universities.
Key points of the instruction
The labor protection and safety engineer uses the following regulatory documents in his work:
- Legislative acts and other documents related to OT;
- orders (instructions) of the head of the company, higher organizations;
- employment rules established by the company;
Occupational health and safety engineer must know:
- legislative framework for the protection of labor activity, legal acts;
- reliability and safety requirements for production processes;
- methods for determining the working conditions in which employees work at the enterprise;
- organization system and principles of work in the field of health;
- psychophysical requirements for the categories of work severity, the use of the services of workers who were transferred to light work, as well as women and minor children;
- features of the functioning of devices and equipment;
- ways of disseminating information in the field of health.
Functions
An occupational health and safety engineer performs the following actions:
- Supervises the implementation of regulatory legal acts and other documents related to labor protection.
- Develops and implements new measures to prevent occupational diseases and prevent accidents in the company, to modernize the quality of working conditions.
- Provides documentary assistance in case of questions on health and safety.
- Collaborates with the employer in creating a safe and healthy climate at the enterprise.
- Provides the necessary reporting regarding its activities.
Responsibilities
Occupational health and safety engineer must:
- Carry out the organization of all the processes related to health and safety, as well as the relationship between the departments for compliance with safety standards in quality and working conditions, implements the state policy in the field of protecting the activities of workers within the limits of its authority.
- To analyze the working conditions of workers, the degree of injury and the level of occupational diseases. To develop a set of measures to modernize working conditions, prevent occupational diseases and prevent injuries.
- Introduce international best practices in occupational health and safety, develop and implement modern and improved elements of safety and blocking devices that protect the employee from dangerous and harmful factors of production.
- Conduct primary (introductory) OT instruction with new employees, business travelers, as well as schoolchildren and students who have arrived at production practice.
- Provide training for management workers in the entrusted sphere, be a member of the commission for testing the knowledge of workers in the field of health and safety.
- Take part in investigations of industrial accidents.
- Provide fire safety and fire prevention at the enterprise.
- Introduce modern scientific developments to protect the enterprise from fires.
- Ensure that the measures and recommendations prescribed by the state fire control authorities are carried out efficiently and on time.
- To organize high-quality training of employees in the principles of fire safety and ensure their participation in the prevention and elimination of fires, not to allow workers who have not passed safety training to work.
Rights
Occupational health and safety engineer has the right to:
- Be familiar with the draft decisions of the heads of the enterprise, directly related to its field of activity.
- Check compliance with the requirements for the protection of employees at any time of the enterprise.
- Demand and receive from the production departments the necessary data and documents to control the correct reflection of the requirements for OT in them.
- To offer the employer rational proposals for the modernization of working conditions at the enterprise, the protection of workers' industrial rights.
- Require the heads of departments to strictly comply with the requirements of state supervision bodies, as well as the measures that have been developed at the enterprise, in full and on time.
- Suspend the orders of the heads of units, if they contradict legislative acts, as well as documents adopted by the department, notify the head.
- Suspend the operation of any equipment and tools if violations of health and safety standards are identified in them.
- To offer management ways to modernize working conditions within the scope of this job description.
Occupational Health and Safety Engineer: Responsibility
Bears personal responsibility (within the limits of current legislation):
- For poor performance or complete failure to fulfill their duties, incorrect or complete non-use of the granted rights in full.
- For violations of legal norms that were committed during the performance of official duties.
- For material damage caused to the enterprise.
- For violation of legislation on health and safety.
- For the accuracy of the information provided to state statistics bodies.