Manager, Workplace Health and Safety

[What the role is]

You will work closely with management, supervisors and staff to ensure compliance with workplace safety and health requirements while fostering a proactive and positive safety culture. You will lead initiatives that identify and mitigate workplace risks, investigate incidents, strengthen emergency preparedness, and continuously improve safety performance across the organisation.

[What you will be working on]

• Assist Management in fulfilling statutory obligations under the Workplace Safety & Health Act and its subsidiary legislation

• Identify workplace safety and health hazards, assess associated risks, and recommend appropriate risk control measures to prevent injuries, occupational illnesses, and dangerous occurrences

• Develop, implement and review workplace safety and health policies, procedures, programmes and safe work practices to support WSH Management System.

• Conduct safety inspections, audits and workplace assessments to monitor compliance with regulatory requirements and organisational standards.

• Lead or participate in the investigation of workplace accidents, dangerous occurrences, near misses and occupational diseases, and ensure timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions.

• Facilitate and review risk assessments for laboratory, operational and project activities, ensuring that adequate controls are implemented prior to commencement of work.

• Advise management, supervisors and staff on WSH requirements, hazard controls and best safety practices.

• Coordinate safety training, awareness programmes and safety campaigns to strengthen safety competency and promote a positive safety culture within the organisation.

• Monitor statutory inspections, medical surveillance programmes, toxic substance monitoring and other organisation-related initiatives required under regulatory frameworks.

• Support the organisation's Emergency Preparedness, Fire Safety and Biosafety programmes, including emergency exercises, drills and business continuity initiatives.

• Serve as the secretariat or technical advisor to safety committees and working groups and prepare reports, performance statistics and management updates on safety matters.

• Investigate and report instances of safety non-compliance and recommend appropriate interventions to address unsafe conditions or practices.

[What we are looking for]

Background in Occupational Safety and Health, Engineering, Science, Environmental Health, Risk Management or related discipline AND preferably one or more of the followings:

• Registered Workplace Safety & Health Officer (WSHO) with MOM Singapore
• Fire Safety Manager (FSM)
• ISO 45001 & ISO 14001 Auditor
• Professional Bio-risk Management Certification or equivalent