Health & Safety Manager

This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with all local and government requirements for environmental safety and industrial hygiene. Responsibility includes regulatory internal and external inspection, directing and ensuring that any deficiencies noted during audit assessments and/or assessments and/or regulatory inspections are promptly remedied for both factories . Plus develop and implement power conservation programs; the function includes the management of the plant security system including personnel and equipment.

• Provides technical Environmental Safety supervision to ensure the incorporation of safety management recommendations and compliance with safety and health standards for facilities, equipment or further expansion. Also responsible for reviewing and approving all projects involving Environmental and safety in new construction or modifications.
• Supervises the work of EHS personnel, evaluates performance of subordinate employees; gives advice on both work and administrative matters with authority to amend or reject work.
• Ensure that fire emergency considerations are addressed during development of production processes, equipment and facilities related to Otsuka.
• Responsible for development and implementation of Environmental Health and safety management systems to strategically and directionally move Otsuka factories operations beyond regulatory compliance.
• Designs, develops and produces Environmental Safety and industrial hygiene programs to satisfy Otsuka factories operational needs. Monitors the status of these programs. Assist Otsuka factories operations in identifying safety related problems and issues, and secures internal or external resources, as needed, to resolve them.
• Supervises the submittal of all Environmental and Safety reports in a complete and timely fashion as required by regulatory authorities or corporate policy.
• Regulate the safety related to any product distribution and packing logistics.
• Prepares for external or corporate audit for the Environmental Safety and health and coordinates in the follow-up action plans. Coordinates the timely remediation of findings. Performs periodic self-assessment as required by external authorities or Otsuka factories Japan.
• Hosts government inspections, coordinates inspection reports and ensures the timely correction of any outstanding items as a result of inspections.
• In conjunction with facility engineering, ensures that systems are in place to identify the impacts upon Environmental, Health and Safety, product transfers, or other changes in manufacturing that may impact these areas.
• Coordinates Industrial Hygiene surveys, colleague protection, practices and equipment.
• Investigates serious injuries, illnesses, business interruptions and property losses directly or through location personnel as appropriate.
• Develop and maintains emergency system and Evacuation Contingency Plans and Loss Prevention Programs as required and ensure implementation.
• Trains colleagues on Health and Safety program and ensure skill performance levels are maintained.
• Review insurance policies and ensure all insurance measures are included and all area are covered.
• Handling the logistics related to the renewal of the industrial registration, plant certificate, boiler certificate and others.
• Follow-up on legal issues related to the EH&S and work on fulfilling the gaps.
• Handling the issuance of all certification related to EH&S area.
• Manage the security system and personnel for the plant and establish the JD for them as well as the policy to follow. Follow-up on their day to day operations and evaluate their work.
• Sign on security registrar on daily basis and ensure investigations on odd cases.
• Maintain power ( Elect. Gas . water )records
• Implement and follow-up power conservation program
• Submitting Quarterly / Annual incident report
• Manager the proper way to handle solid waste and keep records
• Insure that all EH&S system are in place and compliance with SOPs