1. Explosives & Process Safety
- Conduct routine safety inspections of explosive manufacturing and ammunition process areas.
- Ensure compliance with approved process parameters, SOPs, work instructions and safety precautions.
- Verify that only authorized personnel are permitted to enter restricted/explosive areas.
- Monitor adherence to approved limits for explosive quantity, occupancy, material movement and storage.
- Ensure segregation and identification of explosives, ammunition, detonative components, pyrotechnics, propellants and other hazardous materials as specified by approved procedures.
- Monitor housekeeping and ensure removal of explosive residues, combustible materials and waste from work areas.
- Ensure that no unauthorized material, equipment or activity is introduced into explosive process areas.
- Report immediately any abnormal condition involving heating, smoke, fumes, unusual noise, contamination, static electricity, friction, impact or other potential ignition/explosion hazards.
2. Permit-to-Work & Work Control
- Verify implementation of Permit-to-Work systems for applicable maintenance and non-routine activities.
- Ensure proper authorization before hot work, electrical work, confined-space work, excavation, work at height and other hazardous activities.
- Verify isolation/LOTO requirements before maintenance activities.
- Ensure that maintenance personnel understand the hazards associated with explosive-contaminated equipment and areas.
- Stop work when mandatory safety controls are absent or ineffective.
3. Fire & Explosion Prevention
- Ensure unobstructed access to emergency exits, firefighting equipment and emergency routes.
- Monitor ignition-source control in explosive areas.
- Verify compliance with requirements for electrical equipment, earthing/bonding and static electricity control.
- Participate in fire drills, emergency response exercises and evacuation drills.
- Report defects in fire protection systems immediately to the responsible authority.
4. Safety Inspection & Hazard Identification
- Conduct daily safety rounds in assigned areas.
- Identify unsafe acts, unsafe conditions and deviations from established controls.
- Carry out inspections using approved EHS checklists.
- Monitor compliance with PPE requirements.
- Check access control, signage, barricading, housekeeping and emergency arrangements.
- Record observations and ensure timely closure of corrective actions.
- Escalate critical and imminent danger conditions immediately.
5. Risk Assessment & Process Safety Management
- Participate in Job Safety Analysis (JSA/JHA), risk assessments and task-specific hazard assessments.
- Support HAZOP, What-if, FMEA, FTA and other process-safety studies as required.
- Verify implementation of risk-control measures identified through risk assessments.
- Monitor Management of Change (MOC) requirements for changes affecting safety.
- Assist in identifying critical safety barriers and monitoring their effectiveness.
- Support incident and near-miss investigations.
6. Explosives Storage & Material Movement
- Monitor safe movement and handling of explosives and ammunition within the facility.
- Ensure approved routes and procedures are followed during material movement.
- Verify proper identification, labeling and segregation of hazardous materials.
- Monitor housekeeping and safe stacking/storage arrangements.
- Ensure unauthorized accumulation of explosive materials does not occur in process areas.
- Immediately report deviations in approved storage or movement arrangements.
7. Personnel Safety
- Conduct toolbox talks and pre-job safety briefings.
- Ensure workers understand the hazards associated with their assigned jobs.
- Monitor PPE compliance.
- Identify unsafe worker practices and provide immediate corrective guidance.
- Ensure contractors and temporary workers comply with site safety requirements.
- Assist in safety induction and refresher training.
8. Contractor Safety Management
- Monitor contractor activities within production, maintenance, construction and utility areas.
- Verify contractor permits, competency, PPE and required training.
- Ensure contractors follow site-specific explosive-area restrictions.
- Stop unsafe contractor activities and report repeated violations.
- Participate in contractor safety meetings and inspections.
9. Incident & Emergency Management
- Immediately respond to fire, explosion, spill, injury, near miss or other emergency situations in accordance with the site emergency plan.
- Raise emergency alarms and assist in evacuation when required.
- Provide initial assistance within the limits of training and competency.
- Preserve the incident area following an event, where safe and authorized.
- Assist in collection of facts, photographs and witness information for incident investigation.
- Track implementation of corrective and preventive actions.
10. Occupational Health & Industrial Hygiene
- Monitor exposure risks such as dust, fumes, vapours, noise, heat and hazardous chemicals.
- Ensure workers use prescribed respiratory, hearing, eye and other protection.
- Report occupational-health concerns to the EHS/medical team.
- Monitor welfare facilities, drinking water, sanitation and workplace conditions.
- Support workplace monitoring and industrial-hygiene surveys.
11. Environmental Safety
- Monitor safe handling and disposal of hazardous and explosive waste.
- Ensure waste is segregated, identified and transferred through approved routes and procedures.
- Monitor spill prevention and response arrangements.
- Report environmental incidents and unsafe waste-handling practices.
12. Documentation
- Daily safety inspections.
- Safety observations and unsafe-act/unsafe-condition reports.
- Permit-to-work verification.
- Toolbox talks and safety training.
- Emergency drills.
- Fire equipment inspections.
- Incident and near-miss reports.
- Corrective-action closure.
- PPE inspections.
- Contractor safety inspections.
- Explosive-area safety observations.
- Statutory and internal inspection findings.