Safety Executive

Maukerja Malaysia; Kedah; On-site; MYR 67,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Maukerja Malaysia is seeking a Safety Officer to develop and enforce safety policies, ensuring regulatory compliance across facilities in Kedah. You will monitor safety compliance for employees, visitors, vendors, and contractors, and drive a robust Permit-to-Work system to control activities.

The role also includes coordinating with safety coordinators, organizing safety meetings, and conducting inspections and audits to identify hazards and ensure safe operations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety & Health or related field.
• Minimum 2–5 years experience in safety roles, regulatory compliance, EHS.
• Registered Safety and Health Officer (SHO) with DOSH is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enforce safety policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Ensure highest safety standards and healthy work environment for employees, visitors, vendors and contractors.
• Implement and monitor Permit-to-Work system for authorized, controlled operations.

Skills

Regulatory compliance

EHS knowledge

Incident investigation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Occupational Safety & Health or related field

Job description

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• a) Develop and enforce safety policies, procedures and guidelines to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and legislation.
• b) Ensuring the highest safety compliance standards and health work setting for employee, visitors, vendors and contractor.
• c) Implement, monitor and enforce the Permit-to-Work system to ensure all operational activities conducted by employee and contractors are properly authorized, controlled and comply with safety requirement.
• d) Workcloselywith managementtoensurethatsafety isapriority throughouttheorganization.
• e) Coordinatewithsafetycoordinatortoensuresafeoperationofmachinery andproperuseof PPE.
• f) Supervisethesafetycommitteeand ensurecompliancewithsafety policies.
• g) Organizeandcoordinatethesafetycommitteesandothersafety-relatedmeetings.
• i) Conduct regular safety inspections and audits of facilities and equipment to identify hazards and potential risks
• j) Investigate accidents, incidents and near miss event to determine the root cause and take corrective action to prevent recurrence.
• k) Coordinate the Emergency Response Plan (ERP) including developing fire system, evacuation plans and procedures including emergency drills (fire, chemical).
• l) Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of safety strategies, plans, HIRARC, safe work procedures and adjust as needed.
• m) Prepare and review safety performance monitoring reports, records and documentation in accordance with DOSH requirements and company policies.

QUALIFICATIONANDEXPERIENCE:

• a) A bachelor’s degree in Occupational Safety & health, Chemical Engineering, Environmental Science, or related field.
• b) Minimum2-5yearsexperiencesinsafetyrole, regulatorycompliance,EHS
• c) PossessingaGreenBookregistrationwithDOSHisadvantageous.
• d) FamiliaritywithDOE,DOSHguidelines&ISO9001/14001/45001standards.
• e) RegisteredSafety andHealthOfficer(SHO)withDOSH(Malaysia).