Ventilation and Hygiene Superintendent

Tharisa Plc; Noordwes; Presencial; ZAR 600 000 - 900 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

Tharisa Plc seeks an experienced professional to lead ventilation and occupational hygiene systems at the Tharisa Minerals underground operations. The role covers strategic planning, survey scheduling, problem solving in ventilation factors, and ensuring compliance with Mine Health and Safety Act and other regulations.

The incumbent will oversee ventilation construction programs, emergency planning updates, and reporting, while driving cost-efficient designs for airways, fans and refrigeration,

Responsabilidades

• Conduct ventilation and occupational hygiene strategic planning
• Ensure routine survey schedules exist
• Effectively manage Ventilation resources by providing guidance and direction
• Investigate and solve serious problems in ventilation or occupational hygiene factors (e.g., airflow changes, temperature rises, gas intersections) at Tharisa UG shafts
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of underground main and auxiliary fans and dust suppression systems for compliance with Mine standards and legislation
• Investigate and provide recommendations on ventilation designs and technologies
• Devise contingency plans for underground fires, including evacuation plans and zoning
• Update Incident Control Room emergency planning information quarterly
• Coordinate ventilation construction programs for effective ventilation of all working areas
• Ensure occupational hygiene monitoring functions and audits are conducted within prescribed timeframes
• Ensure effective ventilation and occupational hygiene control and reporting
• Provide specialist knowledge to management to resolve hygiene-related issues
• Compile blasting schedules and re-entry intervals to validate set times
• Implement and manage heat and cold stress management
• Minimize operating costs by designing appropriate airway/fan/refrigeration sizes
• Address pollutants to prevent health hazards and ensure comprehensive health risk assessments
• Ensure timely compilation and submission of all relevant reports to applicable departments

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Purpose of Role

To ensure the effective implementation and maintenance of ventilation and occupational hygiene systems to ensure adherence to all organisational standards and applicable legislation at the Tharisa Minerals underground operations. Conduct ventilation surveys, radiation, and Occupational hygiene surveys to verify routine measurements conducted by Ventilation officers.

Purpose of Role

To ensure the effective implementation and maintenance of ventilation and occupational hygiene systems to ensure adherence to all organisational standards and applicable legislation at the Tharisa Minerals underground operations. Conduct ventilation surveys, radiation, and Occupational hygiene surveys to verify routine measurements conducted by Ventilation officers.

Role Context

Safety, Health, Environment and Quality

• Manage SHEQ compliance within the Section
• Utilise the Information Management System (IMS) to initiate, investigate, and report SHEQ status

Ventilation Management

• Conduct ventilation and occupational hygiene strategic planning
• Ensuring that routine survey schedules exist
• Effectively manage Ventilation resources by providing guidance and direction
• Investigate and solve serious problems encountered in ventilation or other occupational hygiene factors in Tharisa UG shafts e.g. major changes in airflow, temperature increases, gas intersections etc.
• Monitor and evaluate the performance of the underground main and auxiliary fans and dust suppression systems to maintain optimum efficiency and ensure compliance with Mine standards and Legislation.
• Investigate and provide recommendations on specific ventilation designs and technological developments
• Devise contingency plans for underground fires that may occur. This includes evacuation plans, zoning of section, etc.
• Ensure that emergency planning information in the Incident Control Room is updated on a quarterly basis
• Manage and coordinate the ventilation construction program to ensure effective ventilation of all working areas
• Ensure that all occupational hygiene monitoring functions and audits stipulated by the Mine Health and Safety Act and regulations are performed within time prescribed parameters
• Ensure effective ventilation and occupational hygiene control and reporting
• Provide specialist knowledge and advice to all levels of management to identify and resolve a wide range of occupational hygiene related issues.
• Compile blasting schedules conduct re-entry intervals to quantify the validity of the set times.
• Implement and manage heat and cold stress management
• Ensure that operating costs are minimized through proper designing the accurate size of airways, fans and refrigeration.
• Ensuring that all pollutants are addressed before they could be health hazards and that risk assessments are covering all health-related hazards generated at Tharisa UG.
• All relevant reports are compiled on time and sent to the applicable departments.

Compliance Management

• Ensure that operating standards and procedures are appropriate, entrenched and applied through regular audits and inspections as per organisational and legal requirements
• Ensure that all Ventilation activities are performed in line with the Mine Health and Safety Act, Minerals Act, ODMWA, COIDA, Water and Environment and Pollution Acts and DME guidelines

SHEQ Administration and Reporting

• Monitor trend ventilation and occupational hygiene related statistics and interpret results
• Ensure that reports on ventilation and occupational hygiene work done in section are scrutinised, collated and verified
• Ensure compliance to all statutory requirements