A mining health and safety coordinator is responsible for developing, implementing, and overseeing health and safety programs to protect workers in a mining environment. They ensure compliance with government regulations, identify and mitigate hazards, conduct safety training, investigate incidents, and manage emergency procedures.
Job description
- Develop and review health and safety rules, policies and procedures in accordance with site, company and government regulations and legislation.
- Conduct inspections to ensure that health and safety requirements and governmental legislation is being followed at all times.
- Ensure that workers are up to date in training.
- Research, plan, organize and conduct training programs.
- Maintain, and report on, safety and health records and statistics.
- Monitor machine or equipment changes.
- Identify potentially hazardous situations and correct them.
- Work with management to design strategies that protect employees from workplace hazards.
- Integrate health and safety activities into pro duction efforts.
- Develop and promote the adoption of new safety training programs and practices.
- Periodically act as a team leader for task forces and teams.
- Review internal and external health and safety reports to determine areas that need improvement.
- Direct rescue and firefighting operations during emergency.
- Conduct investigations, including complaints, serious harm incidents and accidents.
- Manage non-compliance violations.
- Sample air for dust levels and determine the composition of the dust.
- Conduct ergonomics assessments in offices and in the field.
- Partner with mine managers, workers, health and safety committee members, union representatives and government inspectors to optimize the safety systems in the mine.
Health and Safety Coordinators usually have an office on the mine site but spend most of their time in the mine and/or mill, indoors and outdoors. They climb ladders and steep ramps on the surface and underground. They are often required to enter areas with physical hazards, such as noise, dust, heat and cold.
All credits to Mining Industry Human Resource Council
