Profession transport health and safety inspector

Transport health and safety inspectors are responsible for maintaining safety standards, reducing risk to company, staff and customers and achieving industry standards. They evaluate existing security systems to determine potential risks in all transport sectors such as road and sea transport, and develop policies and procedures that minimise the risk to properties, employees and computer systems.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Realistic
• Realistic / Conventional
• Enterprising / Conventional

Knowledge

• Health and safety measures in transportation

  The body of rules, procedures and regulations related to health and safety measures intended to prevent accidents or incidents in transportation.

• SA8000

  Know Social Accountability (SA) regulations, a global standard to guarantee the basic rights of workers; provide healthy and safe working conditions.

Skills

• Develop a health and safety prevention plan for road transport

  Develop a prevention plan to avoid potential risks for health and safety from occurring.

• Have a high level of safety awareness

  Ensure high levels of safety awareness; use personal protection equipment; communicate with staff members and provide advice on health and safety issues.

• Conduct environmental surveys

  Conduct surveys in order to collect information for analysis and management of environmental risks within an organisation or in a wider context.

• Perform risk analysis

  Identify and assess factors that may jeopardise the success of a project or threaten the organisation's functioning. Implement procedures to avoid or minimise their impact.

• Prepare audit activities

  Prepare an audit plan including both pre-audits and certification audits. Communicate with the different processes in order to implement the improvement actions that lead to certification.

• Build business relationships

  Establish a positive, long-term relationship between organisations and interested third parties such as suppliers, distributors, shareholders and other stakeholders in order to inform them of the organisation and its objectives.

• Encourage teams for continuous improvement

  Empower teams to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and then drive the process to improve the results.

• Foster compliance with health and safety rules by setting an example

  Set a personal example to colleagues by following HSE rules and implementing them in daily activities.

• Maintain updated professional knowledge

  Regularly attend educational workshops, read professional publications, actively participate in professional societies.

• Manage vehicle cleaning plan

  Manage a vehicle cleaning plan, implement quality assurance and set cleaning standards, look after materials and equipment, comply with the fleet health and safety principles.

• Consider ergonomic aspects of urban transportation

  Consider ergonomic aspects of urban transportation systems, affecting both passengers and drivers. Analyse criteria such as access to entrances, exits, and stairs of transport units, ease of displacement within the unit, access to seats, seat space for the user, form and material composition of the seats and the backrests, and the distribution of seats.

• Assess transport risks

  Identify health and safety risks for the transport sector.

• Develop appropriate health and safety measures in accordance with available resources

  Develop measures to enhance health and safety matters, considering the available resources. Carry out a cost benefit analysis to find the proper balance between ensuring health and safety and the cost of these measures.

• Adhere to OHSAS 18001

  Know and follow the standards of Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems. Strive to implement practices that reduce the risk of accidents in the workplace.

• Manage health and safety standards

  Oversee all personnel and processes to comply with health, safety and hygiene standards. Communicate and support alignment of these requirements with the company's health and safety programmes.

• Monitor legislation developments

  Monitor changes in rules, policies and legislation, and identify how they may influence the organisation, existing operations, or a specific case or situation.

• Develop environmental policy

  Develop an organisational policy on sustainable development and compliance with environmental legislation in line with policy mechanisms used in the field of environmental protection.

• Develop contingency plans for emergencies

  Compose procedures outlining specific actions to be taken in the event of an emergency, taking into account all the risks and dangers that could be involved, ensuring that the plans comply with safety legislation and represent the safest course of action.

Source: Sisyphus ODB