Report on Health and Safety Advisor Job Description, HRM Assignment

This report focuses on the job description of a Health and Safety Advisor within a construction organization, emphasizing the importance of this role in maintaining workplace safety. It outlines the needs of the position, detailing responsibilities such as risk evaluation, policy development, and trai...Read More

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Table of Contents
Job position................................................................................................................................3
Description of needs of the position...........................................................................................3
Job description...........................................................................................................................3
Compensation and benefit package............................................................................................4
Reference list..............................................................................................................................6

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Job position
Health and safety adviser
Description of needs of the position
Health and safety adviser (H&S adviser) is the position where hiring is required in the
construction organization. This position is essential for the firm because it helps in keeping
people safe within the worksite (Nielsen, 2014). H&S advisors generally make policies and
rules to make sure that employees do not get harmed by their jobs and investigate and report
the occurrence of accidents. They also provide guidance to employees and leaders about
complying with laws and rules about safety (Li, Jiang, Yao & Li, 2013). Thus, the risk of
accidents can be avoided by recruiting in this position and the organization can comply with
national standards of health and safety.
Job description
Responsibilities associated with this position:
❏ Evaluating potential risks and developing plans for reducing risk
❏ Outlining the safe practices by considering all the hazards related to the business
❏ Developing health and safety policies for the company
❏ Checking whether the policies are being implemented properly or not
❏ Leading the training of managers, leaders, and employees about H & S issues and
processes to mitigate issues
❏ Keeping records of inspection and past accidents
❏ Producing bulletins, newsletters, and reports for management
❏ Advising on different specialist areas including noise, hazard substances, fire
regulations, occupational diseases, and safeguarding machinery
Salary:
❏ Salary for this position is 24000 USD to 32000 USD at the beginning

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Working hours:
❏ Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 5 pm
Qualification required:
❏ Postgraduate course completed in H & S management
Experience required:
According to Chen, Zhang, Qiu, Guizani & Hao (2018), a company can rely on an
experienced H & S officer for maintaining a safe and healthy workplace. Following
experience required for the position of H & S adviser,
❏ Construction
❏ Manufacturing
❏ Risk evaluation and risk management
Skills required:
❏ Excellent reading, writing and communication skills
❏ Ability to listen carefully and understand others’ opinion
❏ IT skills
❏ Negotiation skills for convincing internal stakeholders to follow H & S policies
❏ Ability to cope up with changes
❏ Ability to conduct an in-depth investigation about potential risks
❏ Ability to work collaboratively
❏ Ability to be patient at the workplace
❏ Ability to respect stakeholders of all levels equally
❏ Physical fitness and driving license (required in the case, u may need to drive to
different sites for investigating risks)
Compensation and benefit package

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H&S adviser is an exempt job and should get a fixed amount of money per month at a
regular time interval. As said by Oswald, Wade, Sherratt & Smith (2019), skilled jobs like
professional and management are generally classified as exempt jobs and a higher salary is
offered for these jobs. The starting salary for this position is 24000 USD to 32000 USD. The
adviser is also liable to achieve a hike in salary upon increase if experience and on the basis
of performance.
Moreover, this position will also receive different benefits, which include medical
insurance, life insurance, and retirement plans. In addition, H&S advisers are also liable to
achieve other benefits like vacation pay, holiday pay, maternity leave and bonuses on various
occasions. On the other hand, other intangible benefits would also be offered to the H&S
adviser. This includes promotion, proper office environment and others that help to increase
employee satisfaction.

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Reference list
Chen, M., Zhang, Y., Qiu, M., Guizani, N., & Hao, Y. (2018). SPHA: Smart personal health
advisor based on deep analytics. IEEE Communications Magazine, 56(3), 164-169.
Retrieved from: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~minchen/min_paper/2018/2018-IEEE-
Comm-SPHA.pdf
Li, F., Jiang, L., Yao, X., & Li, Y. (2013). Job demands, job resources and safety outcomes:
The roles of emotional exhaustion and safety compliance. Accident Analysis &
Prevention, 51, 243-251. Retrieved from:
http://ir.psych.ac.cn/bitstream/311026/10656/2/WOS_000315617000032.pdf
Nielsen, K. J. (2014). Improving safety culture through the health and safety organization: A
case study. Journal of safety research, 48, 7-17. Retrieved from:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022437513001552
Oswald, D., Wade, F., Sherratt, F., & Smith, S. D. (2019). Communicating health and safety
on a multinational construction project: challenges and strategies. Journal of
Construction Engineering and Management, 145(4), 04019017. Retrieved from:
https://arro.anglia.ac.uk/703599/11/Sherratt_2018_8.pdf