Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)

Department: Environment, Health & Safety (EHS)
Industry: Pre-Engineered Building (PEB) / Steel Fabrication
Location: PEB Manufacturing Plant
Reporting To: Plant Head / EHS Manager

1. Job Purpose

To ensure a safe and healthy working environment across the PEB manufacturing plant by implementing EHS policies, maintaining statutory compliance, preventing workplace accidents, and promoting a strong safety culture among employees, contractors, and visitors.

2. Key Responsibilities

A. Health & Safety

• Implement and monitor EHS policies, procedures, and safe work practices throughout the plant.
• Conduct daily safety inspections of fabrication, welding, cutting, grinding, drilling, painting, and material-handling areas.
• Ensure proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by employees and contractors.
• Conduct Job Safety Analysis (JSA), Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (HIRA), and toolbox talks.
• Monitor machine guarding, electrical safety, lifting operations, crane safety, and forklift movement.
• Ensure safe working practices for work at height, hot work, confined spaces, and work involving hazardous energy.
• Investigate accidents, incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions; implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Conduct emergency drills, fire safety inspections, and first-aid awareness programs.
• Monitor contractor safety and ensure compliance with site safety requirements.

B. Environmental Management

• Monitor proper disposal of scrap steel, welding electrodes, used oil, paint waste, and other hazardous waste.
• Ensure compliance with applicable environmental regulations and pollution control requirements.
• Monitor air emissions, dust, noise, and paint-booth ventilation where applicable.
• Maintain records of waste generation, disposal, and authorized vendor documentation.
• Promote housekeeping, spill prevention, and resource conservation.

C. Statutory Compliance

• Ensure compliance with applicable Indian occupational safety, health, environmental, and factory-related legislation.
• Maintain required EHS registers, inspection reports, training records, permits, and incident documentation.
• Coordinate statutory inspections, safety audits, and corrective actions.
• Verify applicable fire safety, electrical safety, lifting equipment, and pressure equipment inspection requirements.

D. Training & Awareness

• Conduct safety induction for new employees, contract workers, and visitors.
• Organize toolbox talks and periodic EHS training.
• Train employees on PPE, fire prevention, emergency response, chemical handling, and safe material handling.
• Display safety signage and communicate lessons learned from incidents.

E. Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain daily inspection checklists, incident reports, risk assessments, and permit-to-work records.
• Prepare monthly EHS performance reports, including accidents, near misses, unsafe acts, and corrective actions.
• Track safety observations and ensure timely closure of non-conformities.
• Support internal and external EHS audits and management reviews.

3. PEB Plant-Specific Safety Focus

• Steel coil unloading, storage, and handling.
• EOT cranes, overhead cranes, slings, shackles, and lifting tackles.
• CNC plasma/oxy-fuel cutting, shearing, drilling, and punching machines.
• Welding, grinding, and fabrication operations.
• Roof-sheet and wall-cladding production lines.
• Paint shop, thinner, solvent, and chemical handling.
• Forklifts, trailers, and movement of long steel sections.
• Electrical panels, earthing, lockout/tagout (LOTO), and machine isolation.
• Fire prevention, hot-work permits, and emergency preparedness.

4. Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in Engineering, preferably Mechanical, Electrical, or Industrial Safety-related discipline.
• Recognized Industrial Safety qualification, as applicable to the position and statutory requirements.
• Knowledge of EHS management systems and applicable Indian safety legislation.