25 duties of safety officer

Safety staffs are:

  1. Communication officer because we contact with lots of people every day and keep informed about everything
  2. Engineer because everyone explain us what they do and where are the risks. Thus we’ve informed about almost all workplaces and technologies which are being used at Company’s premises
  3. Friend of people, I never seen that my safety staffs have lunch alone
  4. Traveler of the Company - All employees want to travel through Company’s premises same like us and walk away from their desk or workplace for a while but they can’t
  5. Master in negotiation – Most people love to tell us problem and want to use us to fix their problem because Management listens us.
  6. Leader - Employees follow unconsciously and do what we say because they accept Safety employees are Leaders
  7. Amateur lawyer – We study to work about legislation and learn sth. by rote
  8. Powerful employee who can fire or reward the employees
  9. Journalist when we do posters and monthly bulletins
  10. Teacher who conducts safety training
  11. Photographer who shoots best practices
  12. Designer when prepare the presentations, signs or reports
  13. Insurance officer when conduct incident investigation
  14. Auditor when preparing for Client’s due diligence
  15. Paramedic when treat first aid case
  16. Fire fighter when extinguishes or holds practical firefighting training
  17. Navigator for new employees during his/her first safety induction at Company
  18. Planner to schedule toolbox meetings, presentations and topics
  19. Procurement officer who finds safety items
  20. Warehouse man who provide PPE
  21. Finance officer when control our budget
  22. Guide who knows what is where
  23. PR officer who advertises Company’s safety record to community and share best practices to other Companies at meetings
  24. Visionary person who guess what hurt the people
  25. Yellow book in the Company – we know about who is who because contacted/trained/mentored all people at Company’s site…

I love it because its one of the most diversified job in the world…

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Ganjiguur Bukhbat

TheSafetyPoster.com