Safety Specialist Pooling

Job Description:

Company Description

Aboitiz Foods is an integrated regional food and agribusiness company dedicated to creating a high-performance culture anchored on our time-honored values of Integrity, Teamwork, Innovation, and Responsibility. Through the collective strengths of our subsidiaries, Pilmico and Gold Coin, we believe in sustainably feeding Asia's growth from mill to meal. We are constantly improving and optimizing our processes by integrating the value chain around Asia. We leverage our sector expertise and capabilities to deliver quality every time. With our world-class technology and culture of constant innovation, we devote ourselves to serving you better. At Aboitiz Foods, we embrace change and inspire innovation, leading the way in food and agribusiness solutions. Join us as we shape the future of food in Asia and build a culture where, together, we nourish the future.

Job Description

The Safety Specialist is responsible for implementing and continuously improving the company's occupational Safety, Health and Environmental (SHE) programs within the company's feed milling operation. The position ensures that employees, contractors, facilities, equipment, and production processes are protected from workplace hazards and that the company complies with applicable occupational safety, health, environmental, and regulatory requirements. The Safety Specialist conducts regular workplace inspections, hazard identification and risk assessments, and safety audits covering feed mill operations, including raw material receiving and storage, batching, grinding, mixing, pelleting, packaging, warehousing, maintenance, utilities, and material handling activities. The role recommends and implements appropriate control measures to prevent accidents, injuries, occupational illnesses, environmental incidents, equipment damage, and property loss.

Main Duties & Responsibilities

• Recommend, implement, and maintain occupational Safety, Health, and Environmental policies, programs, procedures, and standards appropriate to feed mill operations.
• Conduct routine safety inspections, hazard identification, risk assessments, and compliance audits throughout the facility.
• Identify hazards associated with machinery, electrical systems, dust, noise, chemicals, confined spaces, working at heights, hot work, material handling, vehicle movement, and other feed mill activities.
• Recommend and monitor the implementation of the hierarchy of controls, including engineering, administrative, and personal protective equipment (PPE) controls.
• Ensure machine guarding, lockout/tagout, emergency equipment, fire protection systems, PPE, signage, and other safety controls are properly implemented and maintained.
• Support the safe design and modification of work areas, equipment, processes, and facilities by reviewing potential safety risks before implementation.
• Develop and conduct safety orientation, toolbox meetings, training, drills, and awareness programs for employees and contractors.
• Investigate accidents, incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions; determine root causes; and recommend corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor compliance with company safety rules, safe operating procedures, permit-to-work requirements, and applicable legal and regulatory standards.
• Prepare, consolidate, maintain, and submit required occupational safety and health reports, notifications, applications, certificates, records, and other regulatory documents to DOLE and other applicable government agencies within prescribed deadlines.
• Prepare and coordinate the submission of required fire safety reports, inspection documents, compliance requirements, permits, certifications, and other regulatory documentation to the BFP, as applicable to the facility.
• Coordinate and assist during DOLE, BFP, and other regulatory agency inspections, audits, assessments, and site visits, ensuring that required documents and records are readily available.
• Implement and monitor the Permit-to-Work (PTW) system for high-risk and non-routine activities, including hot work, confined space entry, work at height, electrical work, equipment isolation, line breaking, excavation, and other activities requiring formal authorization.
• Monitor work activities covered by PTWs to ensure that employees and contractors strictly comply with the approved permit conditions, control measures, safe work procedures, and applicable company safety requirements.
• Conduct field verification and periodic audits of active permits and stop or suspend work immediately when unsafe conditions, deviations from permit requirements, or uncontrolled hazards are identified.
• Maintain accurate safety records, inspection reports, incident reports, training records, risk assessments, and other require