Safety Officers are responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing company’s employee safety at work. Their main duty is to ensure that the company is in compliance and adheres to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) guidelines. Safety officers evaluate and monitor health and safety hazards and develop strategies to control risks in the workplace. They inspect construction sites to ensure compliance with workplace safety regulations and those for the handling and storage of hazardous substances. In smaller organizations, safety officers may also perform other tasks. Safety officers perform some or all of the following duties: review physical, biological and chemical workplace hazards; conduct safety and environmental audits; investigate health-and-safety-related complaints, spills of hazardous chemicals, outbreaks of diseases or poisonings, and workplace accidents.

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