【Main Purpose】
The Safety Officer is a field-based HSE professional responsible for ensuring that construction activities on the Japan project are planned, permitted, executed and reported safely at the work face.
The role must understand the actual works, read drawings, method statements, risk assessments and permits, identify practical hazards before they become incidents, and work with supervisors and contractors to implement safe solutions.
The successful candidate must be visible on site, firm on unsafe work, clear in English reporting, and able to turn observations and incidents into closed corrective actions rather than simply listing problems.

【Duties & Responsibilities】
This is a site-execution role. The job holder must be visible on site, understand the actual works, verify the field condition against the drawings, and drive issues to closure with practical options.
●Work-face HSE control
- Inspect active construction work fronts daily, with priority on high-risk activities including lifting, work at height, excavation, hot work, confined spaces, energization, temporary works and simultaneous operations.
- Verify that approved method statements, risk assessments, JSA/JHA, permits to work and toolbox talks match the actual work being performed.
- Stop unsafe work when there is imminent danger, missing permit control, uncontrolled energy, unsuitable access, poor lifting control or unacceptable contractor behavior.
- Confirm that PPE, access, barricading, signage, housekeeping, emergency equipment and welfare arrangements are suitable and maintained.
●Training, engagement and incident prevention
- Conduct site inductions, toolbox talks, targeted safety briefings and refresher training based on actual site risks and incident trends.
- Coach supervisors and contractors on practical hazard recognition, safe sequencing and corrective actions that can be implemented immediately at the work face.
- Investigate incidents, near misses and unsafe conditions using root-cause thinking; identify preventive actions, owners and due dates.
- Promote quality hazard observations and near-miss reporting, with feedback to the workforce so that reporting leads to visible improvement.
●HSE reporting, compliance and emergency readiness
- Maintain accurate inspection records, permit records, training records, incident reports, corrective-action logs and HSE dashboards.
- Prepare clear daily HSE reports in English, including observations, high-risk activities, stop-work events, incidents, actions, owners and due dates.
- Escalate serious incidents, high-potential near misses, repeated non-compliance and life-critical control failures immediately to site management.
- Plan and participate in emergency drills, evacuation exercises and first-aid response reviews; capture lessons learned and ensure closure.
●Key Performance Indicators - initial project targets
Targets are to be reviewed after the first 90 days and calibrated to the approved project baseline, contract requirements, and actual site risk profile.
- Zero fatality and zero life-threatening uncontrolled event; 100% high-potential events escalated within 1 hour.
- 100% of high-risk work verified as covered by approved PTW/JSA/method statement before start.
- Daily HSE inspection report completed for 100% of active construction days.
- >=95% corrective actions closed by due date; critical actions closed or made safe within 24 hours and high-risk actions within 72 hours.
- 100% site induction completion before worker access; toolbox talk attendance recorded for planned high-risk activities.
- Monthly HSE dashboard issued on time, including manhours, TRIR/LTIFR trend, near misses, inspections, actions, training and key risks.
- Emergency drills completed according to plan, with lessons learned issued within 3 working days and actions tracked to closure.