Duties of safety and health officers

Regulation 18. Duties of safety and health officers.
It shall be the duty of a safety and health officer-

(a) to advise the employer or any person in charge of a place of work on the measures to
be taken in the interests of the safety and health of the persons employed in the place of
work;

(b) to inspect the place of work to determine whether any machiney, plant, equipment,
substance, appliances or process or any description of manual labour used in the place
of work, is of such nature liable to cause bodily injury to any person working in the place
of work;

(c) to investigate any accident, near-miss accident, dangerous occurrence, occupational
poisoning or accupational disease
which has happened in the place of work;

(d) to assist the employer or the safety and health committee, if any, pursuant to
regulation 11 of the Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee)
Regulations 1996 [P.U.(A) 616/96] in organizing and implementing occupational safety
and health programme at the place of work;

(e) to become secretary to the safety and health committee, if any, as specified under
subregulation 6(2) of the Occupational Safety and Health (Safety and Health Committee)
Regulations 1996, and perform all functions of a secretary as specified in that
Regulations;

(f) to assist the safety and health committee in any inspection of the place of work for the
purposes of checking the effectiveness and efficacy of any measures taken in
compliance with the Act or any regulations made under the Act;

(g) to collect, analyse and maintain statistics on any accident, dangerous occurance,
occupational poisoning and occupational disease which have occured at the place of
work;

(h) to assist any officer in carrying made by the employer or any person in charge of the
place of work on any matters pertaining to safety and health of the place of work.

p/s so that mean training worker about safety or etc is not the SHO work.