SGS
10,000+ employees
Founded 1878
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
🍽️ Food & Beverage
Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage
SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) company, providing a comprehensive range of services designed to assure quality and integrity across various sectors. SGS is focused on sustainability, offering climate action services and an all-encompassing ESG portfolio under its IMPACT NOW suite. The company has ambitious targets for growth by 2027, driven by its strategy to address global megatrends. SGS operates globally, providing business assurance, connectivity and products, digital trust, health and nutrition, and solutions for industries and the environment.
Head of Global Safety, Regional H&S APAC
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SGS
10,000+ employees
Founded 1878
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
🍽️ Food & Beverage
Consulting • Healthcare • Food & Beverage
SGS is the world's leading Testing, Inspection, and Certification (TIC) company, providing a comprehensive range of services designed to assure quality and integrity across various sectors. SGS is focused on sustainability, offering climate action services and an all-encompassing ESG portfolio under its IMPACT NOW suite. The company has ambitious targets for growth by 2027, driven by its strategy to address global megatrends. SGS operates globally, providing business assurance, connectivity and products, digital trust, health and nutrition, and solutions for industries and the environment.
📋 Description
• Lead global safety operations and translate Group H&S strategy into practical priorities and implementation plans • Partner with operational leaders to integrate risk controls into work planning, supervision and daily routines • Support regions facing significant risks or performance challenges and share effective practices across countries and business activities • Head the APAC H&S agenda with cluster H&S leaders, country teams and regional business leaders • Set regional priorities based on exposure, incident trends and control effectiveness • Strengthen capability, collaboration and accountability of the APAC H&S network • Establish performance reviews across the Group and APAC using outcome measures and risk/control effectiveness indicators • Monitor incident rates, serious injury and fatality potential, high-risk exposures and improvement-plan progress • Improve H&S data, dashboards and management reporting • Provide performance and risk updates to senior leadership • Ensure incidents and near misses are reported, classified, escalated and investigated • Support serious-incident investigations and ensure underlying causes and critical-control weaknesses are identified • Monitor corrective actions through completion and verify risk reduction • Establish Group minimum control standards for high-risk activities and verify critical controls in the field • Lead rollout and development of Drive for Life, Life First, Leadershift and H&S for Frontline Leaders • Embed Rules for Life in work planning, training, supervision and field activities • Coach leaders and supervisors to recognize risk and intervene when work is unsafe • Build organizational capability through coaching, succession support and specialist knowledge sharing • Support emergency preparedness, crisis response and business continuity • Use digital tools and analytics to improve reporting and enable earlier intervention
🎯 Requirements
• At least 10 years of progressive H&S experience, including substantial leadership responsibility in a complex, multinational organisation • Proven record of improving safety performance and leading cultural change across multiple sites, countries or business units • Experience leading a regional H&S function and developing teams across different cultures • APAC experience is mandatory • Strong operational experience in environments involving field work, laboratories, inspection or other high risk activities • Demonstrated expertise in critical risk management, minimum control standards, incident investigation and verification of controls in the field • Experience establishing performance measures, management reviews and reporting that lead to effective operational decisions • Track record of designing and delivering safety programmes that improve frontline leadership capability and employee engagement • Experience with H&S management systems, proportionate assurance and integration of safety requirements into operational processes • Confidence using digital H&S systems, dashboards and data analysis to identify trends and guide preventive action • A relevant degree or professional H&S qualification, or equivalent senior level experience • Recognised certifications such as NEBOSH, CSP or CMIOSH are an advantage
🏖️ Benefits
• SGS university and Campus for continuos learning options • Benefits platform • Supportive and inclusive work environment • Professional growth and personal development opportunities • Multinational environment with colleagues from multiple continents • Global and very stable company
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