Project Safety Coordinator

Overview

The Project Safety Coordinator should be a highly motivated, hands-on team player with the ability to enforce and regulate all safety requirements to ensure a safe working environment and strive to prevent any injuries and accidents.

• Provide day-to-day safety guidance, promote safety awareness and ensure compliance with safety and health laws, codes, regulations and standards;
• Identify conditions, actions or work practices that may cause injury, illness, property damage or potential public exposures and recommend corrective measures;
• Conduct and document weekly project specific safety inspections and daily safety walks, including general safety observations, validation of safe work practices, feedback and review with job site employees;
• Participate in field supervisor’s weekly Toolbox Talks;
• Participate and audit daily safety huddles including pre-shift stretching exercises and pre-task planning;
• Participate in subcontractor specific pre-construction meetings, review subcontractor safety plans and review the project specific safety requirements with the subcontractor;
• Attend and participate in OAC (owner, architect and contractor) progress meetings;
• Participate in OSHA consultation and compliance inspections;
• Manage and enforce subcontractor and vendor safety programs; review and monitor hot work permits, confined space entry permits and procedures, and lock-out/tag-out permits and procedures; distribute notification of approval to begin steel erection documentation; and distribute notification of acceptance of guardrail systems documentation;
• Update and maintain project specific records and safety statistics, including but not limited to: job site OSHA 300 log, job site incident rates, and first aid logs and summaries;
• Order Personal Protective Equipment, First Aid, and Safety Supplies;
• Maintain and update Safety Data Sheets (SDS);
• Develop and evaluate emergency action and evacuation plan, conduct periodic drills to ensure effectiveness and ensure crisis management plan is in place;
• Oversee job site visits and tours, escort jobsite visitors when feasible and escort all news media while onsite;
• Schedule and conduct project specific safety orientation and ongoing training as required;
• Maintain training documentation, including but not limited to: competent person designation, hoisting operators licensing requirements, forklift certifications, and other certifications as required;
• Investigate and document all incidents, ensure documentation from subcontractors if required, follow up with needed corrective actions and participate in incident reviews as required, report all incidents to safety claims administrator;
• Traverse uneven surfaces and negotiate changes in elevation while walking on a construction site in order to make visual observation of safety conditions throughout the site;
• Accompany injured workers to appropriate medical providers and ensure that all work restrictions are understood and followed;
• Ability to travel frequently and remain eligible to operate a company vehicle or a personal vehicle for company purposes per Fleet Safety Management policy;
• Any other duties as assigned.

• Ability to effectively communicate with and lead a diverse team, including employees, peers, customers, vendors, and business partners;
• Ability to effectively perform the assigned job duties while performing consistent, repetitive motion including but not limited to: standing, sitting, walking, climbing (stairs, ladders, etc.), bending, twisting, holding items with an extended hand(s), and lifting;
• Ability to demonstrate company's core values, operating principles and service differentiators through daily activity;
• Ability to foster an environment of teamwork and cooperation and a culture of workplace safety;
• Ability to build and enhance relations with surrounding residences and businesses to maintain an “open door” policy on communication with both field supervision and the safety department;
• Effective written, verbal, and email communication skills;
• Computer and mobile device literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint;
• Ability to maintain…