Environmental Research Safety Specialist, Senior

Overview

Department:
Non Enterprise Corporate - Environmental Health and Safety

Status:
Full time

Benefits Eligible:
Yes

Hours Per Week: 40

Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm. After normal business hours during any emergency events.

Pay Range: $44.15 - $66.25

Note:

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected and may include other related duties.

About Advocate Health:
Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards and is a national leader in clinical innovation, health outcomes, consumer experience and value-based care.

Role Summary

The Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) – Research Senior Safety Specialist is responsible for the organization, implementation, documentation, program direction, and continuous improvement of Academic and Research safety operations. This role ensures compliance with regulations and institutional policies and provides direction in achieving outcomes consistent with the organization’s goals, mission, philosophy, and objectives within the Enterprise and Regional protocols, regulatory, accreditation, standards, and best practices.

• Manage and oversee portions of the Accreditation Environment of Care (TJC), and/or Physical Environment (DNV) Safety programs for multiple Advocate facilities. Act as liaison for all chapters (Safety, Security, Hazardous Materials/Waste, Clinical Engineering, Fire Safety and Utilities) within the program. Coordinate and chair the Environment of Care or Physical Environment Committee, maintain committee agendas and minutes, communicate safety updates to committee.
  
  Assists with, Occupational Health and Safety (OSHA), Environmental Compliance (EPA), Construction Safety, and Operations activities to maintain constant readiness for surveys and inspections; serves as a safety point of contact during federal, state, local and organizational surveys, and inspections. Supports regulatory agency personnel during compliance inspections.
• Interfaces with Advocate Facility Administration and Department Leadership to oversee special projects as directed by Safety Leadership and Facility Administration. Presents safety programs, safety updates, and/or training to leadership, physicians. Manage and oversee portions of the Accreditation Environment of Care (TJC), and/or Physical Environment (DNV) Safety programs for multiple Advocate facilities. Act as liaison for all chapters (Safety, Security, Hazardous Materials/Waste, Clinical Engineering, Fire Safety and Utilities) within the program.
  
  Coordinate and chair the Environment of Care or Physical Environment Committee, maintain committee agendas and minutes, communicate safety updates to committee.
  
  Assists with OSHA, EPA, Construction Safety, and Operations activities; supports compliance inspections.
• Interfaces with Advocate Facility Administration and Department Leadership to oversee special projects as directed by Safety Leadership and Facility Administration. Presents safety programs, safety updates, and/or training to leadership, physicians, vendors/contractors, and teammates. Discuss safety and risk assessment impacts to operational changes that have effects on patient safety, teammate safety, visitor safety, and life safety.
• Initiate and disseminate PCRA (Pre-Construction Risk Assessment), ICRA (Infection Control Risk Assessment) and ILSM (Interim Life Safety Measures) documentation for projects at multiple facilities. Act as liaison between Advocate Facility Administration, Clinical Departments, and Planning Designing Construction teams, providing communication to ensure overall safety of the environment for patients, teammates, visitors, vendors, and contractors.
• Generate and submit physical environment reports, safety reports, risk assessments, and any corrective action plans from regulatory and Accreditation surveys to Leadership and appropriate departments. Educate and coordinate corrective actions for any deficiencies identified during surveys, inspections, and assessments.
• Manages and completes various internal inspections of the physical environment, performs safety rounds of departments and grounds, creates work orders and purchase orders to address deficiencies and corrective actions.
• Assist with proper handling, storage, documenting, inspecting, and transportation of hazardous waste/materials within facilities. Respond to hazardous material spills and emergencies.
• Works collaboratively with other service lines to accomplish initiatives impacting patient care, patient safety, teammates, contractors, and visitor safety. Includes injury/illness prevention and corrective actions, eyewash compliance, product recalls, fire drills.
• Act as first responder for incidents at facility; maintains constant on-call response readiness and serves in multiple roles during incident command events at facility and corporate level.

• Bachelor’s Degree Environmental Health and Safety

• Minimum 5 years of experience in related…