Environmental Health and Safety Specialist III; KFH​/HP

Overview

Independently develops, implements, and oversees strategies and programs to enable compliance with applicable federal, state, and local Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) regulatory requirements, and organizational EH&S and Workplace Safety (WPS) policies and standards. Contributes to the success of Environmental Health and Safety programs through implementation, evaluation, monitoring, and enhancement. Contributes to employee safety and protection through independent implementation of Environmental Health and Safety programs and training efforts.

Ensures high-quality service by resolving standard issues and acting as a resource on EH&S and WPS matters. Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by developing and implementing best practices for identifying, analyzing, documenting, and communicating standard and nonstandard workplace environmental health and safety risk trends. Prepares high-quality analysis and reports regarding the state of environmental health and safety. Ensures risk control by interpreting general guidelines to promote workplace safety and compliance and evaluate the effectiveness of measures to improve workplace safety outcomes.

• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members. Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members. Pursues self-development; creates plans and takes action to capitalize on strengths and develop weaknesses; influences others through technical explanations and examples. Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work;
  
  helps others adapt to new tasks and processes. Supports and responds to the needs of others to support a business outcome.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives. Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information. Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations. Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for team.
• Adapts to and learns from change, challenges, and feedback; demonstrates flexibility in approaches to work; helps others adapt to new tasks and processes.
• Collaborates cross-functionally to solve business problems; escalates issues or risks as appropriate; communicates progress and information.
• Independently adheres to compliance standards by developing, implementing, and overseeing strategies and programs to enable compliance with applicable federal, state, and local EH&S regulatory requirements, and organizational EH&S and WPS policies and standards; serving as a liaison for inspections and surveys (e.g., TJC, EPA, DOHS, OSHA, State Fire Marshall, county inspections), identifying downstream impacts for compliance; upholding Kaiser Permanente Policies and Procedures and Principles of Responsibilities;
  
  planning, scheduling, and contributing to best practices for regulatory reports; identifying opportunities for process improvements to enable efficient compliance.
• Supports training and continuous learning about EH&S by actively seeking training and development opportunities; presenting safety education and training programs for management and staff; conducting competency assessments to measure training effectiveness.
• Completes work assignments autonomously by applying up-to-date expertise in subject area to generate creative solutions; ensures all procedures and policies are followed; leverages an understanding of data and resources to support projects or initiatives.
• Listens to, seeks, and addresses performance feedback; provides mentoring to team members.
• Engages in safety practices by educating employees, leaders, and other key stakeholders on employee safety; reporting, investigating, and analyzing employee safety incidents; conducting safety-related activities; implementing changes to the employee safety program.
• Plans and schedules work related to Health and Safety programs independently by implementing EH&S programs; conducting standard and nonstandard assessments and analyses; making significant recommendations to enhance existing programs.
• Identifies, speaks up, and implements ways to address improvement opportunities for the team.
• Supports, identifies, and monitors priorities, deadlines, and expectations.
• Pursues effective relationships with others by proactively providing resources, information, advice, and expertise with coworkers and members.
• Recognizes and assesses hazards and risks by developing and implementing best practices for standard and nonstandard assessments and data analysis; preparing high-quality analysis and reports; enabling…