Health and Safety Specialist - Associate

Health and Safety Specialist Responsibilities

• Identify, design and develop company health and safety management systems, training programs, and procedures and enforce regulatory regulations and company policies.
• Monitor, revise and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws or reporting requirements.
• Provide technical safety and health support and information to all employees to ensure a safe, orderly and clean environment.
• Coordinate and administer safety training initiatives for the company to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, DOT (if applicable) and all other regulatory requirements.
• Coordinate risk assessment and accident investigation activities including record keeping and analyze risk assessments, near miss, and accident data to present to senior management team.
• Lead health and safety meetings, present data, record actions and maintain progress on actions.
• Review injury/illness and non-injury incident investigation reports and follow up as necessary.
• Administer mandatory environmental, health and safety training and ensure all newly hired employees, agency employees, contractors, visitors and transferred employees receive proper training.
• Work with operational teams to improve the working environment, reduce impacts to employees from operational activities and recommend process and product safety features that reduce exposure to work hazards.
• Conduct internal audits, workplace inspections and health & safety tours to prescribed frequency ensuring compliance to audit standards and answer findings and complaints in timely, efficient and professional manner.
• Inspect facilities, machinery and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards and ensure safety and environmental regulation compliance and review plans and specifications for new machinery, equipment or processes to determine all safety requirements have been met.
• Develop and maintain emergency preparations and responses and serve as a member of the First Aid/CPR Responder/ERT teams.

• Degree in Occupational Safety and Health or related field, health and safety experience or exposure to health and safety in a fast paced warehouse/manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated knowledge of health, safety and environmental regulatory requirements as it pertains to federal, state, provincial and local agencies.
• Experience developing and administering health and safety programs.
• OSHA 10 Hour or basic knowledge of plant safety and current First Aid/CPR First Responder Training a plus.
• Ability to work and be flexible and available for on call hours before and/or after normal business hours in addition to off-shift hours as required.
• Computer literate – MS applications.