Job Description
- Monitoring current and potential health and safety risks and hazards in the workplace, participating in corporate-level hazard assessments, and developing and approving controls for identified hazards
- Keeping up to date with legislative and industry developments and keeping the health and safety program up to date
- Monitoring and addressing compliance with all health and safety legislation
- Creating, circulating, and enforcing a hazard assessment process, accident investigation procedures, as well as other health and safety policies, practices, and procedures
- Leading or participating in the investigation of workplace accidents and non-compliance
- Recommending and approving corrective actions after incidents or as a result of identified non-compliance
- Tracking incident metrics and identifying trends
- Ensuring the competition of various health and safety reports for internal and external clients
- Providing advice and direction to employees and management on how to minimize or ultimately avoid risks and hazards in the workplace
- Offering general health and safety advice to all employees
- Providing first aid to injured employees and managing emergency response when an employee's injury severity exceeds first aid
- Monitoring and managing worker compensation claims, focusing on early return to work
- Managing prescribed emergency procedures, such as fire drills and scope specific emergency tests
- Identifying appropriate health and safety training for different hierarchical levels and ensuring all employees have adequate training for the job at hand
- Delivering health and safety training and presentations, including new hire orientations
- Organizing safety meetings
- Ensuring safety inspections and audits are completed at the prescribed intervals and that corrective actions are taken to correct identified deficiencies
- Identifying criteria for contractor selection and monitoring contractor compliance and management
30+ days ago