Senior Safety Specialist,Consultation Job Carson City area,Nevada USA,Government

Position: SENIOR SAFETY SPECIALIST, CONSULTATION

Safety Specialist

The Department of Administration's Risk Management Division is seeking a Safety Specialist in the Carson City area. This position promotes recognized safety practices among businesses and state agencies covered by state and federal health and safety laws and regulations. The incumbent is expected to work independently with minimal training and will manage safety reviews for all state buildings, monitor outside vendors providing loss prevention, loss control, and ergonomic evaluation services, and conduct and review accident investigations related to workers' compensation injuries.

Additional responsibilities include developing the annual safety report, coordinating quarterly safety meetings with agency safety coordinators, planning and coordinating the annual safety conference, creating training modules, and compiling statistical data on accident causation.

Safety Specialists, Consultation promote and consult on recognized safety practices for a single State agency, a regulatory program directed toward external entities, or in the State's Risk Management Division.

Essential

Qualifications:

Three or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties and graduation from high school or equivalent education.

Job Duties:

Conduct surveys of employer sites at the employer's request and conduct pre-inspection reviews.

Identify potential hazards and recognized control and abatement procedures.

Meet with employes to discuss visit's purpose, rights and responsibilities, and other pertinent information.

Review and evaluate written workplace safety programs for compliance, specificity, comprehensiveness, and implementation effectiveness.

Evaluate and analyze overall working and environmental conditions and work processes for compliance.

Sample common health hazards when identified hazards are imminently dangerous and take necessary steps to ensure employees are removed from danger.

Discuss the adequacy of workplace safety programs, identified hazards, standards not met, the feasibility of engineering controls and abatement alternatives, and issue non-penalty citations as appropriate.

Influence employers to take preventive or corrective actions and assign abatement periods in which serious regulatory violations must be corrected.

Make recommendations to enhance safety management systems.

Communicate with employers to promote change in management philosophy, organizational culture, work processes, and other areas.

Document findings and recommendations in comprehensive reports.

Provide informal on-site instruction on a variety of topics.

Conduct activities for a regulatory program directed toward external entities.

Analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur.

Conduct surveys or compliance inspections involving multiple disciplines and state-of-the-art processes.

Act as a team leader by assigning and reviewing work, training, and providing input to performance evaluations and discipline.

Perform related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Ability to: perform comprehensive surveys or compliance inspections in all industry classifications; originate feasible means of abatement in unique situations. Motivate employers to take proactive steps to achieve workplace safety; deliver presentations to defend findings and recommendations; understand and communicate the rationale behind a wide variety of safety and health standards; analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur.

Review work products for quality, quantity, and timeliness; analyze information, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to define objectives, identify relevant concerns, formulate logical conclusions, and recognize alternatives and their implications.

The State of Nevada is an equal opportunity employer dedicated to building diverse, inclusive, and innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. All applicants are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion or belief, age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, domestic partnership, genetic information (GINA), or compensation and/or wages.

Benefits include:
Health Insurance:
Medical, dental, life, and disability insurance programs for employees and their dependents/family are offered through the Public Employees' Benefits Program (PEBP). Vacation:
Accrual of three weeks of annual leave each year. Sick Leave:
Accrual of three weeks of sick leave each year. Holidays: 12 paid holidays per year. Retirement:
Participation in the Nevada Public Employees Retirement System (PERS). Employees do not contribute to Social Security but will contribute to PERS if their position is at 50% or more full-time equivalency. For more information on how PERS service may impact Social Security benefits, visit the SSA publication (Download PDF…

Senior Safety Specialist, Consultation