Safety Manager

The Safety Manager is responsible for managing and overseeing the City’s Safety, Health, Environmental, and Workers’ Compensation programs. This position ensures compliance with applicable federal, state, and local regulations; promotes a culture of safety across all City departments; and works proactively to reduce workplace injuries, illnesses, and environmental risks. The Safety Manager serves as the City’s subject matter expert on occupational safety, environmental health, and workers’ compensation administration.

• Develops and distributes safety, health, and environmental policies and procedures; reviews and updates as necessary; trains personnel as needed.
• Leads and directs incident investigations, including investigations of vehicle accidents, employee injuries, and near-misses; documents incidents and prepares related reports.
• Oversees and manages investigations of employee injury, vehicle accidents, property damage, and near misses.
• Analyzes incident trends, creates correlations between job tasks/descriptions, and tailors City wide communication to mitigate the known incident causation(s).
• Maintains incident reporting and investigation software for the City.
• Ensures root cause analysis, corrective actions, and documentation that all are completed accurately and promptly.
• Coordinates workers’ compensation program activities; documents and reports employee injuries; works with workers’ compensation administrators to ensure employees receive proper care.
• Conducts safety and health training; develops safety training programs including training documents; ensures the delivery of safety training courses.
• Develops and performs safety audits and inspections of various activities; inspects facilities; audits processes to verify the inclusion of safety activities; performs follow-up actions to ensure discrepancies are corrected.
• Leads and directs a variety of safety and health teams associated with the safety and health program; leads and directs the Safety and Health Committee; conducts meetings and training sessions for committee members, spill response teams, and supervisors.
• Develops and delivers safety newsletters; develops safety and health advisories as needed.
• Serves as the City’s primary point of contact for regulatory agencies and leads responses to inspections, citations, and compliance actions.
• Workers’ Compensation Oversight:
  • Manages the City’s Workers’ Compensation Program, ensuring accurate reporting, timely claims management, and all coordination with third party administrators.
  • Monitors injuries and employee participation in their own care plans to ensure prompt recovery while maintaining quality care and expedient closure of claims.
• Training and
  
  Education:
  • Develops and delivers safety and health training programs for all Laboring City Departments (excluding Police and Fire unless necessary and requested by Safety Manager’s Direct Report).
  • Ensure supervisors and employees receive required regulatory equivalent training (the City’s current stance is that we are not monitored or responsible to say, OSHA).
  • Evaluates training effectiveness and updates materials as needed.
  • Provides leadership skill training to Directors, Mangers, and Supervisors at least annually for root-cause analysis, proper response to incidents (to include investigations), and other topics as requested or realized in need.
• Inspections and Managing Risk:
  • Plans and conducts safety “walk-abouts” focusing on: facility inspections, job hazard analysis, and focus on Citizen Safety to the same degree as Worker Safety.
  • Tracks findings, creates Corrective Actions for implementation, and supports efforts with Departmental Budgeting and request from council (as needed).
  • Monitors new employee’s progression through probationary period for safety consciousness and makes coaching recommendations when there is a need.
  • Provides coaching recommendations to employees with multiple incidents (injuries or other).
• Leadership and
  
  Collaboration:
  • Establishes and leads the City’s Safety and Health Committee and other safety-related teams.
• Communication & Reporting:
  • Develops safety newsletters, advisories, and communication materials.
  • Prepares…