Project Safety Representative

Career Opportunities with Kent Companies

To promote and facilitate safety and uniformity across the entire company structure. The project safety representative helps to create a safety culture where an "Incident Free Environment" is the only acceptable outcome. Facilitate, promote, and supply necessary resources to the field, collaborating with Operations Managers and Superintendents to implement safety programs. Convey to all company personnel that every injury, property damage, or near miss results from an underlying unsafe hazard or action that was not addressed, corrected, or eliminated.

Coordinate uniform and consistent safety compliance across divisions, ensuring all safety standards are met through participating in safety events, orientation, safety training, reviewing all safety incidents, performing job site inspections, job hazard analyses, etc.

• Participate in safety events, stand-downs, orientation of all employees, and training as required. Participate in safety team meetings and project safety committees to help leadership drive behavioral changes in the project to reduce incidents.
• Assist in reviewing all accidents, injury, and near-miss investigations. Work with the field personnel involved to determine whether the underlying safety hazards or conditions resulting from the incident were addressed and corrected.
• Assist or conduct the Toolbox Talks program. Assist and communicate the need for custom Toolbox Talks that address recent incidents or hazards in the field.
• Perform and document job site inspections/audits. Complete safety inspection/observation, including a written summary of safety hazards or unsafe conditions and how they were abated. Support the data collection and analysis of relevant safety metrics. Distribute the finished report to the project team, field personnel, and safety manager.
• Support worker's compensation/auto accident/property damage claims on assigned job sites.
  • Investigate all injuries, property damage, and auto accidents.
  • Transporting injured employees to and from doctor/clinic visits.
  • Ensure medical treatment is being followed.
  • Oversee the company’s mandatory post-accident drug screening.
  • Implement the Return-to-Work Program
  • Submit reports to safety manager and workers compensation specialist.
• Assisted in executing the Kent Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) program.
• Ensures that mandatory training has been completed on time and is documented. Inform the safety coordinator, safety manager, or senior safety training coordinator/manager to schedule retraining and license or permit renewals as needed.
• Maintains and enforces Site Specific Safety Plans
  • Hold job site meetings to instruct the employees on the hazards and safety procedures unique to that job. (i.e., deck construction, shoring, and fall protection)
  • Review Site Specific Safety Plans with the project team
  • Understand the project scope.
• Serve as a resource person and representative for Kent’s field safety officers (superintendents, foremen, and crew leaders).
• Creates, assists, and reviews Job Hazard Analyses before each task/activity/work performed.
• Assist in addressing safety issues or concerns to contractor personnel, project team, and the safety team (safety coordinator, safety manager).
• Familiarity with general contractor, local, state, and federal safety regulations and standards (OSHA, EPA, etc.)
• Enforcing the General Contractors' rules and regulations for the project while holding Kent employees and subcontractors accountable (OSHA, EPA, etc.).
• Report safety issues or challenges to the Safety and Project Teams and propose solutions to keep projects on track.
• Maintain training records, inspection sheets, audits, and other documents related to the project.
• Ensure that all safety equipment is in good condition and that safety procedures are followed when using equipment.

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties and Responsibilities are not comprehensive and can be changed at any time, with or without notice.