Safety Coordinator

Job Description

Division:
Service Department

Position:
Safety Coordinator

Reports To: VP of Operations

Employee Type:
Full-time, Exempt

Job Summary

The Safety Manager is responsible for a full range of activities ensuring operation effectiveness and excellence in all areas of business administration. The primary function of the Safety Coordinator is to ensure that checks and balances within the scope of safety management are maintained in a fashion compliant with OSHA regulations and are consistent with the quality management system.

Essential Duties

Policy Development

• Continuously monitors industry and regulatory publications for safety related topics and current events in order to periodically review, maintain, and update the company safety manual and safety policies.
• Works with the quality manager, area managers, and executive management to align company policies and programs with new regulatory paradigms.
• Reviews data collected from internal and external reports and other resources tore commend improvements to safety policies and programs.
• Outlines and communicates individual and departmental responsibilities for effective oversight of safety program management and execution, including reporting requirements, incident and accident response protocol, and corrective measures for continuous improvement.
• Works with document control to release and publish new versions of policy documents and ensures that older versions are removed from circulation.

Incident and Accident Monitoring, Investigation, Reporting and Risk Management

• Serves as main point of contact for federal and state regulatory agencies for safety inquiries.
• Defines criteria for best investigative practices and leads all investigative efforts arising from incident and accident reports.
• Documents investigations and findings in accordance with the quality management system, including performing a root cause analysis for each reported incident and consolidating data for all incidents to see and respond to small and large scale trends.
• Ensure employees and their managers adhere to mandatory probationary measures invoked as a result of an incident or accident. This may include:

• Prepares monthly reports of personnel injury trends, analysis of causal factors, and recommendations for corrective and preventive actions.
• Works with the quality manager, area managers, and executive management to develop plans for prevention of reported incidents and accidents.
• Works with compliance and legal department for executing and managing claims processes relating to safety accidents.
• When necessary, communicate with regulatory agencies and business partners the results of investigations and response plans.

Safety Inspections, Reporting, Job Hazard Analyses, and Job Task Analyses

• Maintains OSHA log for all company locations.
• Perform periodic inspections of company facilities to identify latent conditions and employee practices which are or cold become workplace hazards.
• Completes and maintains job or site hazard analysis (JHA) records and works with quality and human resources management to mitigate hazards and/or enhance awareness of hazards in the work environment.
• Develops job task analyses (JTAs) for each employee position and work with human resources to incorporate JTA data into recruitment and onboarding.
• Coordinate’s location visits with insurance and broker partners as required.
• Works with the quality manager to develop a system of auditing job files to identify vulnerabilities such as undesirable cost and schedule impacts.

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