Safety Technician- Austin Industrial (Phoenix,AZ

Safety Technician
- Austin Industrial (Phoenix,AZ)

Austin Industrial provides premier self-perform maintenance, construction, and soft craft service to leading industrial companies across the U.S. An industry leader for more than 60 years, we offer single-source solutions to our customers in the oil, gas, chemical, food, agriculture, power, and manufacturing industries.

Responsibilitiesfordevelopingandimplementingsafetypolicies,conducting training,andensuringcompliancewithhealthandsafetyregulationstocreateasafeworkplaceenvironment.
Construction:With high-risk tasks like working at heights, heavy machinery operation and managing hazardous materials, construction companies require rigorous safety oversight.
Manufacturing:Factories and production facilities have complex machinery and operational hazards. Safety managers ensure that production lines are not only efficient but also safe.
Oil and Gas:In an industry known for its high risks, safety managers implement strict protocols to prevent accidents and environmental hazards.
Transportation and Utilities:These sectors face challenges such as hazardous materials, extreme weather conditions and evolving regulatory standards that require vigilant safety management.

Specific

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Select and assign staff to separate roles, ensuring equal opportunities in
  hiring and in promotion.
• Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondence
  relative to the job.
• Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programs
  and policies/procedures.
• Organize and take part in assessing already existing safety
  programs and policies, assessing accident/injury reports, and arranging
  accident/injury-related statistics.
• Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need
  arises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and other
  avenues for improvement.
• Identify the training and development needs of company staff.
• Coordinate various activities like scheduling work assignments,
  monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting clear priorities.
• Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to find out possible
  unsafe conditions.
• Collaborate with company medical services unit to provide and
  organize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff.
• Establish target areas and long-term accident prevention and cost control goals.
• Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound
  to have effect on the organization.
• Function as a representative of the company when it comes to society or
  industry safety programs.
• Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as required
  by the government’s safety rules and regulations.
• Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safety
  instructions before they start work, emphasize, and explain any
  form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions.
• Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis at workplace
  that ensures calmness.
• A good safety manager must be someone who pays attention to the
  smallest of details to prevent accidents and/or injuries.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills. This is to
  enable relevant information about different situations to be properly and necessary actions.
• Must possess and display an elevated level of organizational and coordinating
  abilities at all times.
• He/she must be someone that is able to prioritize tasks (especially in the
  case of always putting safety first)
• Must possess the power of persuasion. Most times it is not enough to be
  able to communicate but to also do so in an effective manner. In the
  process of explaining safety policies, good persuasion skills are
  to pass the message across properly.
• Possess BS or BA in safety management or in any other related field of
  study, while an MS will be an added advantage.
• Recognized certification(s) in risk management and safety/health
  management.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Applicants must be legally authorized to work for ANY employer in the United States. Austin is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa for this position.

Qualifications Required for this Position:

Experience
– 4 years of maintenance and construction…