Safety and Occupational Health Specialist

Summary Employee will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist located at the Southwest Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) - Veterans Healthcare System in Tucson - AZ.

Summary Employee will serve as a Safety and Occupational Health Specialist located at the Southwest Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacy (CMOP) - Veterans Healthcare System in Tucson - AZ.
Qualifications Applicants must meet at least one of the following minimum qualification requirements to qualify for this Safety and Occupational Health Specialist GS-11 position. SPECIALIZED

EXPERIENCE:

Requires one full year of specialized experience in or related to safety and occupational health that provided the specific knowledge - skills - and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. To be creditable - specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level (GS-9) in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Qualifying specialized experience includes:
Managing safety or occupational health program elements. Developing and recommending safety and occupational health policy to higher levels of management. Applying safety and occupational health laws - regulations - principles - theories - practices - and procedures to advise on or resolve technical matters dealing with occupational safety and health requirements. Developing safety and occupational health standards - regulations - practices - and procedures to eliminate or control potential hazards.

Developing or implementing programs to reduce the frequency - severity - and cost of accidents and occupational illnesses. Analyzing or evaluating new and existing jobs - processes - products - or other systems to determine the existence - severity - probability - and outcome of hazards. Designing or modifying workplaces - processes - products - or other systems to control or eliminate hazards.

Inspecting or surveying workplaces - processes - products - or other systems for compliance with established safety and occupational health policies or standards and to identify potential new hazards. Training of workers - supervisors - managers - or other safety and occupational health personnel in safety or occupational health subjects. Work in occupational fields such as industrial hygienist - safety engineer - fire prevention engineer - health physicist - and occupational health nurse.

NOTE:

Resume(s) must clearly support the qualifying experience to receive credit. We will not make assumptions regarding experience. For additional position details - please review the announcement duties section. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION FOR EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED):
Successfully completed a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree Or LL.M.

- if related. Education must include a Major study in safety or occupational health fields (safety - occupational health - industrial hygiene) - or degree in other related fields that included or was supplemented by at least 24 semester hours of study from among the following (or closely related) disciplines: safety - occupational health - industrial hygiene - occupational medicine - toxicology - public health - mathematics - physics - chemistry - biological sciences - engineering - and industrial psychology.

OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE (TRANSCRIPT REQUIRED):
Equivalent combinations of successfully completed graduate education (in excess of 2 years) and experience as described above may be used to meet total qualification requirements. For more information on these qualification standards - please visit the United States Office of Personnel Management's website at https://(Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Your experience must be fully documented on your resume and must include job title - duties - month and year start/end dates AND hours worked per week.

A full year of work is considered to be 35-40 hours of work per week. Part-time experience will be credited on the basis of time actually spent in appropriate activities. Applicants wishing to receive credit for such experience must indicate clearly the nature of their duties and responsibilities in each position and the number of hours a week spent in such employment.

IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE - PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR…