Occupational Health & Safety Specialist

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If you’re a hands-on safety professional who wants your work to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you. Join TRIUMF as an OHS Specialist and work on the ground with researchers, trades, and contractors to turn safety principles into everyday practice in a unique, high-impact research environment.

OHS Specialist is a facility-based, boots-on-the-ground health and safety professional. They serve as on-site safety representatives for assigned facilities, acting as the primary point of contact for everyday OHS matters. They focus on implementing and maintaining operational safety activities. Their duties include participation in work permit approvals, inspections/audits, emergency response, corrective actions, and space management efforts, among other responsibilities.

• Support the Implementation, and maintenance of OHS policies, procedures, and programs.
• Support work permits programs (hot work, confined space, electrical, controlled access, etc.) for tasks performed in assigned facilities.
• Ensure permit conditions are met on-site and coordinate with supervisors/permit holders to close permits appropriately.
• Perform and document regular facility inspections/audits (daily, weekly, monthly as assigned), identify hazards, and raise corrective actions.
• Lead decluttering and housekeeping initiatives at the facility level to reduce hazards, combustible loading, signage, and improve safe access and egress.
• Track corrective actions to closure and verify effectiveness on-site.
• Record, assign, and follow up on corrective actions stemming from inspections, audits, Noncompliance Reports, or incidents.
• Support supervisors and other workers to plan and implement remedial measures, ensuring documentation and verification.
• Participate in risk assessments, safety audits, and job hazard analyses for work in assigned areas and provide practical mitigation input.
• Prepare required documentation and support preparation of regulatory reports as directed by OH&S manager.
• Assist delivering OHS training programs for employees, researchers, and contractors.
• Coordinate and conduct safety drills, program testing, and emergency response exercises.
• Lead and/or significantly support incident and emergency responses and support investigations of workplace incidents, accidents, and near-misses to determine root causes and implement preventive measures.
• Act as the primary local point-of-contact for OHS matters within assigned facilities, escalating broader or systemic issues to the OH&S Manager.

• Strong observational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize multiple tasks in a busy facility environment.
• Demonstrated experience conducting workplace inspections, hazard identification, and corrective action tracking.
• Experience reviewing and approving common work permits and observing permit compliance on-site.
• Ability to communicate…