Enviromental Health and Safety Manager

Location: Tecumseh

Summary:

Health & Safety Manager develops, administers, and implements company wide occupational safety programs, and serves as the coordinator for the occupational safety programs within one or more divisions and/or departments. The Health & Safety Manager plans, designs, develops, implements, and evaluates departmental occupational safety programs within one or more divisions.

Core Competencies

Customer Focus

Communication

Energy and Stress

Team Work

Problem Solving

Accountability and Dependability

Ethics and Integrity

Analytical

Job Duties

Establishes and maintains environment, health and safety objectives, targets, legal, management programs and control procedures to ensure compliance with the legislation

Stays current with all legislated safety training

Develops, reviews, implements, and maintains required Environment and Health and Safety policies and procedures by managing them to meet requirements

Drives health and safety by motivating employees to promote awareness and provide leadership on issues of health and safety

Fosters new ideas to improve the safety program as well as reduce the environmental footprint of the facility

Reduces or eliminates workplace accidents/incidents

Coordinates, develops, issues and controls Environmental Management System documents

Conducts weekly and monthly environment, health and safety inspections and measures all aspects of environment, health and safety and audit compliance with the respective programs

Promotes a safe working environment by coordinating plant inspections and reporting statistics

Evaluates new projects or modifications to existing processes for potential effects to the environment or workers’ health and safety through checklists and reviews work with the project managers and JHSC Union Representative

Identifies all environmental aspects relating to facility operations and their associated impacts

Secures environmental approval from regulatory agencies for processes and activities regarding certificates of approval and waste class registration

Identifies and organizes all required environment, health and safety training to all existing and new employees (as required) to ensure due diligence

Arranges, records and maintains records of waste manifests and hazardous waste transfers and coordinates transactions to ensure that all are reconciled and they are performed according to applicable legislation

Classifies wastes and determines methods of proper disposal of waste materials according to the Ministry of Environment guidelines

Identifies and contracts inspection of storm water and sanitary sewer discharges

Identifies, maintains, and updates inventory of hazardous materials through record keeping

Submits National Pollutant Release Inventory (NPRI) and Regulation 127 reports to the Ministry of Environment yearly, including calculations for the reports

Prepares or contracts annual waste generation reports

Identifies the need for environmental and industrial hygiene equipment in the facility and coordinates appropriate consultants and contractors to complete inspection, emissions and testing projects

Represents the organization in environmental, health and safety issues to the Ministry of Environment and Ministry of Labour on an occasional basis and communicates externally with other agencies relating to environment, health and safety issues

Audits, tracks and enforces WHMIS training and workplace practices

Reviews and oversees MSDS document maintenance and upkeep

Reviews Health, Safety and Environmental Contractor Agreements in accordance with the requirements of the facility

Identifies health and safety concerns by surveying operations, occupational conditions, investigating violations and recommending prevention programs

Ensures safety concern process as outlined in the Collective Agreement is being complied with

Complies with all applicable legislation and regulations by advising management on needed actions

Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications

Presents prompt response to WSIB claims, ensuring early safe return to work for claimants

Schedules, reviews, and oversees the onsite Emergency…