This is a stand alone position in the Risk Management series. Incumbents coordinate and monitor safety and health programs for an assigned department(s) and coordinate and present safety improvement opportunities. Responsibilities may include developing, documenting, and implementing safety training programs; auditing safety and health program; tracking on the job injury reports, incident reports, and near misses; investigating accidents; ensuring safety equipment is available and properly maintained; inspecting job sites; maintaining records of safety information; preparing operational reports; and performing the duties of the lower level.

Essential Functions:

• Facilitates safety training and safety audit programs, which includes determining course content, coordinating training efforts, conducting safety audits, and monitoring program compliance with internal and external regulations.

• Conducts inspections on department facilities, work areas, equipment, vehicles, and life safety equipment.

• Creates curriculums and conducts employee safety training.

• Provides guidance in the interpretation of safety and health policies and regulations.

• Investigates accidents to determine cause factors, determining future risk, and conducting follow-up investigations when necessary.

• Keeps records of safety-related incidents and proposes corrective actions.

• Prepares and maintains operational documents, records, and audit reports, including Safety Data Sheets.

• Develops and implements a safety audit program for assigned department(s) which includes delegating safety related changes to supervisors, preparing audit reports, and performing related duties.

• Performs other duties of a similar nature or level.

Education and Experience

• Associate degree in Occupational Safety and Health or a related field.

• Two (2) years of experience in risk management, occupational safety and health. or safety and loss control.

• An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to perform the job's essential duties.

License and Certifications

• Possession of a valid Class D driver’s license.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND STANDARDS REQUIRED

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Knowledge of:

• Health and safety principles and requirements.

• Risk determination and analysis principles, control, and communication techniques.

• Applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

• Knowledge of principles and methods for curriculum and training design, teaching and instruction for individuals and groups, and the measurement of training effects.

• Investigative techniques.

• Recordkeeping principles.

• Program coordination principles.

• Computers and related software applications.

• Knowledge of arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and their applications.

Skill in:

• Coordinating programs.

• Interpreting and analyzing applicable Federal, State, and local laws, rules, and regulations.

• Conducting investigations, adjustments, and risk assessments.

• Delivering and managing training programs.

• Compiling, analyzing, organizing, and evaluating facts and data and making appropriate recommendations based on findings.

• Maintaining records and reports.

• Using a computer and related software applications.

• Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one.

• Communication, interpersonal skills as applied to interaction with subordinates, coworkers, supervisor, the public, etc. sufficient to exchange or convey information and to give and receive work direction.

Physical Requirements:

The work is light work which requires exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or up to 10 pounds of force frequently to or constantly to move objects. Additionally, the following physical abilities are required:

• Feeling: Perceiving attributes of objects, such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips.

• Fingering: Picking, pinching, typing, or otherwise working, primarily with fingers rather than with the whole hand as in handling.

• Grasping: Applying pressure to an object with the fingers and palm.

• Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discrimination sound.

• Kneeling: Bending legs at knee to come to a rest on knee or knees.

• Lifting: Raising objects from a lower to a higher position or moving objects horizontally from position-to-position. It occurs to a considerable degree and requires substantial use of upper extremities and back muscles.

• Mental Acuity: Making rational decisions through sound logic and deductive processes.

• Reaching: Extending hand(s) and arm(s) in any direction.

• Repetitive Motion: Substantial movements (motions) of the wrist, hands, and/or fingers.

• Speaking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including the ability to convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately and concisely.

• Standing: Particularly for sustained periods of time.

• Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word including those activities in which they must convey detailed or important spoken instructions to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.

• Visual ability 1: sufficient to perform an activity like preparing and analyzing data and figures; transcribing; viewing a computer terminal; and/or extensive reading.

• Walking: Moving about on foot to accomplish tasks, particularly for long distances or move from one work site to another.