Health & Safety Specialist

Summarized Purpose:

The Health & Safety Specialist supports all aspects of environmental, health and safety programs. Facilitates a collaborative approach to implementing and maintaining programs with site management. Ensures safe practices and regulatory compliance. May assist with monitoring various metrics, audit readiness or conducting compliance training and inspections. Participates in recommendations for corrective action plans and feasible solutions to new or changed regulations.

Major Job Responsibilities:

• Practices and enforces good safety practices. Responds to inquiries and provides follow-up to health, safety, and environmental issues to site management.

• Ensures that all licensing, permitting, or other environmental, health or safety requirements are met and takes appropriate actions to ensure that any non-compliance issues are resolved.

• Maintains up to date knowledge and ensures that procedures meet federal, state, and local requirements (i.e. OSHA, EPA, DOT, etc.) Develops and/or updates all health and safety related mandated procedures for assigned facilities.

• Updates site management on new or changed regulations in a timely manner. Participates in determining recommendations on feasible solutions and alternatives for compliance.

• Ensures safe removal and disposal of hazardous/biological waste from facility on a regular basis. Maintains and monitors waste manifest system. Completes reporting forms and documents for all required regulatory agencies.

• Develops and conducts employee health and safety training programs, including refresher trainings as required by regulations.

• Conducts regular walk-downs and yearly self-assessments of assigned facilities and conducts employee health hazard exposure monitoring to ensure OSHA compliance. Handles all ergonomic related issues. Makes recommendations as appropriate.

• Collaborates with corporate Worker’s Compensation Administrator to supply information on related claims to insurance company. Assists management in conducting work-related injury/illness investigations.

• May lead Health & Safety committees, act as Radiation Safety Officer, maintain controlled substance program, evaluate/maintain all safety equipment, coordinate fire drills and/or work with assigned site on CAP inspections or other audit related inspections (OSHA). Works with the Pandemic Committee on site contact tracing and overseeing testing and vaccination processes related to COVID-19. Oversees other vaccination and testing requirements for the site. Familiarity with College of American Pathologists (CAP) inspection process is recommended.

Summarized Purpose:

The Health & Safety Specialist supports all aspects of environmental, health and safety programs. Facilitates a collaborative approach to implementing and maintaining programs with site management. Ensures safe practices and regulatory compliance. May assist with monitoring various metrics, audit readiness or conducting compliance training and inspections. Participates in recommendations for corrective action plans and feasible solutions to new or changed regulations.

Major Job Responsibilities:

• Practices and enforces good safety practices. Responds to inquiries and provides follow-up to health, safety, and environmental issues to site management.

• Ensures that all licensing, permitting, or other environmental, health or safety requirements are met and takes appropriate actions to ensure that any non-compliance issues are resolved.

• Maintains up to date knowledge and ensures that procedures meet federal, state, and local requirements (i.e. OSHA, EPA, DOT, etc.) Develops and/or updates all health and safety related mandated procedures for assigned facilities.

• Updates site management on new or changed regulations in a timely manner. Participates in determining recommendations on feasible solutions and alternatives for compliance.

• Ensures safe removal and disposal of hazardous/biological waste from facility on a regular basis. Maintains and monitors waste manifest system. Completes reporting forms and documents for all required regulatory agencies.

• Develops and conducts employee health and safety training programs, including refresher trainings as required by regulations.

• Conducts regular walk-downs and yearly self-assessments of assigned facilities and conducts employee health hazard exposure monitoring to ensure OSHA compliance. Handles all ergonomic related issues. Makes recommendations as appropriate.

• Collaborates with corporate Worker’s Compensation Administrator to supply information on related claims to insurance company. Assists management in conducting work-related injury/illness investigations.

• May lead Health & Safety committees, act as Radiation Safety Officer, maintain controlled substance program, evaluate/maintain all safety equipment, coordinate fire drills and/or work with assigned site on CAP inspections or other audit related inspections (OSHA). Works with the Pandemic Committee on site contact tracing and overseeing testing and vaccination processes related to COVID-19. Oversees other vaccination and testing requirements for the site. Familiarity with College of American Pathologists (CAP) inspection process is recommended.

Education/Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2 years). Solid knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, ICAO, and other applicable regulations Knowledge of worker's compensation requirements, laboratory and hazardous waste regulations to include hazardous chemical/biohazard storage and disposal regulations Good understanding of air monitoring strategies Strong presentation skills and the ability to provide effective training Strong problem solving skills Strong written and verbal communication skills Good judgement and business acumen Good computer skills

Job Knowledge: Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.

Job Complexity: Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.

Supervision/Freedom to Act: Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Interaction: Contacts are primarily internal to the company with infrequent external customer / vendor contact on routine matters. Builds productive internal / external working relationships.

Management: No management responsibility

Working Conditions/Environment: Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

Physical Requirements: Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Frequent mobility required. Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck. Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf. Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups. Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration. Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task. Regular and consistent attendance.

Education/Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (comparable to 2 years). Solid knowledge of OSHA, EPA, DOT, ICAO, and other applicable regulations Knowledge of worker's compensation requirements, laboratory and hazardous waste regulations to include hazardous chemical/biohazard storage and disposal regulations Good understanding of air monitoring strategies Strong presentation skills and the ability to provide effective training Strong problem solving skills Strong written and verbal communication skills Good judgement and business acumen Good computer skills

Job Knowledge: Developing professional expertise, applies company policies and procedures to resolve a variety of issues.

Job Complexity: Works on problems of moderate scope where analysis of situations or data requires a review of a variety of factors.

Supervision/Freedom to Act: Normally receives general instructions on routine work, detailed instructions on new projects or assignments. Exercises judgment within defined procedures and practices to determine appropriate action.

Interaction: Contacts are primarily internal to the company with infrequent external customer / vendor contact on routine matters. Builds productive internal / external working relationships.

Management: No management responsibility

Working Conditions/Environment: Work is performed in an office environment with exposure to electrical office equipment. Occasional drives to site locations with occasional travel both domestic and international.

Physical Requirements: Frequently stationary for 6-8 hours per day. Repetitive hand movement of both hands with the ability to make fast, simple, repeated movements of the fingers, hands, and wrists. Frequent mobility required. Occasional crouching, stooping, bending and twisting of upper body and neck. Light to moderate lifting and carrying (or otherwise moves) objects including luggage and laptop computer with a maximum lift of 15-20 lbs. Ability to access and use a variety of computer software developed both in-house and off-the-shelf. Ability to communicate information and ideas so others will understand; with the ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. Frequently interacts with others to obtain or relate information to diverse groups. Works independently with little guidance or reliance on oral or written instructions and plans work schedules to meet goals. Requires multiple periods of intense concentration. Performs a wide range of variable tasks as dictated by variable demands and changing conditions with little predictability as to the occurrence. Ability to perform under stress. Ability to multi-task. Regular and consistent attendance.