Compliance Assistance Specialist.

Duties

The major duties for this position include but are not limited to the following:

• Reviews, observes, and inspects on-site working conditions of Voluntary Protection Program (VPP) applicants and program participants.
• Identifies, analyzes, evaluates findings, and recommends actions needed to resolve or abate hazardous conditions, exposures, and practices.
• Provides technical assistance to develop and incorporate effective leveraging strategies into compliance assistance program initiatives, ensuring that such initiatives are consistent with agency strategic plan and customer service goals.
• Presents training and/or outreach materials, evaluates the outcomes of such efforts, and reports the outcomes in relation to the strategic plan and customer service goals.
• Provides on-going technical assistance developing and incorporating effective leveraging strategies for outreach program initiatives, ensuring that such initiatives are consistent with the Agency's strategic plan, Regional operations plan, and unit goals.
• Aids in identifying areas of intervention based on analysis of data and needs assessments, recommends intervention strategies, program evaluation and impact measures.
• Cofirms creative partnerships with workers, employers, other federal agencies, insurance companies, safety, and health professional groups, trade associations, and others interested in improving workplace conditions.
• Describes and explains OSHA national programs and policies to the general public, associations, etc.
• Cofirms responses, and interacts with other Federal, State, and local agencies.
• Plans, develops, and implements the Regional Office external training program to and in conjunction with regional staff and a variety of stakeholders.

Requirements

Conditions of employment:

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Requires a valid driver's license.

Qualifications

This series has an Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR):

• Education: Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- 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 Experience: (for positions above GS-5): 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. Examples of qualifying specialized experience include: 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 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.
• OR Certificates: Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), or Certified Health Physicist (CHP), or similar certification that included successful completion of a written examination meets the requirements for GS-5.

Skills

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Specialized Experience is defined as:

• Conducting occupational safety and health inspections to ensure employer compliance with federal OSHA standards;
• Developing written and/or electronic inspection case files to substantiate identified hazards and/or citations;
• Providing technical advice, guidance or training to employers, employees, labor representatives or other interested parties regarding safe/healthful working conditions, the improvement of operations and/or facilities or voluntary compliance with OSHA's enforcement regulations.