Environmental Health Safety Specialist

Job Summary

The Environmental Health and Safety Specialist/Trainer provides training to new employees, staff, and supervisors in all areas of safety and health. This role manages all training records and confirms staff are trained per OSHA regulations. Responsibilities also include management of the emergency clinic, assisting with first aid response, and facilitating GEMBA audits and Safety Committee meetings for both plants. This role must be bilingual in Spanish and able to translate written and spoken words.

Essential Functions & Responsibilities

• Models and promotes an organizational culture that fosters safe practices through effective leadership.
• Promotes continuous improvement of the hazard identification and safety risk assessment activities.
• Runs the Safety Committee.
• Manages the Return to Work Program (light duty).
• Works with operations to reduce and prevent worker's compensation claims.
• Administers new hire and employee training to ensure compliance with governmental safety regulations and industry standards, including (not an all-inclusive list):
  • Hazard Communication Program
  • Exposure Control Program (Bloodborne Pathogens, TB)
  • Hazard Assessment and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Program
  • Lockout & Tagout (LOTO)
  • Confined Space Entry Program
  • Emergency Action Plan Conduct
• Manages all safety training records electronically as well as physical documents for audit.
• Manages inspection records of all life safety equipment in facility for audit.
• Facilitates the inspections, surveys, and audits of the workplace to identify and eliminate hazards from processes such as unsafe work methods and exposure to potentially hazardous materials.
• Provides and articulates information regarding safety issues within the facility.
• Bi-lingual Spanish/English.
• Able to translate documents from English to Spanish or vice versa.
• Acts as an information conduit to bring safety issues to the attention of management and to deliver safety information to the facility's staff, contractors, and stakeholders.
• Analyzes technical data for trends related to hazards, events, and occurrences.
• Measures the effectiveness and seeks to continually improve the quality of the safety programs, performing audits of LOTO, PPE, and Industrial Hazards.
• Engages and interacts with all personnel on safety matters.