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Safety & Occupational Health Manager

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs · Portland, OR · 1 mo ago
HealthcareFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content. We have a job posting: Summary: Serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for the VA Portland Health Care System (HCS). The HCS is comprised of two large divisions with one Medical Center located in Portland - Oregon and Vancouver - Washington. Responsible for all areas of the HCS involving a wide variety of high-risk operations - facilities - and environmental conditions. **Recruitment/Relocation Incentives MAY be available to highly qualified candidates** Duties Major duties include - but are not limited to: ... (list). Then Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 7:30am - 4:00pm - PST Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position Position Description/PD#: Safety & Occupational Health Manager/PD216130 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: MAY be authorized for highly qualified applicants Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required **Recruitment/Relocation & PCS Incentives MAY be available to highly qualified candidates** We need to extract substantive info: About the role (summary), Responsibilities (duties), maybe Requirements/Qualifications/Skills not explicitly listed; we have no explicit requirements or qualifications. So we should not create those sections if no specific content. Benefits: maybe recruitment/relocation incentives may be available; but that's not a definite benefit; it's "MAY be available". The rule: never create Benefits section unless posting actually states them. It says "Recruitment/Relocation Incentives MAY be available to highly qualified candidates". That's not a definite statement; it's conditional. Should we include? The rule: "never create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections unless the posting actually states them." It says "MAY be available" which is not a definite statement; but it's still stating that incentives may be available. It's somewhat vague. I'd interpret that as not a definite benefit, so we should not create Benefits section. However we could include a short paragraph about incentives within About the role or Responsibilities? Probably better to include in About the role as a note. Pay: not mentioned. Schedule: we have Work Schedule: Monday - Friday - 7:30am - 4:00pm - PST Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. That's specific schedule info. So we should include a Schedule section with that info. We also have Position Description/PD#, Relocation/Recruitment Incentives, PCS Authorized, Financial Disclosure Report: Not required. Those are metadata; we can fold into a short

maybe under About the role or separate? The instruction: "do NOT put Job ID / requisition numbers as headings — fold minor metadata into a short

or drop it." So we can include a short paragraph with Position Description/PD#, PCS authorized, Financial disclosure not required. We must not repeat the job title as a heading. The job title is "Chief - Occupational Safety Service" maybe. We'll not use that as heading. We need to use

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    for prose. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Let's extract duties list: The incumbent serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for VAPORHCS The incumbent is responsible for directing - planning - developing and implementing comprehensives programs for Safety - Fire Protection - Green Environmental Management Systems (GEMS) - Industrial Hygiene - Occupational Health - Laser Safety - and Radiation Safety Programs The incumbent oversees - monitors and evaluates occupational health and safety activities - administratively manages the overall facility Occupational Health Section clinical staff and safety programs to provide the patients - visitors and staff of VAPORHCS with the highest attainable level of safety possible and identifies opportunities for improvement through an ongoing effort of problem identification - evaluation - resolution - monitoring and evaluation The incumbent is responsible for the supervision - planning - and direction of work operations and for directing daily operational activities including direct supervision interventions and has full responsibility for assuring efficient and economical work operations including planning the accomplishment of major and complex work operations on a long-range basis and participating in establishing long range goals and facility planning In managing the Safety personnel resources - the incumbent must be creative - tactful - fair - and impartial To effectively meet the needs of the HCS - it is necessary to establish a constructive workplace environment that maximizes morale and efficiency The incumbent will periodically hold staff meetings to solicit the flow of ideas and suggestions Additionally - the incumbent will encourage and support on-the job training and broaden incumbent training to provide back-up skills by cross-training The incumbent maintains accountability for developing - implementing - managing - and monitoring a comprehensive Safety Program as defined by agency policy which meets the Safety - OSHA - NFPA - and Life Safety requirements of both the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Joint Commission These exacting standards emphasize integration of Safety Management and clinical responsibilities - and a closed loop - safety cycle of communication and documentation for significant safety issues and incidents The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Program Manager serves as the principal source of technical expertise in the Safety - Industrial Hygiene - Environment of Care (Safety) - and Fire Protection program areas for VA Portland Health Care System (VAPORHCS) providing healthcare services to diverse client groups The OSH Program Managers leadership is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for directing/managing an integrated Occupational Safety and Health program That's a lot of prose; we can break into bullet points for duties. The instruction: Use

    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we should convert duties into a list. We need to preserve all substantive information; we can split into multiple
    • items each covering a duty. Let's identify distinct duties: 1. Serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for VAPORHCS. 2. Responsible for directing, planning, developing and implementing comprehensive programs for Safety, Fire Protection, Green Environmental Management Systems (GEMS), Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Laser Safety, and Radiation Safety Programs. 3. Oversees, monitors and evaluates occupational health and safety activities; administratively manages the overall facility Occupational Health Section clinical staff and safety programs to provide patients, visitors and staff with the highest attainable level of safety possible; identifies opportunities for improvement through ongoing problem identification, evaluation, resolution, monitoring and evaluation. 4. Responsible for supervision, planning, and direction of work operations; directs daily operational activities including direct supervision interventions; assures efficient and economical work operations; plans accomplishment of major and complex work operations on a long-range basis; participates in establishing long-range goals and facility planning. 5. In managing Safety personnel resources, must be creative, tactful, fair, and impartial. 6. Establish a constructive workplace environment that maximizes morale and efficiency. 7. Periodically hold staff meetings to solicit flow of ideas and suggestions. 8. Encourage and support on-the-job training and broaden incumbent training to provide back-up skills by cross-training. 9. Maintains accountability for developing, implementing, managing, and monitoring a comprehensive Safety Program as defined by agency policy which meets Safety, OSHA, NFPA, and Life Safety requirements of VA and Joint Commission. 10. These exacting standards emphasize integration of Safety Management and clinical responsibilities, and a closed-loop safety cycle of communication and documentation for significant safety issues and incidents. 11. The Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Program Manager serves as the principal source of technical expertise in Safety, Industrial Hygiene, Environment of Care (Safety), and Fire Protection program areas for VAPORHCS providing healthcare services to diverse client groups. 12. The OSH Program Manager's leadership is characterized by substantial and continuous responsibility and accountability for directing/managing an integrated Occupational Safety and Health program. We could combine some but it's okay. Now About the role: summary paragraph: "Serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for the VA Portland Health Care System (HCS). The HCS is comprised of two large divisions with one Medical Center located in Portland - Oregon and Vancouver - Washington. Responsible for all areas of the HCS involving a wide variety of high-risk operations - facilities - and environmental conditions. **Recruitment/Relocation Incentives MAY be available to highly qualified candidates**". We'll keep that as prose. We also have metadata: Position Description/PD#: Safety & Occupational Health Manager/PD216130 Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: MAY be authorized for highly qualified applicants Permanent Change of Station (PCS): Authorized Financial Disclosure Report: Not required **Recruitment/Relocation & PCS Incentives MAY be available to highly qualified candidates**. We can combine into a short paragraph. Schedule: Monday - Friday - 7:30am - 4:00pm - PST Telework: Not available Virtual: This is not a virtual position. We should not include Benefits section because not definite. We should not include Pay, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills sections because no specific content. Thus output HTML with sections: About the role (

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      About the role

      Serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for the VA Portland Health Care System (HCS). The HCS is comprised of two large divisions with one Medical Center located in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. Responsible for all areas of the HCS involving a wide variety of high-risk operations, facilities, and environmental conditions. Recruitment/Relocation incentives may be available to highly qualified candidates.

      Position Description/PD#: Safety & Occupational Health Manager/PD216130. Relocation/Recruitment incentives may be authorized for highly qualified applicants. Permanent Change of Station (PCS) authorized. Financial Disclosure Report: Not required.

      Responsibilities

      • Serves as the Chief - Occupational Safety Service for VAPORHCS.
      • Responsible for directing, planning, developing and implementing comprehensive programs for Safety, Fire Protection, Green Environmental Management Systems (GEMS), Industrial Hygiene, Occupational Health, Laser Safety, and Radiation Safety Programs.
      • Oversees, monitors and evaluates occupational health and safety activities; administratively manages the overall facility Occupational Health Section clinical staff and safety programs to provide patients, visitors and staff with the highest attainable level of safety possible; identifies opportunities for improvement through ongoing problem identification, evaluation, resolution, monitoring and evaluation.
      • Responsible for supervision, planning, and direction of work operations; directs daily operational activities including direct supervision interventions; assures efficient and economical work operations; plans accomplishment of major and complex work operations on a long-range basis; participates in establishing long-range goals and facility planning.
      • In managing Safety personnel resources, must be creative, tactful, fair, and impartial.
      • Establish a constructive workplace environment that maximizes morale and efficiency.
      • Periodically hold staff meetings to solicit the flow of ideas and suggestions.

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