Training and Safety Manager

The Safety Advisor will provide Leadership and Guidance to the team, while working alongside them, to create and maintain a culture reflective of a commitment to an illness and injury-free workplace for Vendors, Clients, and Employees.

Purpose : Proactively promote the health and safety of Vendors, Clients, and Employees.

Summary of Position : The Safety Advisor will report directly to the HR Manager of the organization and is based out of Wasco, CA.

Summary of Responsibilities : The Training and Safety Manager is responsible for the operations of all safety-related processes, by developing employees that will ensure and improve the performance, productivity, and efficiency through the understanding of effective methods and strategies.

Essential Job Functions :

• Formulate and recommend work safety standards, policies, procedures, and advise management on problem correction to reduce safety risks and occupational health issues.
• Monitor, revise, and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws, or reporting requirements.
• Provide EHS training to new hires and review training with employees from resulting incidents.
• Intervene at-risk activities.
• Perform pre-hire orientations to promote our safety culture and provide safety awareness.
• Perform drug screening for all new hires and current employees.
• Retain and manage all documentation related to new employee safety training.
• Perform routine employee safety meetings promoting a safety culture.
• Perform site-specific training for employees at the job site location.
• Provide internal training for new or current staff and safety team members.
• Review and implement Cal / OSHA regulatory requirements for compliance with confined space, machine guarding, hazard recognition, hazard communication, equipment commissioning, lock-out tag-out, respiratory protection, blood-borne pathogens, and personal protective equipment.
• Identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices in the workplace, conduct and coordinate on-site inspections, to audit physical conditions and safe work practices.
• Develop and implement Haz-mat procedures and policies.
• Help develop controls for identified hazards, coordinate the implementation of controls, from the result of Job Hazard Analysis (JHA).
• Regularly perform Job site Safety Analysis (JSA) throughout all the departments that employees are assigned.
• Prevention and take precautions against exposure to hazardous substances, and danger from flammable, explosive, electrical, noise, radiation, and manual handling risks.
• Immediately assess and address situations where an employee's safety has been compromised, such as an accident, injury, illness, or near miss.
• Immediately respond, analyze and investigate all incidents to determine the true cause and implement corrective actions.
• Initiate, retain, and manage all Incident / Accident Reporting files.
• Communicate with Medical Facilities to manage incidents.
• Communicate daily with the Management team and HR Manager regarding any safety-related issues.
• Develop and maintain professional relationships with all department leadership, Vendors, and employees.
• Manage Cal / OSHA recordkeeping, reporting, and employee training requirements.
• Responsible for compliance and timely filing of required reports and / or company data to external agencies including but not limited to : OSHA 300A logs, Cal OSHA, BLS Injury and Illness Annual Report.
• Review, provide feedback, and approve incident reports.
• Monitor JSA and Incident tracking database.
• Ensure the Safety department is meeting all necessary metrics to achieve the organization's Risk Management expectation.
• Management of Worker's Comp, which will include working with service providers.
• Develop, coach, and mentor a professional, experienced, and knowledgeable department leadership team that represents and meets the Safety goals of the organization.
• Perform quarterly audits on the overall quality of safety report writing / documentation of the department.
• Provide guidance and feedback to department leadership and employees on concerns or matters relating to safety.
• Facilitate monthly safety committee meetings with each department and designated representatives.
• Provide documentation on all performance-related discussions and interactions with staff employees.
• Retain and manage all documentation related to executed Job duties.
• Evaluate and recommend PPE as necessary based on Job Hazard Analysis (JHA).
• Review and perform cost analysis on purchases ranging from PPE, vehicle repairs, and immediate safety-related items.
• Provide overall operational support to all members of the organization.
• Actively reviewing internal safety practices and policies to ensure effectiveness for the Safety department and other departments.
• Assist with evaluations, guidance, enforcement, and / or corrective actions related to safety standards, policies, procedures of each department.
• All other duties as assigned.

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