Health and Safety Specialist

Overview

We are looking for an experienced Health and Safety Specialist, based in Huntsville, AL, who is passionate about workplace safety and ensuring a secure environment for all. Join the DP World team today!

Responsibilities

• Identify, design and develop company health and safety management systems, training programs, and procedures, and enforce regulatory regulations and company policies.
• Monitor, revise, and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws or reporting requirements. Provide technical safety and health support and information to all employees to ensure employees are operating in a safe, orderly, and clean environment.
• Coordinate and administer safety training initiatives for the company to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, DOT (if applicable) and all other regulatory requirements. Understand DOT compliance and regulations (if applicable) as well as EPA and environmental regulations (if applicable).
• Coordinate risk assessment and accident investigation activities including record keeping. Analyze risk assessments, near miss, and accident data to present to the senior management team.
• Lead health and safety meetings, present data, record actions, and maintain progress on actions. Review injury / illness and non-injury incident investigation reports and follow up as necessary.
• Administer mandatory environmental, health and safety training and ensure all newly hired employees, agency employees, contractors, visitors and transferred employees receive proper training.
• Work with operational teams to improve the working environment, reducing the impacts to the employee from operational activities. Make recommendations on process and product safety features that will reduce employees' exposure to work hazards.
• Conduct internal audits, workplace inspections, and health & safety tours to the prescribed frequency ensuring compliance to audit standards. Work with auditors and vendors to address findings and complaints in a timely, efficient and professional manner.
• Inspect facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety and environmental regulation compliance. Review plans and specifications for development of new machinery, equipment or processes to determine whether all safety requirements have been met.
• Develop and maintain emergency preparations and responses. Serve as a member of the First Aid / CPR Responder / ERT teams.

Qualifications

Compensation

DP World offers exciting and challenging roles within a growing international organization. We strive to hire and develop the right people, locally and globally, stimulating personal growth and self-development within an informal atmosphere. We offer a market competitive compensation package.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world's trade flow better, changing what's possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. DP World has a diverse team of more than 111,000 employees from 159 nationalities, spanning 77 countries on six continents, and is shaping the future of trade through ports and terminals, marine services, logistics and technology.

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