SUMMARY:
As an Environmental Health and Safety Manager, your contribution will be instrumental in the success of the Amarillo Facility, ensuring adherence to regulatory standards, proactively preventing accidents, and overseeing post-injury management. You will be tasked with developing and implementing tailored Environmental Health and Safety plans that align with the overarching Environmental Health and Safetyobjectives. As a seasoned Environmental Health and Safety Manager, your expertise will be pivotal in fostering a collaborative, proactive, and inventive approach to problem-solving, leading to the enhancement of our overall strategy and Environmental Health and Safety management system.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Promote a culture of continuous improvement that exceeds division expectations.
- Evaluate business unit capabilities, skills, and resource alignment to ensure performance against objectives, leading realignment efforts as needed for execution excellence
- Develops, implements, and monitors safety programs to reduce frequency of accidents and injuries; assists in minimizing overall workers’ compensation costs.
- Plans, implements, communicates, and monitors safety policies and procedures in compliance with local, state, and federal OSHA rules and regulations.
- Audits various safety program elements of effectiveness; schedules and performs safety inspections; identifies issues and develops corrective action plans.
- Supervises, controls, and monitors fire prevention and firefighting activities.
- Investigates all accidents and injuries; recommends and/or coordinates corrective actions.
- Develops and implements safety training programs designed to instruct employees in general safe work practices plus specific instruction with regard to hazards unique to any job assignment; provides training for new employees.
- Maintains thorough knowledge of federal and state OSHA regulations and web sites; maintains up-to-date knowledge of safety codes and regulations; distributes and/or posts new or revised safety standards that affect the company.
- Reviews and responds to OSHA inquiries.
- Identifies potential safety hazards at all facilities; reports hazards and recommendations for eliminating/reducing to management.
- Coordinates with other departments on design and construction of new equipment, facilities, and work methods to ensure compliance with safety policies and regulations.
- Encourages employees and supervisors to report all unsafe conditions immediately and schedules or coordinates repairs as soon as possible.
- Encourages employees and supervisors to report any injury that occurs on the job, even a slight cut or strain, immediately.
- Maintains records for statistical measurement and conformance to standard practices of the safety industry.
- Prepares and maintains required safety reports.
- Performs other related duties as assigned by management.
