The essential duties and responsibilities of the Regional Safety Engineer consist of, but are not limited to, the following. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
1. Safety:
- Perform project site safety audits and inspections to assess safety and health risks associated with equipment, materials, processes, facilities, etc. within assigned region, as required.
- Document Management: Obtaining, tracking, recording, and reviewing safety documents and submittals.
- Identify conditions or actions that may cause injury, illness or property damage. Work with project sites to assure compliance and corrective actions have been implemented.
- Distribute reports, coach onsite personnel to improve conditions and performance. Bring serious situations to the immediate attention of Area Operations Manager, General Superintendent, and the Manager, Safety & Risk Control.
- Interface with the General Contractor and others to increase trust, confidence and support for the safety program.
- Confirm that all required compliance posters are available and visible onsite.
- Assist project sites with the development, implementation, communication and execution of site specific safety program.
- Assist project sites with new hire safety orientation, job specific safety training, safety meetings, and the administration of our Corporate Safety Program.
- Review, prepare and conduct an analysis of leading and lagging indicators to drive safety improvement.
- Confirm that all sites are in compliance with the General Contractor’s, OSHA’s, KHS&S’ and all other governing bodies requirements. Discrepancies shall be reported to the Director, Safety & Risk Control immediately, along with solutions to correct potential problems.
- Implement safety incentive program.
- Deal with OSHA inspection/citation issues when they arise in the field.
- Manage scaffold usage in the field and report to administrative clerk.
- Conduct accident investigations as they arise in the field. Determine facts related to an accident or incident based on witness interviews, site inspections, and collection of other evidence.
- Perform daily inspections on jobsites. Depending on distance of jobsite it may be one per day. If you are placed on a project that requires a full time safety coordinator, a daily inspections report must be completed and turned in to the Manager, Risk and Safety Control.
2. Training:
- Prepare and distribute training materials.
- Conduct and/or schedule resources to conduct specific classes in Safety training (i.e., scissor lift, scaffold use, fall protection, etc.) to provide employees with the knowledge and skills necessary to recognize hazards to perform their job safely and effectively.
3. Other Duties:
- Coordinate, communicate, and assess vendors/new vendors for corporate use.
- Promote support safety objectives and integrate safety into the culture of our organization.
- Monitor safety committee meetings progress at the jobsite.
- Attend seminars/educational training programs as required.
- Perform any other related or unrelated, unassigned, unspecified duty that may be needed from time to time.