SAFETY OFFICER

arrow_back Return to Employment Opportunities

SAFETY OFFICER

Apply

Safety Officer

General Statement of Job

The Safety Officer cultivates a safety-oriented work environment, ensuring compliance with safety regulations, minimizing workplace incidents, and enhancing overall safety performance. The Safety Officer develops and implements safety policies, procedures, and training programs to mitigate risks and promote a safe and secure workplace through continuous improvement and proactive strategies. The role will engage with employees at all levels to foster a culture of safety and operational excellence.

Essential Functions :

• Lead and model excellence through the development and execution of safety programs and initiatives.
• Conduct safety audits and risk assessments to document both safe and unsafe conditions or behaviors to help reinforce adherence to regulations and industry standards.
• Investigate incidents, injuries, and near misses.
• Compile, analyze, and interpret statistics relating to personnel injuries, frequency, and severity factors to expose root causes to recommend and implement training, job modification, initiatives, mitigation investments, and other cost-effective solutions.
• Contribute to and lead safety committees, evaluating incidents, recommending corrective actions, and collaborating to update safety standards and policies.
• Ensure effective communication and integration of safety protocols into daily operations.
• Perform continuous assessment and enhancements of training programs, practices, and equipment to maintain the highest levels of safety awareness and incident prevention.
• Stay updated on advancements in new technologies and practices, advocate for their incorporation, and consistently improve organizational safety standards.

Minimum Qualifications

Physical Requirements

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk to a significant degree; use hands to operate tools or feel and talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to pull, push, kneel, bend, squat, crawl, and twist. The employee must frequently lift and / or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and / or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Environmental factors include outdoor conditions; rugged terrain, slippery surfaces, varying weather, including, heat, cold, dry, wet weather. In addition, noise, darkness, brightness, vibrations, traffic, biological agents, chemicals, gas / fumes, magnetic fields, or congested area. Environmental factors include indoor, flat surface, noise, sitting, walking and standing.

Other

It is understood that every incidental duty connected with operations enumerated in the job description is not always specifically described, and employees, at the discretion of the City, may be required to perform duties not within their job descriptions.

Type : INTERNAL & EXTERNAL

Posting Start : 10 / 10 / 2025

Posting End : 12 / 31 / 9999

HOURLY RATE RANGE : $30.42-$48.67

link Copy Job Detail Link

link Copy Direct To Application Link

'); return false;" id="Target" style=" mdc-ripple-fg-size : 28px; mdc-ripple-fg-scale : 1.7142857142857142; mdc-ripple-left : 10px; mdc-ripple-top : 10px;">

share