Job Description
The Occupational Health and Safety Specialist will provide support for the Occupational Health and Safety function for the UC Health system by coordinating and conducting activities to maintain a safe and healthful environment.
The responsibility will be to recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials.
Responsibilities
Program Support :
- Performs routine safety inspections and audits within UC Health facilities.
- Promotes a Culture of Safety (Employee Safety) at UC Health facilities.
- Identify and address potential safety issues, risks and hazards and provide corrective action plans.
- Assist with any OSHA complaints and / or inspections.
- Monitor safety practices and regulations to ensure compliance with all applicable laws. Verify that staff are compliant with these practices and regulations, as supported by Accreditation - Joint Commission, ODH, OSHA and other regulatory bodies.
- Assists with investigating employee incidents to determine root cause and contributing factors.
- Maintain OSHA logs.
- Supports Manager in ensuring effective execution and administration of employee safety program at designated site / within Clinical Domain and other groups to facilitates efforts to achieve overall quality in safety,
- Escalate safety concerns to director, manager, operational leaders, and site senior leaders, as appropriate in a timely manner (as soon as possible, expected to be within same business day - even when full details are not known).
Data and Analytics :
- Conduct hazard assessments and job safety analyses.
- Prepare monthly reports, including Environment of Care and employee injury reports.
- Performs data analysis and trends of employee safety program data.
- Collaborates with team members on safety initiatives to perform thorough trending and analysis of events, errors, and near misses.
Training and Education :
- Determine and assist with development of safety related training.
- Provides safety training and education to staff on safety topics.
Other Duties as Assigned :
Perform all other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Required : Bachelor's Degree - Occupational Health and Safety, or safety related field.
Minimum Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Graduate Safety Professional preferred.
Candidate must be willing to complete certification within 6 months of hire.
Minimum Required : 1 - 2 Years equivalent experience.
Preferred : 3 - 5 Years equivalent experience.