Position Description
The Safety Coordinator will contribute to project success by serving as the safety coordinator for the workers and Project Manager, to ensure the protection of people, property, and the environment. This role requires continuous engagement with the workforce throughout the day, and ready availability to meet urgent support needs for incident response, ad hoc support requests, etc.
The client worksite is a multiemployer workplace with numerous companies providing a wide variety of services that involve hazardous activities controlled by either the site owner or General Contractor. The MSR-FSR Safety Coordinator is responsible for understanding the nature of site activity hazards and fostering cooperative relationships with other site safety personnel, to ensure the highest degree of hazard communication and situational awareness and protection is maintained by and for our workforce, where potentially exposed to such hazards.
Responsibilities:
HAZARD IDENTIFICATION & ASSESSMENT
- Ensure familiarity with relative federal and regional safety laws, as well as client site and prime contractor requirements, as applicable.
- Review the contract Scope of Work and compare with the Initial Hazard Assessment to determine if all known or reasonably anticipated hazards have been adequately addressed.
- Conduct daily evaluations of the workplace, equipment, activities, and document both conforming and nonconforming conditions.
- Investigate causal factors of incidents, and unsafe conditions or activities. Report findings and recommendations to Project Manager with focus on recurrence prevention, including any improvement opportunity or best practices observations.
HAZARD PREVENTION & CONTROL
- Continuously monitor the jobsite to ensure that adequate controls remain in place for hazards previously identified.
- Identify and document newly emerging hazards and appropriate controls as the project matures and activities change, recommending most effective and efficient ways to mitigate risk, based upon the hierarchy of controls.
- Identify and elevate any barriers workers have to completing their tasks according to required safe work practices.
SAFETY TRAINING / COACHING
- Identify all client site and general contractor training requirements applicable to MSR-FSR workers based upon the hazard assessment.
- Maintain awareness of the training status of MSR-FSR workers and provide safety briefings, Tool-Box Talks, and any follow-up training required based upon situational needs, either in an individual or group setting.
- Provide safety coaching and communicate safe work requirements to the workforce and Program Manager to ensure that all workers understand the nature of the job hazards, how to identify increased risk, and what their rights and responsibilities are under the Safety Program.
- Ensure that all workers understand and are capable of following emergency/incident response, reporting, and follow-up care procedures.
- he Safety Coordinator should possess a mix of formal safety education, relevant experience, and certifications, where strength in one area may substitute for others, based upon project needs and candidate attributes.
- Must have a minimum of an OSHA 30
- Associates degree /Technical Training in Safety or related field with focus on Loss Control, Risk Management, Construction Management, Industrial Hygiene, Safety Supervision is preferred
- Minimum 3 years of safety leadership experience in construction related industry
- Sound knowledge of applicable Federal & Regional Safety laws, (i.e., OSHA/HSA/ILO)
- Ability to communicate clearly in English both verbally and in writing.
- Computer literate: Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint, Etc.
