EH&S Specialist I - Occupational Safety & Environment of Care (OSEC)
About The Position
The EH&S Specialist I’s primary assignment is with the EH&S Occupational Safety & Environment of Care Team, which is responsible for compliance with occupational safety regulations such as OSHA and hospital standards such as those of the Joint Commission. The role requires basic knowledge or experience with occupational safety and OSHA standards. Programs include indoor air quality investigations; industrial hygiene exposure monitoring; respiratory fit testing; accident, incident, and occurrence investigations; ergonomic seated workstation evaluations; risk assessments; hazard surveillance inspections and surveys; and participation in hazard communication and hazardous materials and waste management. Waste-related work includes handling, storing, and disposing of hazardous materials and waste, conducting chemical waste pickups, advising hospital staff on disposal procedures, inspecting Satellite Accumulation Areas, ensuring containers are properly labeled, marked, handled, and shipped, and overseeing lab packing and removal operations. The specialist works independently and as part of a team to prioritize multiple projects. Work may take place at multiple locations served by the UMass Chan Medical School EH&S Department, including UMass Chan and UMass Memorial Medical Center.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, fire safety, environmental health and safety, or a related field.
- Zero to two years of work experience in safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, fire safety, environmental health and safety, or a related field.
- Ability to become certified as an OSHA 40-hour Hazwoper Emergency Responder and wear a full-face respirator.
- Ability to become certified by DOT for manifest signing.
- Valid driver’s license and a vehicle, or the ability to travel to off-site locations and respond to urgent matters.
Nice To Haves
- Internship in safety, environmental science, industrial hygiene, fire safety, environmental health and safety, or a related field.
Responsibilities
- Assist with inspections, evaluations, surveillance surveys, and audits of laboratories, patient care areas, and construction areas.
- Assist with risk assessments and incident and injury investigations.
- Collect airborne, surface, and personal exposure samples using monitoring equipment or badges.
- Assist with accident, incident, and injury investigations.
- May assist with industrial hygiene exposure monitoring.
- May help maintain chemical inventories and safety data sheets as part of the medical center’s hazard communication program.
- May collect and handle hazardous and non-hazardous chemical and pharmaceutical wastes from designated collection areas; assist with segregation and labeling; transport hazardous waste to main storage rooms; and help prepare hazardous waste for disposal.
- Assist with conducting drills and exercises.
- Support the creation and preparation of checklists for compliance inspections.
- Conduct inventories of safety supplies and par levels.
- Assist with responses to urgent or emergent calls, questions, or requests involving lower-acuity incidents.
- Assist with triaging issues and concerns, reporting to the supervisor, suggesting responses or follow-up, and applying appropriate follow-up.
- Assist with data collection, research, and investigation of regulatory concerns.
- File and maintain records and documentation, including training records, waste manifests, safety data sheets, safety and equipment records, certifications, and inspection reports.
- Enter data or information into EH&S software applications, databases, or filings.
- Conduct respiratory fit testing.
- Assist with conducting EH&S training.
- Assist with drafting or revising programmatic standard operating procedures.
- May participate on the EH&S Emergency Response Team, which requires wearing a full-face respirator.
- Participate in the EH&S nights, weekends, holiday, and off-hours on-call program.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
