Health and Safety Intern

Hayward Industries • North Kingstown, RI

24d • Onsite

About The Position

The Health & Safety Intern will partner with Hayward’s Site Safety Coordinator, engineering, department leads, site maintenance, and facilities in updating and communicating a more refined LOTO procedure and SOP. Incorporating industry best practices and established Hayward procedures.
Throughout this internship, the candidate will be immersed in a professional manufacturing organization, experiencing every phase of production, warehousing, product testing, safety, and engineering.

Requirements

• Junior or senior pursuing bachelor’s degree in industrial health & safety, industrial hygiene, environmental science, or related programs
• Working knowledge of MS Office programs
• Comfortable working in a manufacturing setting with all employee levels, from hourly production to management
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, written and verbally.
• You must have transportation to and from facility. This is a Monday – Friday on-site position.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee must regularly sit, talk, hear, stand, and walk. The employee will often have to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to fifty pounds using proper lifting techniques. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to assess current state of HRI LOTO program.
• Work with the Site Safety Coordinator in developing improved LOTO standard here at HRI, in a simple, visual format.
• Assist the Site Safety Coordinator in training affected employees on the new LOTO.
• Working with the Site Safety Coordinator and department leads in updating PPE Requirements associated with LOTO.
• Work with Manufacturing Engineering to incorporate PPE requirements and other safety cautions in LOTO instructions.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Intern