Lab Safety Specialist - Environmental Health & Safety

West Virginia University

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About The Position

The department of Environmental Health & Safety at West Virginia University is currently accepting applications for a EH&S Lab Safety Specialist.
About the Opportunity
Design, develop policies, implement, and manage programs related to laboratory safety management on the main campus in Morgantown, all regional campus locations, including our farms and any other areas being operated by the University.
We strongly believe in work-life balance and keeping time for things we love outside our work. WVU offers generous benefits, including:
37.5-hour work week
13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
24 annual leave (vacation) days per year or more based on years of service (employee leave)
18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
401(a) retirement savings with 6%25 employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
Wellness programs

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Safety Management, Environmental Health and Safety, Chemistry, Microbiology, or other laboratory science field or equivalent experience is required.
• A minimum of four (4) years of experience involving:
• Directly related professional experience in laboratory safety, chemical hygiene and/or training.
• Experience in a research or laboratory setting.
• Experience with developing and delivering training.
• Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience will be considered.
• All qualifications must be met by the time of employment.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in Safety Management, Environmental Health and Safety, or other laboratory science field preferred.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the administration of institutional policies with minimal supervision related to laboratory and chemical safety.
• Provide program services, leadership, and options for decision making to institutional groups required to comply with program policies.
• Clearly articulate the roles and responsibilities of all stakeholders. Work with faculty and staff to embed safety communication in laboratories, classes, departments and throughout the wider campus.
• Work to create a trusting and safe culture with faculty and staff. Encourage the development of a generative culture based on open dialogue, reporting, and learning from near misses, as described by the National Academy of Sciences.
• Oversee annual safety shower/eye wash and fume hood testing throughout the University.
• Regularly conducts assessments and benchmarking of activities and operations to minimize risk, identify deficiencies, and provide written corrective measures to ensure program efficiency, effectiveness and a safer culture.
• Implements a process to report incidents and near misses so that the campus community can learn from these incidents.
• Set goals to reduce incidents and abate hazards in collaboration with administrators, managers, chemical hygiene officers, faculty, PI’s, etc.
• Develops a continuous improvement system that provides feedback, reassessment, and on-going training and learning opportunities.
• Network with other professionals in local, state, federal, industrial, and academic institutions to benchmark programs to evaluate best practices.
• Correspond with regulatory agencies pertaining to laboratory safety and chemical hygiene activities.
• Respond to institutional emergencies.
• Provide laboratory safety education and training to WVU faculty, staff, students, and visitors.
• Remain current with laboratory safety issues to assure WVU maintains awareness of emerging regulatory issues.
• Set goals and provide supervision to Graduate Student employees.
• Responsible for other duties as requested and or assigned.
• Assist in the operation of all other Environmental Health and Safety programs as assigned.

Benefits

• 37.5-hour work week
• 13 paid holidays (staff holiday calendar)
• 24 annual leave (vacation) days per year or more based on years of service (employee leave)
• 18 sick days per year (for when you’re ill, for when you need time to care for sick family, for your own, or your family’s, regularly scheduled medical appointments. Who is family for the purpose of this leave? A lot of people in your life including immediate relatives and in-laws as well as others considered to be members of your household living under the same roof)
• WVU offers a range of health insurance and other benefits
• 401(a) retirement savings with 6%25 employee contribution match, eligibility to continue health insurance, and other retiree perks. Looking for more retirement benefits information? Check out retirement health insurance benefits, retirement income, and FAQ’s.
• Wellness programs

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level