OSHA Health Compliance Officer I

State of North Carolina

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About The Position

The North Carolina Department of Labor is charged by statute with promoting the health, safety and general well-being of the workers in the state. The laws and programs the Department administers affect every worker in the state. The Department is organized into three primary divisions which carry out the Department's principle regulatory, enforcement and promotional programs, and the administrative operations. The three primary divisions have divisions, bureaus and offices under each, which carry out the specific and specialized portions of the NCDOL mission. To learn more about the NC Department of Labor, please visit our website at https://www.labor.nc.gov/. The Occupational Safety and Health Division (OSH Division or OSHNC) of the Department of Labor, under the direction of the North Carolina Deputy Commissioner of Labor, is the lead state agency with the responsibility of fostering safe and healthy workplaces for more than four million employees and migrant workers in more than two hundred seventy-five thousand workplaces in North Carolina by educating, developing, and enforcing compliance to safety, health, and agriculture laws, rules, regulations, and standards. OSH Compliance, comprised of the East and West Bureaus, conducts inspections to identify safety and health hazards that are in violation of OSHA standards, documents those violations, and then issues the appropriate citations and penalties per established procedures. The Compliance inspectors identify corrective measures for each hazard and work closely with the employer to ensure implementation of those measures. They investigate safety & health complaints filed by employees as well as accidents, fatalities, and catastrophic events in the workplace, and assist with training &outreach activities statewide. The Health Compliance Officer (HCO) conducts inspections of industrial workplaces to detect occupational health hazards which are in violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act. The HCO inspects and makes written reports of employee exposures to potentially toxic substances and hazardous working conditions throughout the state. Position recommends issuance of citations when justified by the occupational safety and health laws of the state of North Carolina. The HCO plans the inspection schedules and performs them independently, seeking advice from supervisor when working with unusual hazards. Types of inspections conducted are complaints, referrals, follow-ups, accidents, fatalities, and general schedule assignments. The acceptable (and fully qualified) candidate must be able to operate and calibrate sound level meters, audio dosimeters, air sampling pumps, combustible gas indicators, and other testing and sampling equipment to measure potential health hazards of specific substances or in specific industries or processes related to occupational health hazards.

Requirements

• Must have a valid driver's license
• Live within 50-miles of Raleigh Field office.
• The HCO must have the ability to apply inspection and compliance procedures with consistency and to write detailed reports to document inspection results and apply principles associated with public health and safety incorporated in the federal and state occupation safety and health standards.
• Contacts and interviews employees and places personal monitoring equipment on such; observes employee work practices and ensures proper operation of monitoring equipment.
• The HCO must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and have the ability to work with individuals at all levels of any organization and must be proficient in keyboarding using word processing programs, i.e. Microsoft Word and Excel.
• The HCO will be required to evaluate and make recommendations on unusual problems.
• Valid Driver's License is required.
• Master's degree in industrial hygiene with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, physics, mechanical engineering, or a closely related curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution; or Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, physics, industrial hygiene, mechanical engineering, or a closely related curriculum from an appropriately accredited institution and one year of experience in industrial hygiene inspections; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Nice To Haves

• The ability to speak and understand Spanish is an asset but not required for the position.

Responsibilities

• Conducts inspections of industrial workplaces to detect occupational health hazards which are in violation of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.
• Inspects and makes written reports of employee exposures to potentially toxic substances and hazardous working conditions throughout the state.
• Recommends issuance of citations when justified by the occupational safety and health laws of the state of North Carolina.
• Plans the inspection schedules and performs them independently, seeking advice from supervisor when working with unusual hazards.
• Operate and calibrate sound level meters, audio dosimeters, air sampling pumps, combustible gas indicators, and other testing and sampling equipment to measure potential health hazards of specific substances or in specific industries or processes related to occupational health hazards.

What This Job Offers

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