SAFETY MANAGER

Compass Group

8d•$80,000 - $90,000

About The Position

The Safety Manager will be responsible for promoting a safety-conscious culture by mitigating health and safety risk to employees. This position shall reduce claims and lost time injuries by providing safety and workers' compensation support to the facility. The support provided will include: training; site visits/ inspections; job safety analysis review, implementation of policies and procedures; safety performance measurement; communication. This will be accomplished through daily engagement with staff, risk mitigation, training, meetings, and audits. The HSE Manager will have no director reports and will report directly to the Director of Safety and Health and Regional Manager.

Responsibilities

Analyze status reports to determine trends and develop action plan to reduce financial impact.
Focus on units experiencing increased injury trend and provide solutions for improvement.
Utilize financial and worker injury report to determine where focus should be emphasized.
Respond to Customer concerns regarding health and safety.
Facilitate Contractor Orientation Class
Inspections– Ensure that Compass/Eurest facilities comply with OSHA and other state and federal standards through facility inspection. In addition, ensure that the unit is in compliance with safety and workers compensation procedures. Provide management with results/recommendations following inspection. Follow-up on progress.
Awareness / Incentives – Ensure that units have effective “on-going” safety awareness programs to promote a safe work environment. Support incentive programs to increase awareness for management and employees.
Compass Support – Assist the Compass Risk Management Department in the development and administration of effective and efficient loss prevention and control programs.
Management Training – Provide bi-lingual training to follow safe work practices and maintain a safe working environment through training, presentations, conference calls, and the distribution of safety materials.
Communication – Ensure that the unit, TPA and clinic communicate regularly on open claims. This may include attending meetings and conference calls. On going communication will assist in reducing accidents, late claims, and out of work days.
Measurement – Ensure that all proposed annual goals and KPI’s are met.
Follow OSHA, DOT and EPA regulations as defined by federal, state, local laws and Compass/ Eurest policies/procedures.
Actively monitor/inspect the workplace to determine the presence of hazards and take appropriate action to rectify any hazards found.
Participate where required in the resolution of safety issues.
Preview the component injury data and ascertain location of injuries and provide recommendation to eliminate hazards.
Train local management in proper methods of investigation and inspection format; compliance with safety laws and regulations; fire evacuation; CPR and self-inspections.
Conduct “Safety” inspections of Compass facilities for hazards as well as walk-through visits.
Maintains OSHA recordkeeping. With assistance from corporate Risk Management, the position will determine reportable illnesses and injuries. Position will prepare reports for all campus sites on a regular basis and will prepare annual reports.