Senior Safety Officer

Ascension•Wichita, KS

9d•Onsite

About The Position

Exercise an advanced level of responsibility and accountability for coordinating, collecting, disseminating, and intervening in a manner that anticipates, prevents, and identifies, evaluates, and controls hazards. Maintain continuous survey readiness through compliance with regulations from various regulatory agencies. Responsible for implementing and maintaining the Environment of Care Program, including safety and security management, fire safety, hazardous materials and waste management, medical equipment, and utilities management and Emergency Management. Oversight of Environment of Care in efforts to maintain high standards of safety, regulatory compliance, maintaining documentation of findings and improvements. Identify risks based on regulatory interpretation and other methods, and apply to policy creation. Develop and implement education programs and materials to train staff to detect, mitigate, and avoid workplace hazards. Provide policy and procedure interpretation and education as it applies to the EC and Emergency Management Plans.

Requirements

Drivers License preferred.
High School diploma equivalency with 2 years of cumulative experience OR Associate's degree/Bachelor's degree OR 4 years of applicable cumulative job specific experience required.

Responsibilities

Coordinating, collecting, disseminating, and intervening in a manner that anticipates, prevents, and identifies, evaluates, and controls hazards.
Maintaining continuous survey readiness through compliance with regulations from various regulatory agencies.
Implementing and maintaining the Environment of Care Program, including safety and security management, fire safety, hazardous materials and waste management, medical equipment, and utilities management and Emergency Management.
Maintaining high standards of safety, regulatory compliance, maintaining documentation of findings and improvements.
Identifying risks based on regulatory interpretation and other methods, and apply to policy creation.
Developing and implementing education programs and materials to train staff to detect, mitigate, and avoid workplace hazards.
Providing policy and procedure interpretation and education as it applies to the EC and Emergency Management Plans.