Senior Safety Specialist, Consultation

State of Nevada • Carson City, NV

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Department of Administration’s Risk Management Division is seeking a Safety Specialist in the Carson City area. This position promotes recognized safety practices among businesses and state agencies covered by state and federal health and safety laws and regulations. The incumbent is expected to work independently with minimal training and will manage safety reviews for all state buildings, monitor outside vendors providing loss prevention, loss control, and ergonomic evaluation services, and conduct and review accident investigations related to workers’ compensation injuries. Additional responsibilities include developing the annual safety report, coordinating quarterly safety meetings with agency safety coordinators, planning and coordinating the annual safety conference, creating training modules, and compiling statistical data on accident causation. Safety Specialists, Consultation promote and consult on recognized safety practices for a single State agency, a regulatory program directed toward external entities, or in the State’s Risk Management Division.

Requirements

• Three or more years of applicable experience as described in the job duties
• Graduation from high school or equivalent education

Nice To Haves

• Ability to perform comprehensive surveys or compliance inspections in all industry classifications
• Ability to originate feasible means of abatement in unique situations
• Ability to motivate employers to take proactive steps to achieve workplace safety
• Ability to deliver presentations to defend findings and recommendations
• Ability to understand and communicate the rationale behind a wide variety of safety and health standards
• Ability to analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur
• Ability to review work products for quality, quantity, and timeliness
• Ability to analyze information, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to define objectives, identify relevant concerns, formulate logical conclusions, and recognize alternatives and their implications

Responsibilities

• Conduct surveys of employer sites at the employer’s request and conduct pre-inspection reviews.
• Identify potential hazards and recognized control and abatement procedures.
• Meet with employes to discuss visit’s purpose, rights and responsibilities, and other pertinent information.
• Review and evaluate written workplace safety programs for compliance, specificity, comprehensiveness, and implementation effectiveness.
• Evaluate and analyze overall working and environmental conditions and work processes for compliance.
• Sample common health hazards when identified hazards are imminently dangerous and take necessary steps to ensure employees are removed from danger.
• Discuss the adequacy of workplace safety programs, identified hazards, standards not met, the feasibility of engineering controls and abatement alternatives, and issue non-penalty citations as appropriate.
• Influence employers to take preventive or corrective actions and assign abatement periods in which serious regulatory violations must be corrected.
• Make recommendations to enhance safety management systems.
• Communicate with employers to promote change in management philosophy, organizational culture, work processes, and other areas.
• Document findings and recommendations in comprehensive reports.
• Provide informal on-site instruction on a variety of topics.
• Conduct activities for a regulatory program directed toward external entities.
• Analyze management and workplace safety systems to identify the system breakdown which allowed a hazard to occur.
• Conduct surveys or compliance inspections involving multiple disciplines and state-of-the-art processes.
• Act as a team leader by assigning and reviewing work, training, and providing input to performance evaluations and discipline.
• Perform related duties as assigned.
• Develop the annual safety report.
• Coordinate quarterly safety meetings with agency safety coordinators.
• Plan and coordinate the annual safety conference.
• Create training modules.
• Compile statistical data on accident causation.
• Manage safety reviews for all state buildings.
• Monitor outside vendors providing loss prevention, loss control, and ergonomic evaluation services.
• Conduct and review accident investigations related to workers’ compensation injuries.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: High school or GED