DEPARTMENT: RISK AVOIDANCE
REPORTS TO: CHIEF SAFETY OFFICER / PRESIDENT OF CSI
DIRECT REPORTS: ON SITE SAFETY MANAGERS/ENGINEERS
FLSA STATUS: EXEMPT
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY:
Manage and develop Safety and Concrete Strategies Inc. training programs at a corporate level and coordinate process with various customers. Conduct on-site safety assessments of crews and monitor corrective actions taken. Maintain safety files and records; prepare reports for management as needed Investigate all accidents resulting in lost time injuries or major property, liability or equipment damage; produce reports Implement/enforce CSI Safety and Quality procedures. The Safety Director will provide support to the Project Staff in an effort to enforce corporate safety and health policies and procedures.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Implementation and development of the corporate safety program.
- Administer training that improves performance and ensure compliance.
- Create a safety culture that reduces risk through pre-planning, inspections and oversight.
- Ensure and oversee jobsite orientation for all new employees. Identify, administer, and record participation in orientation programs.
- Attend all initial meetings with the project staff and subcontractor representatives to clearly define their role within the confines of the project safety program.
- Conduct and document pre-planning safety meetings with each subcontractor representatives to establish safety procedures prior to subcontractor’s activity on site.
- Establish and conduct regular safety meetings with subcontractor representatives and with project staff to ensure proper compliance.
- Facilitate training for site personnel and ensure that standards are per the OSHA\CSI and in compliance with Federal and State standards.
- Ensure subcontractor toolbox safety meeting are taking place, logged, and reviewed.
- Review each subcontractor’s safety program and ensure that it meets or exceeds the project safety program requirements.
- Ensure that each subcontractor designates a safety representative that is properly trained in subcontractor’s scope of work and has the proper authority to correct safety issues.
- Conduct regular daily and weekly jobsite inspections and complete the safety checklist noting safety violations and corrective actions.
- Record, notify and prepare written report of any violations or unsafe practices for immediate correction actions.
- Stop at once any violation or unsafe acts or practices.
- Assist the Project Staff in establishing and implementing proper fire prevention, evacuation and fire control procedures.
- Investigate all incidents and generate proper reports.
- Establish and maintain all required safety records.
- Attend or conduct monthly overview safety meeting and attend project staff meetings to brief on safety issues.
- Perform other duties as necessary.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities
- Strong management, leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate well both verbally and in writing.
- Successful candidate must be disciplined and well-organized with a strong bias towards timely, detailed performance against aggressive deadlines
- Ideal candidate must be a self-starting multi-tasker who can accomplish all assignments without need of close supervision
Education/Experience
- B.S. in Safety and Health or equivalent
- At least five (5) years of safety experience or combination of education/multiple years experience in self perform building construction, with a superior knowledge of safety/environment principles and techniques.
- Candidate with OSHA 510 and 500 certifications preferred
- Computer skills with familiarity with Microsoft Office.
- Must be willing to travel up fifty (50) percent.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
- Performance of the required duties will require physical ability to climb permanent and temporary stairs, passenger use of construction personnel hoists, ability to climb ladders and negotiate work areas under construction.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls, sit, talk and hear, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.
- Regularly works on-site at the construction work site where the employee is exposed to moving mechanical parts; high precarious places, fumes or airborne particles, outside weather conditions and risk to electrical shock.
- Noise level is usually moderate to very loud.