About This Role
This Safety Director role provides technical safety and health support to production and corporate personnel, developing and coordinating safety training programs. The director monitors safety and health regulations and provides technical support to ensure compliance with federal and state safety and health regulations.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with staff in engineering, human resources, legal, operations, and research and development
- Provide technical safety and health support and information to production and corporate personnel
- Prepare written safety and health programs and policies
- Comply and update safety databases, including ISN and Avetta, and all intracompany databases
- Identify company safety training needs and develop and coordinate safety training programs
- Organize, develop, and create agenda for companywide annual training day
- Develop annual company safety and health goals
- Participate in new product/process reviews, including process hazard analyses, operator training, etc.
- Support corporate/plant engineering to implement engineering controls to minimize safety and occupational health hazards
- Support plant personnel in selection of appropriate personal protective equipment
- Maintain corporate safety library (e.g., videos, regulations, reference manuals)
- Promote safety and health awareness through internal company memoranda, newsletters and specific training programs
- Assist as necessary in implementation of a hazard communication program and preparation of reports
- Review process-operating procedures/records and provide input for safety and health considerations
- Understand federal and state occupational safety and health regulations and monitor regulatory changes as they occur
- Provide technical support to corporate and plant personnel to ensure compliance with applicable occupational safety and health regulations
- Advise manufacturing plants and corporate staff of regulatory changes with which the plants must comply, providing sufficient advance notice so that compliance on the effective date of new regulations is ensured
- Audit practices and records of manufacturing plants to ensure compliance with company programs and federal/state occupational safety and health regulations
- Monitor lost-time injuries/illnesses and worker’s compensation claims
- Review safety inspection reports and follow up as necessary
- Review injury/illness and noninjury incident investigation reports and follow up as necessary
- Direct supervisory responsibilities and management of the safety program, including directing safety related activities
- Serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department
