Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, Employee Safety, Fulltime, First Shift

The Occupational Health and Safety Specialist will provide support for the Employee Safety / Occupational Health and Safety function for the UC Health system by coordinating and conducting activities to maintain a safe and healthful environment. The responsibility will be to recommend measures to help protect workers from potentially hazardous work methods, processes, or materials. 

Program Support:

●   Performs routine safety inspections and audits within UC Health facilities.
●   Promotes a Culture of Safety (Employee Safety) at UC Health facilities.
●   Identify and address potential safety issues, risks and hazards and provide corrective action plans.
●   Assist with any OSHA complaints and/or inspections.
●   Monitor safety practices and regulations to ensure compliance with all applicable laws. Verify that staff are compliant with these practices and regulations, as supported by Accreditation - Joint Commission, ODH, OSHA and other regulatory bodies.
●   Assists with investigating employee incidents to determine root cause and contributing factors. 
●   Maintain OSHA logs.
●   Supports Manager in ensuring effective execution and administration of employee safety program at designated site / within Clinical Domain and other groups to facilitates efforts to achieve overall quality in safety,
●   Escalate safety concerns to director, manager, operational leaders, and site senior leaders, as appropriate in a timely manner (as soon as possible, expected to be within same business day - even when full details are not known). 

Data and Analytics:

●   Conduct hazard assessments and job safety analyses.
●   Prepare monthly reports, including Environment of Care and employee injury reports.
●   Performs data analysis and trends of employee safety program data.
●   Collaborates with team members on safety initiatives to perform thorough trending and analysis of events, errors, and near misses. 

Training and Education:

●   Determine and assist with development of safety related training,
●   Provides safety training and education to staff on safety topics.

Other Duties as Assigned:

●   Perform all other duties as assigned.

Minimum Required: Bachelor's Degree - Occupational Health and Safety, or  safety related field.

Minimum Associate Safety Professional (ASP) or Graduate Safety Professional preferred. Candidate must be willing to complete certification within 6 months of hire.

Minimum Required: 1 - 2 Years equivalent experience. Preferred: 3 - 5 Years equivalent experience.