Senior Safety Job Description
Senior safety
provides assistance to project and construction management in implementing and complying with project safety requirements and in addressing safety/health issues as they arise during project execution.
Senior Safety Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Provide oversight and technical support in the practical application of regulatory procedures/ requirements and standards applicable to the occupational safety discipline per the requirements in 10 CFR Part 851, Worker Safety and Health Program
Facilitates review and revision of ESH policies and procedures at the Project level
Manages the administration of training programs in occupational safety
Develop, coordinate, and execute an effective safety training program by assessing training needs and delivering hands-on and classroom based courses
Confers with project management and supervisors on ESH matters requiring conformance with UCOR’s customer, and governmental requirements
Assists the Director of Pharmacovigilance Operations and V.P
Assist with oversight and management of safety vendor to ensure timely SAE case entry, processing, notification to business partners, and expedited report submission and tracking
Perform quality check on selected SAE reports
Perform AE/SAE reconciliations
Coordinate and facilitate the review of SAEs by the Drug Safety Medical Reviewers to assure timely assessment of cases
Senior Safety Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Senior Safety
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: EMT, CSP, OSHA, CHST, CDL, DOT, OHST, HAZWOPER, ASP, CIH
Education for Senior Safety
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the senior safety job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Engineering, Health, Science, Education, Industrial, Management, Physics, Chemistry, Technical, Public Health
Skills for Senior Safety
Desired skills for senior safety include:
Procedures
Best management practices for minimizing potential safety risks during project execution
Industry standards/practices for safety and health compliance
Principles
Engineering and construction systems
Methods
Work processes
Methodologies
Estimating
Execution
Desired experience for senior safety includes:
Conceptualizes and integrates state-of-the-art safety technologies
Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent due to experience
5 years minimum appliance product design related experience
Removes barriers for the success of those people
Proven track record for discipline and rigor in achieving targets
Requires a Bachelors degree in Safety or related field and at least 5 years’ experience in occupational safety
Senior Safety Examples
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Senior Safety Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of senior safety. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for senior safety
- Act as the Drug Safety representative for assigned studies and for safety related activities including participation in the review of study protocols and amendments, safety management plans, study SAE forms and instructions, review of study data management plans, clinical data review plans, data listing reviews, and all other study documents or activities requiring safety review and input
- Ensure compliance with local and international reporting of adverse events throughout the program including reporting to Competent Authorities, Ethics Committees, central Institutional Review Boards and Investigators
- Facilitate the request for listings of similar events from the drug safety vendor, for the analysis of similar events as needed
- Record hazards in Hazard Log, assess safety risks, review hazard mitigations, evaluate the design and track hazard status throughout close-out process
- Review the adequacy and completeness of the safety evidence, including test and verification reports, and produce the Safety Case
- Work as part of integrated project team and promote company's safety policy and best practices
- Ensures safety compliance and drives reduction of health & safety risk through mastery of technical defenses such as chemical elimination, ventilation, LOTO, machine guarding, fall protection, personal protective equipment and emergency response
- Has direct responsibility to provide expertise, guidance and coaching in all safety areas, with specific ownership of programs in the areas of Mechanical Safety such as machine guarding for lathing, milling, planning, grinding, drilling, bending, pressing or other machining equipment, molding and forging process safety, industrial robots and motor vehicle safety , and potentially at least one additional significant safety area of expertise such as crane & hoist safety across the region
- Serves as a coach and mentor to other EHS professionals to build the Mechanical Safety Expert pipeline in the region
- Meets applicable regulatory codes and standards where required
Qualifications for senior safety
- Solid understanding of Safety system operation and case processing
- Have high levels of professional integrity
- Communicate well at all levels and have the commitment to identify, analyse and propose solutions to problems in a constructive and positive manner
- Master's Degree and 8+ years work experience or equivalent
- Comprehensive knowledge of chemical safety program development and implementation, to include reactive chemistry, at laboratory or high hazard facilities
- Comprehensive skill and experience in analysing chemical reactivity hazards and developing and implementing work controls
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Our company is hiring for a senior safety. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for senior safety
- Audit safe work practices and procedures
- To assist in implementation and the placement of "lock-out/tag-out" procedures on the manufacturing floor at each machine or machine group
- Advise employees on safe work methods
- ES&H Specialists are expected to pursue and/or complete ES&H related professional certifications including, but not limited to the Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Chartered Member of the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health (CMIOSH), Certified Health Physicist (CHP), Certified Ergonomic Associate (CEA), and Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) certifications
- Prepares and maintains monthly Workers Compensation data and reports
- Monitors Workers Compensation claims and costs
- Assists in the education of Supervisors and Managers on Corporate Safety Programs for multiple sites
- Monitors and review accident investigation reports and ensures appropriate follow-up
- Process timely SAEs reports of FivePrime investigational products in accordance with all applicable regulations, guidelines
- Assess the operations of large, more complicated commercial accounts to identify potential loss producing conditions and practices for each of the typical coverages provided to such customers
Qualifications for senior safety
- Considerable knowledge and skills in leadership application that ensure that chemical safety concepts, including such activities as development of personnel training, field inspections, and exposure assessment, review of requisitions to ensure proper hazard control specifications are in place
- Considerable ability to plan and conduct chemical safety surveillance and audits and provide reviews of self-assessment plans
- Considerable verbal and written communication skills
- Good knowledge of DOE chemical safety, environmental and safety regulations and requirements (state/federal applications - OSHA, RCRA)
- Good ability to develop innovative approaches for implementing chemical safety programs and controls that meet applicable regulations and requirements in a research and development environment
- Good ability to stimulate effective interactions with internal and external chemical safety professionals
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a senior safety. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for senior safety
- Achieve service account impact and retention ratio annual improvement
- Maintain current knowledge of state of the art loss prevention and safety management techniques through self-education and training programs
- Conduct safety inspections and develop Job Safety Analysis
- Review new machine installations
- Implementation of a safety management software system
- Developing and/or delivering safety training
- Conduct accident investigations and recommend corrective actions
- File records and enter data
- Apply considerable safety knowledge to identify potential safety, health, workers' compensation, and fire protection prevention risks, and implement corrective measures
- Monitor and evaluate employees and the workplace to ensure compliance with all OSHA, Process Safety Management (PSM) and company Safety and Health regulations
Qualifications for senior safety
- Certification as a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and/or Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) is desirable
- Maintain a working knowledge of best practices and approaches as related to chemical safety and chemical reactivity hazard analysis techniques
- Minimum of bachelor’s degree (health care professional preferred, nurse, pharmacist and ), and at least 3 years of Drug Safety experience, preferably 5 yearse
- Relevant experience in Drug Safety case processing
- Experience using a drug safety database
- Experience using MedDRA and WHO-DRUG dictionaries
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Our company is looking to fill the role of senior safety. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior safety
- Design safety methods to motivate and influence the creation of a world class safety culture
- Create a network of internal and external alliances to implement Safety policies, programs, procedures, standards, training, and processes
- Manage the corporate Human Performance Defense and Human
- Performance Observation Processes
- Perform safety inspections/audits and monitor work practices to ensure employees are performing jobs in compliance with regulatory and company safety policies and programs
- Responsible for performing periodic tests on fire systems and equipment to ensure compliance with technical specifications
- Develop, implement, and conduct safety training and presentations
- Administer safety programs for both station employees and contractors
- Support the safety committee
- Listen and act on employee concerns
Qualifications for senior safety
- Considerable skill in demonstrating technical and organizational skills including project management
- Familiarity with the content of standard pharmacovigilance documents such as SOPs, guidelines, safety plans
- Ability to independently identify problems and effectively offer solutions
- Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team in a fast-paced challenging environment
- Knowledge of the clinical areas for which Mallinckrodt markets products
- 7+ years of Health & Safety experience with a working technical understanding of Mechanical Safety
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Our company is looking for a senior safety. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for senior safety
- Monitor OSHA compliance
- Perform accident investigations and follow up on injuries with company doctors
- Support fitness for duty program
- Participate in benchmarking efforts to enhance Dominion's safety culture
- Primary coding resource for assigned products and studies
- Identifies when terms or drug names are inadequate, ambiguous or unclear for coding purposes and direct query generation in such aspects
- Provide input into the development of the corporate Safety strategy
- Execute corporate safety vision through the implementation & continuous improvement of the SYSCOSafe/Vision Zero process & loss prevention strategies
- Provide input into the development of standardized safety systems, policies, training, safety campaigns and programs to prevent injury/accidents and ensure compliance with OSHA regulations
- Maintains awareness of potential, pending, and current legislation that may impact safety standards, programs, and initiatives
Qualifications for senior safety
- Update and maintain an EU Safety Training, Competency and Assessment Policy and Procedure ensuring local legislative requirements are met
- Create and maintain a training and competency expectation for contractors – induction, job specific and control of work/permit, including refresher expectations
- Ensure competency criteria is appropriately assessed for required level of knowledge and/or skill
- Assist Regional operational and functional support teams with EHS training needs analysis and competency assessment framework
- Liaise with RSM and EU Project roles for additional regional specific or project requirements to identify and implement mandatory EHS, refresher training and competency assessment as appropriate
- Ensure compliance to EU and Country law as it applies to mandatory EHS training requirements working closely with the existing EU EHS and the WW EHS teams to deliver this component of EHS management system