Job Description

The Site Safety & Health Officer (SSHO) is responsible for the development and/or review of the Accident Prevention Plan, activity hazard analysis’s, amendments to the accident prevention plan, on site safety education, toolbox safety meetings, all around safety compliance of the project, and a proactive innovative attitude towards solving difficult site-specific safety issues. The SSHO is responsible for managing, implementing, and enforcing the project Accident Prevention Plan. The SSHO shall provide full-time on-site safety and occupational health management, surveillance, inspections, training, and safety enforcement.

• Conduct personnel and equipment inspections daily
• Conduct safety orientations and meetings with personnel at the jobsite
• Conduct mishap investigations
• Maintain applicable safety reference material at the jobsite
• Attend pre-construction conference, pre-work meetings, and three phase inspection meetings
• Implement and enforce APP, AHAs and EM 385-1-1
• Ensure subcontractor compliance with safety requirements
• Ensure proper use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Serve as a subject matter expert for specific areas like crane lifts, lock-out/tag-out, fall protection, trenching, scaffolding, and confined space work.
• Enforce safe work practices and safe working conditions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in related field or equivalent experience and education.
• A minimum of 5 years of construction industry safety experience; federal government construction projects preferred.
• 30-hour OSHA construction safety class or equivalent
• An average of at least 24 hours of formal safety training each year for the past 4 years with training for competent person status for at least the following [4] areas of competency: [Excavation]; [Scaffolding]; [Fall protection]; [Hazardous energy]; [Confined space]; [Health hazard recognition, evaluation and control of chemical, physical and biological agents]
• Experience in implementing Accident Prevention Plans, and current EM385-1-1.
• Valid First Aid / CPR certification

Job Tags

Full time, For subcontractor,

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