Safety Coordinator

Job DetailsJob Location: BATCHELOR, LA 70715SUMMARY The Safety Coordinator is responsible for administering federal, state, and local regulations pertaining to life, safety, emergency response, lockout/tagout, confined space, and accident/injury. Implement general and specific standards that have been adopted by Company policy with specific measures for implementing, reviewing, and setting safe work environment and THM. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following. Other duties may be assigned. • Coordinate EHS (Employee Health and Safety) and THM (Total Housekeeping Management) programs • Ensure EHS program is in compliance with Company, federal, state, and local guidelines. • Follow and enforce all safety regulations. • Conduct THM and EHS compliance audits. • Manage THM and safety records/documentation. • Review current safety training and recommends revisions, improvements, and updates. • Provide EHS training elements to all employees pertaining to general and specific safety measures. • Collaborate with management to stop operations and activities that could harm staff or equipment, and address personnel when non-compliance is identified. • Conduct accident investigations. • Effectively lead safety committee team and activities of designated safety personnel. • Instruct and follow-up on the activities of inexperienced employees. • Perform other job-related duties as required. SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES This position has no supervisory responsibilities. QualificationsQUALIFICATIONS To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE Five (5) years of safety experience required, including experience facilitating an effective EHS program in an industrial setting. Advanced training or certification in safety preferred. COMPUTER SKILLS Possess intermediate knowledge of MS Word, Excel, and Outlook. Internet/Intranet experience preferred. LANGUAGE SKILLS Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization. MATHEMATICAL SKILLS Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra and geometry. REASONING ABILITY Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exits. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, verbal, diagram or schedule form. PHYSICAL DEMANDS The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 1. Have adequate sight, hearing, and use of limbs to safely operate powered vehicles. 2. Sights capabilities to distinguish proper product identification as well as warning and operational indicators. 3. Hearing capabilities to distinguish differences in warning alarm indicators and standard operation indicators 4. Sight capabilities to identify accuracy and neatness of required job assignments. 5. Stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling capabilities to handle job requirements. 6. Balancing to maintain body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching in all areas due to limited direct supervision and/or observation. 7. Ability to verbally communicate either face to face or via telephone with other fellow employees to accomplish all assigned job requirements. 8. Climb and descend ladders or steps whether fixed or portable on company facilities in order to access all areas if needed. 9. Hear and understand verbal communication whether it is face to face or via telephone. 10. See and understand written communication 11. Walking through, under, and around machinery with clearance of 30" 12. Activates and uses telephone, calculators as required in assigned job requirements. 13. Ability to feel objects, size and shape and to determine temperature by touching of skin, primarily by that of the finger tips. WORK ENVIRONMENT The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing job duties, the employee may be exposed to working around moving machinery and vehicles, inclement weather or other outside environment conditions.