Safety Manager – Austin Industrial Decatur, IL (PER DIEM)

Austin External
Decatur, IL
Category Engineering
Job Description
Austin Industrial seeks a Safety Manager to develop and implement safety policies, conduct training, and ensure compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment.

Requirements

  • Select and assign staff to different roles, ensuring equal opportunities in hiring and in promotion
  • Prepare and maintain records, reports, and formulate correspondence relative to the job
  • Monitor and organize special studies and/or analysis of safety programs and policies/procedures
  • Organize and also take part in assessing already existing safety programs and policies
  • Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need arises
  • Identify the training and development needs of company staff, and also ensure that the needs are met
  • Coordinate various activities like scheduling of work assignments, monitoring the work of junior employees, and setting of clear priorities
  • Inspect machinery used in the workplace in a bid to find out possible unsafe conditions
  • Work hand-in-hand with company medical services unit to provide and organize emergency services for injured and/or sick staff
  • Establish target areas and long-term accident prevention and cost control goals
  • Be regularly aware of new developments in safety laws that are bound to have effect on the organization
  • Act as a representative of the company when it comes to society or industry safety programs
  • Regularly provide training and coaching across all staff levels as required by the government’s safety rules and regulations
  • Make sure that new employees are well-informed as regards safety instructions before they start work, and also emphasize and explain any form of possible environmental hazard, including applicable precautions
  • Provide leadership during safety threatening crisis situation at workplace that ensures calmness
  • Other duties as assigned.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, life and disability insurance
  • Matching 401K plan
  • Employee-owned company (ESOP)
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