Safety Manager – Austin Industrial (Plaquemine, LA)

Austin External
Any Location, LA
Category Engineering
Job Description
Safety Manager responsible for developing and implementing safety policies, conducting training, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations to create a safe workplace environment. Other duties may be assigned.

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; assessing accident/injury reports, and arranging accident/injury-related statistics
  • Establish procedures and recommend changes in policies if the need arises. Recommend solutions to issues, prevention measures, and other avenues for improvement
  • 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 finding 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

  • Life insurance
  • Medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Paid time off
  • Other benefits (not specified)
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