The Health and Safety Officer provide support in developing, implementing and maintaining safety, health and environmental programs and activities. Work in collaboration with internal and external groups to promote a safety-first culture, ensure regulatory compliance and enhance organizational performance in health and safety.

• Acts as the first point-of-contact for safety environmental and health inquiries and incidents.
• Provides guidance to team members on safety, environmental and health matters, and escalates inquiries, where appropriate
• Coordinates the implementation of environmental, health and safety programs, processes, procedures to meet organizational and regulatory requirements.
• Coordinates environmental, health and safety activities including but not limited to participating as a management member of Joint Health and Safety Committees, undertaking incident investigation and resolution, completing equipment and systems registration, developing emergency response procedures and business continuity planning activities, managing data and generating reports and conducting environmental compliance audits
• Researches environmental, health and safety matters; provides findings and recommendations
• Maintains and assists with the creation of environmental, health and safety documentation including but not limited to plans, processes, forms, logbooks, and procedures
• Creating, distributing, verifying and maintaining documentation such as instruction sheets, check lists, forms, and training materials for all Contractors before services begin
• Maintains business continuity and emergency management plans and procedures
• Participates in field inspections, job observations, health, safety and environment audits and other types of reviews for the purpose of monitoring compliance to environmental and health regulations and identifying risks. Provides findings about risks and suggestions for improvement
• Coordinates the implementation of corrective and preventative measures
• Assists in the identification and analysis of trends. Communicates observations and provides suggestions for incident reduction measures
• Maintains all environmental, health and safety data including but not limited to incident data, and regulatory and process compliance data within applicable databases and all other types of information storage systems
• Prepares and distributes various environmental, health and safety related reports including but not limited to incident reports
• Experience with database development, programing and maintenance considered an asset
• Conduct Hazard Assessments, through task analysis, physical demands analysis, risk assessments and workplace inspections; Recommending and/or implementing corrective action

Certificate in one of more of the following:

• Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety
• Certificate in Environmental Management through a Community College
• Environmental Sciences (preferably in a production or maintenance environment)
• or equivalent 3 years experience as a Health & Safety Associate (preferably in a production or maintenance environment)
• Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft

Operation System Windows 10

Intermediate to Advanced knowledge of MS Office 2010

Advanced ability to multi-task

Advanced ability to organize and coordinate

Strong verbal and written communication skills