Health and Safety Administrator jobs in Lafayette, LA

The Opportunity:  

Total Safety is looking for a SSHO – Site Safety Health Officer for the dredging industry to join their safety conscious team!

Total Safety is the world's premier provider of integrated safety and compliance services and the products necessary to support them, including gas detection, respiratory protection, safety training, fire protection, compliance and inspection, industrial hygiene, onsite emergency medical treatment/paramedics, communications systems, engineered systems design, and materials management. Our Core Values are People, Safety & Wellbeing, Accountability, Responsibility, Empowerment, Honesty, Transparency, and Integrity. 

Essential Duties:  

• Perform Operator Qualification and Equipment Inspections.
• Ensure compliance with operator, OSHA, USACE, and all Client / Property Owner safety requirements.
• Prepare Activity Hazard Analysis (AHA) when required, and ensure crews are reviewing prior to commencement of work
• Conduct daily field inspections including: Attending an AHA Pre-Task meeting daily, and inspection of related work activities.
• Conduct
• Incident Investigations including: Near Miss, Property Damage, Injury, etc.
• Assist in Incident Case Management utilizing client protocols / procedures to minimize OSHA recordables and lost time injuries.
• Ensure any HSE related communications are performed including: Corporate Communications, Toolbox Talks, and Lessons Learned are completed in a timely manner.
• Ensure proper use of equipment, tools and PPE in the field.

Skills and Experience:  

• A minimum of the 30-hour OSHA Construction Safety Outreach training or equivalent and EM-385 within the last four (4) years.
• A minimum of five (5) years of experience working in the construction industry.
• 24 hours of formal classroom or online safety and health related coursework within the last 4 hours.
• A minimum of three (3) years continuous experience within the past 5 years in supervising / managing dredging, marine or land-based construction, work managing safety programs or processes, or conducting hazard analyses and developing controls in activities or environments with similar hazards.

Working Environment:  

• Able to work at various heights, the employee will be exposed to heat, cold, dust, fumes, or gases and to changes of weather.

Educational Requirements:  

High School diploma or GED. Associates degree in science or technical area strongly preferred.

Total Safety and its subsidiaries afford equal opportunity in employment to all individuals regardless of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, pregnancy, familial status, disability status, veteran status, citizenship status, genetic information or any other characteristic protected under Federal, State or Local law. Total Safety is an Equal Opportunity Employer.