Health and Safety Supervisor jobs in Topeka, KS

Position Summary: The Health & Safety Supervisor maintains a variety of occupational health and safety programs related to the safety of our employees and in compliance with applicable government regulations. It is the responsibility of the Health & Safety Supervisor to help identify hazardous workplace conditions, ensure compliance with applicable federal and state regulations and ensure necessary records are maintained in accordance with established guidelines. The Health & Safety Supervisor is responsible for initial medical treatment of injured employees and the management of the Workers’ Compensation claim that results. The Health & Safety Supervisor must be familiar with a variety of the field’s concepts, practices and procedures.

Reports To: Environmental, Health, and Safety Manager

FLSA Status: Exempt

Essential Job Functions/ Key Accountabilities:

• Implement, review and revise written safety programs and procedures.
• Perform relevant inspections and audits capturing and delegating necessary countermeasures.
• Document and maintain regulatory records including incident reports and OSHA Logs.
• Measure and track Safety KPI’s.
• Respond to EHS related incidents and participate in incident investigation.
• Recommend countermeasures based on incident investigation and collaborate with operating departments to implement them.
• Coach and counsel Production Employees, supervisors, and managers on improving safety of the work area and of specific required tasks.
• Assume leadership responsibilities for key kaizen and safety and environment improvement champion at all levels of the organization.
• Identify and manage correction of safety and environmental deficiencies.
• Maintain an accurate chemical and hazardous materials inventory.
• Perform Risk Assessments of specific jobs/tasks along with employees/supervision/management on the plant floor, serving as the barometer for rating riskiness of jobs between departments.
• Track Risk Assessment Numbers and create reports for operating departments demonstrating the risk of specific jobs and tasks within the department.
• Prioritize Risk Reduction efforts based on highest risk jobs.
• Recommend countermeasures for risk reduction and collaborate with operating departments to implement them.
• Estimate risk reduction based on hierarchy of risk, measure real reduction upon implementation of countermeasures.
• Administer various safety programs (shoes, hearing testing, Accident follow-up).
• Deliver Continuous Improvement - Build capability, establish best practices, and use standardized work processes to improve safety performance.
• Enhance the site capabilities in critical hazard program management, including but not limited to hazardous energy control; fall protection, mobile equipment and pedestrian interactions; powered industrial trucks; work permitting.
• Respond to regulatory requests as needed.

Training and Development

• Lead and Develop the Safety Committee to become the team of safety experts within each department.
• Develop and contribute to safety policies, procedures, and training.

Leading Teams/ Project Coordination:

• Establish and Lead the Safety Culture in the plant and on campus.
• Develop and deploy safety risk reduction and accident reduction projects.
• Develop Safety and Security capital projects through execution.
• Ensure projects are completed without compromising safety, quality, or cost.
• Manage contractors for associated projects as assigned.
• Back-up to the EHS Manager in emergency response situations.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives related to Safety through the Pillar.

Physical Demands:

• Perform basic office tasks.
• Must be able to bend, stoop, climb, reach and lift.
• Must be able to stand on hard, wet, slippery surfaces for extended periods of time.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

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