We are looking for a Health & Safety Coordinator to join our growing Team!
The Health & Safey Coordinator supports and maintains workplace safety programs for VEGA Americas, Inc. and Grieshaber Precision Americas. This position assist in ensuring regulatory compliance, promoting a positive safety culture, and supporting day-to-day safety operations. This role includes assisting with training, audits, documentation, incident response, and continuous improvement initiatives. Other duties may be assigned.
What you'll do:
- Create and implement safety plans/programs in accordance with OSHA Standards.
- Train employees in worksite safety practices by promoting and leading a site culture where safety is ingrained as a core value.
- Assist with safety inspections of the production floor.
- Perform employee and written safety program audits.
- Investigates accidents and near misses. Provides corrective actions.
- Maintain chemical inventory list.
- Creation and training of JSA and LOTO assessments.
- Trains new employees on JSA for their respective areas.
- Ensure SDS sheets are current and up to date for all departments.
- Primary trainer for hazard communication related to new and internal transfer of employees.
- Assist with maintaining OSHA 300A log, report electronically through OSHA annually.
- Assist with monitoring subcontractors' safety and compliance.
- Ensure that employees consistently follow safety protocols.
- Coordinate scheduling for quarterly emergency response team (ERT) meetings.
- Manage direct seller and field service PPE kits.
- Assist with annual fire and severe weather drills
- Manage first aid, hazardous waste, battery recycling and biohazard programs and service providers.
- Handles requests for certificate of insurance (COIs) for internal & external customers.
- Maintains insurance compliance within third-party safety sites. (ISN, Avetta, Veriforce, etc.)
- Assist with the management of safety documentation within third-party safety sites.
- Assist with the research and development of safety training topics.
- Assists with scheduled employee safety audits and plant inspections.
What you need
- High School Diploma
- 3+ years of related experience
- OR a combination of education and experience related to the position
- OSHA 10- or 30-hour certification preferred or willingness to obtain