Area Safety Manager Toronto

4 weeks ago


Scarborough, Canada First Student Full time

First for a reason:
**At First Student, we are a family of 60,000+ employees who take pride in safely transporting more than 5 million students and passengers to and from their destinations each day Our family of brands include Transco, Total Transportation, Maggies Paratransit, and GVC II. Our employees are at the forefront of safety and innovation; they create and implement the most advanced training and technology the transportation industry has to offer.**The Area Safety Manager (ASM) supports the safety of designated locations for all operational, facility and shop activities within the geographic area. The ASM works directly with the Area General Manager and must be able to lead behavioral and organizational change by influencing and change management. The ASM drives continuous improvement by reviewing data and deploying strategies to mitigate risks. The ASM ensures that division safety initiatives and processes and embedded into the area operations and monitors adherence to strategic and program initiatives. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations and company policy.

The Area Safety Manager (ASM) plays a key role in ensuring the safety of designated locations across all operational, facility, and shop activities within the assigned geographic area. Reporting directly to the Area General Manager, the ASM is responsible for driving behavioral and organizational change through effective influence and change management strategies. By analyzing data and implementing targeted risk mitigation strategies, the ASM fosters continuous improvement in safety practices. This role ensures the seamless integration of division safety initiatives and processes into area operations while monitoring compliance with strategic and program objectives. Additionally, the ASM upholds adherence to federal, and provincial regulations, as well as company policies.

**Major Responsibilities**
- Works with the RSD, LSM, LM and the Maintenance Manager, to ensure safety provisions are developed and deployed in accordance to budget and guidance.
- Identifies underperforming locations to established targets, perform analysis and work with location team to develop, recommend, and implement continuous improvement processes.
- Conduct comprehensive incident investigations for all serious events. Assists to develop actions and ensures lessons learned are communicated and implemented.
- Share best practices and innovative approaches for problem solving at locations managed by the position.
- Provide support to RSD and Risk Management on claims management and in litigation. Complete Root Cause Analysis with operations and maintenance as required.
- Work closely with the workers’ compensation third-party administrator to proactively manage claims.
- Has direct responsibility to ensure proper driving trainer staffing levels. Work closely with operations and HR to identify trainer needs and effectively administer driver onboarding.
- Assist locations to determine and implement proper remedial actions for safety events and review disciplinary actions with HR and Operations.
- Multiple location oversight to guide locations on compliance with First Student policies and SOPs, as well as applicable laws and regulations, provide visibility of location compliance scores to regional and senior team.
- Prepare monthly reports and safety performance analysis for locations. Identify trends and corrective actions and communicate to AGM and management team.
- Assess location safety performance by utilizing Daily Dispatch, Driver Mobile Manager, and other applicable tools.
- In partnership with LM, will participate in the recruiting process for selection and on-boarding of new LSM’s.
- Provide safety training for new LMs and LSMs; develop LSM competencies and skills and support Regional train the trainer workshops.
- Ensure operational efficiencies at a location level by utilizing Focus, Zonar, and the Safety Care database
- Perform location Safety Wellness Checks at least annually, at high risk locations this may require more frequent inspections and safety reviews.
- Assists HR/LM with driver recruitment, retention, and training activities
- Supplements the site safety review process by conducting safety audits. Additionally, the ASM works with the locations and RVPs/AGMs to properly close Site Safety Review actions.
- ASM manages the BeSafe process, including Safety Leadership course delivery, identifying and onboarding BeSafe Coaches and monitor debrief quality.
- Works with RVP, AGM and LM regarding the communication and execution of divisional wide activities and actions..
- Provides technical oversight to the LSM, as needed, while the requests from LM’s will be prioritized and in partnership with the ASM to support the Operations and Safety function.
- Verification of location compliance with PDDP, EDTP, Non
- Conforming Vehicles standards and conduct quality assurance by auditing elements of training programs being conducted


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