Health & Safety Excellence Validator

Conduct desk and on-site (in person or virtual) validations, provide direction and guidance to employers on the implementation of Health and Safety Excellence Program requirements to facilitate the elimination/reduction of workplace injuries, illnesses and fatalities in their workplace. Provide Providers, WHSS and participants with expert advice, health and safety information and support, to ensure the successful implementation of health and safety topics. Provide input to setting program standards and continuous improvement initiatives- Note: Requirement to travel throughout the province with overnight absence from home to conduct validation, deliver presentations/seminars, attend partnership meetings and conferences.**Major Duties & Responsibilities**
- 1. Conduct desk and on-site (in person or virtual) validations of program topics submitted by program employers against Health and Safety Excellence Program guidelines to assess, evaluate and determine topic completion or incompletion.
- Validating the narrative story and evidence submission against the Health and Safety Excellence Program guidelines;
- Conducting validations following generally accepted audit principles; which includes a review of the employer documentation, potential interviews and observations during an onsite validation based on appropriate sampling size;
- Recognizing member success, educating and/or guiding employers in the selection of new health and safety topics for their action plan to assist in controlling workplace hazards that contribute to workplace injury/illness;
- Identifying trends/issues based on validation documents and recommending practical, effective solutions consistent with WSIB policy, HSEp guidelines;
- Preparing tailored validation decisions based on the judgement and findings of the validation to provide employer with validation results, rationales and opportunities for improvement to consider for current and future topic submissions;
- Notifying employers and providers based on the potential and actual validation results that may trigger one of the following: additional evidence required, on-site visit and/or eligibility/ineligibility for financial rebate;
- Leading meetings with employers and providers to identify trends and opportunities to improve evidence submission requests;
- Leading large validation submissions by delegating topics and facilitating discussions for review and narrative decisions;
- Addressing reconsideration submissions by reviewing and evaluating the information to explain the rationale for upholding the validation and/or reconsidering evaluation findings as necessary;
- Collaborate with external interest groups (i.e. - Occupational Health & Safety system representatives) to address and implement safety initiatives. Build valuable networking relationships through validation work.
- Coordinating validation feedback with the Providers to inform their guidance and affect future validation submissions
- 3. Engage and communicate Health and Safety Excellence Program benefits to employers to increase knowledge and help them implement health and safety initiatives that will reduce the risk for workplace injuries/illnesses by:
- Facilitating Health and Safety Excellence Program awareness sessions by highlighting the business case and benefits of the program using adult learning principles and to provide access to resources that will influence employers to develop and implement sustainable health and safety topics:

- Ensuring program content meets the specific needs of businesses, industry sectors or participant groups;
- Providing input and field intelligence to the development of webinar materials, power point presentations and supplementary materials based on needs analysis;
- Providing feedback on the development of marketing materials;
- Promoting and explaining eligibility opportunities for financial rebate and non-financial recognition upon achieving specific health and safety milestones to motivate and influence employers’ investment in health and safety programs
- Providing feedback on program evaluation tools to measure the following: effectiveness of tools, employer engagement, and overall program effectiveness.
- Establish and strengthen relationships with employers to identify and support their health and safety needs and while facilitating relationships with providers to enroll employers in the program;
- Identify and develop regional engagement approaches and implement retention tactics to promote achievement of engagement, enrollment and retention strategy and regional plans.
- 4. Participate in projects/meetings at the team and division level to support the development and implementation of program enhancements by:
- Engage in project work to make improvements within manager expectations and set timelines;
- Making recommendations to manager for increasing efficiencies and effectiveness of Health and Safety Excellence Program
- 5. Demonstrating professional conduct in order t