Health and Safety Leader

**Position Overview**
At Garibaldi, we are dedicated to ensuring all our employees and visitors have a safe and healthy work environment. This position and incumbent are our safety champion promoting a strong culture of health and safety. The incumbent is responsible for planning, organizing, coordinating, and controlling all health and safety activities including document revision and control, safety training, claims management, facilitating and participating as the chair of the JOSH and Operations Safety management committee meetings. The incumbent is responsible for ensuring our program complies with all internal and external regulations and legislation.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Health and Safety Culture**
- Seek to continuously improve the company’s safety culture through communication, new practices, and innovation.
- Consult, coach, train and counsel line managers on various safety issues such as compliance, hazard and risk assessments, and development of procedures and controls.
- Safety communication champion to create an engaging and positive safety outlook.
- Acts as a change agent in support of continuous improvement.

**Health and Safety Program Management**
- Maintain OHS Program and ensure it is updated with new information and changes in regulations.
- Prepare and present monthly safety metrics (as per established company KPI’s)
- Communicate to management how initiatives are being received and how effective they are.
- Develop and manage an effective a root cause analysis program as part of an overall Corrective Action Program for both actual safety incidents as well as near misses - including incident assessment, capturing, and effectively communicating incident - learnings, and ensuring proper follow up of action plans together with management.
- Respond to and/or advise managers, supervisors, and team members in work refusal, emergency, or serious injury situations involving exposures or serious accidents.
- Collaborate with Production Leadership and staff to adhere to and improve the health and safety program and policies.
- Meet with each member of the Engineering Team and the Maintenance Team Leader on a bi-weekly basis to understand what they are working on for the next 30 - 60 - 90 days and help them to create an action plan to ensure that all safety items are identified and addressed.
- Meet bi-weekly with the Plant Leadership to share ongoing or trending data and understand the issues that they are having and help to address them.
- Co-chair monthly JOSH committee meetings and Safety management meetings, maintaining all necessary records and documentation associated with committees.
- Investigate concerns and suggestions brought forward by team members, or managers, and liaise with management and/or HR on issues as required.
- Provide, carry out and train on how to carry out risk assessments as needed.
- Study and interpret OHS legislation, regulations, and industry best practices.
- Coordinate and deliver safety training courses and testing or arrange for external training.
- Coordinate JOSH committee member training, team member training, hearing tests, fire alarm testing
- Working with the Purchasing department, ensure that our inventory of chemical products and substances complies with current WHMIS regulations.
- Organize an action plan after audits/inspections conducted by various external bodies, including the company’s customers, WorkSafe BC, Fire Dept., etc.
- Managing first aid program including management of files of first aid treatments, administering database, and maintaining first aid supplies and inventory.
- Evaluate and monitor health and safety hazards and recommend strategies to control risks in the workplace.

**Health and Safety Compliance**
- Ensure that the company is always compliant with all relevant regulations and legislation.
- Enforcement of the company’s OHS Program, and all other safety related policies, procedures, and instructions, across all job functions and duties, including team members, managers, contractors, and visitors.
- Take the lead in all COR audits to ensure compliance and successful outcome.
- Follow up action plans for internal departments, such as Maintenance, Operations, Production, etc.
- Comply with Company Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) policies for all areas and be responsible for safekeeping of all PPE provided by the company.

**General**
- Other duties and projects as assigned.

**Qualifications (Education, Experience, Training)**
- Certificate or Diploma in Occupational Health and Safety, or equivalent related education
- 5+ years’ experience in a safety-related position within the manufacturing industry
- CRSP designation or in process of achieving or willingness to achieve the designation.

**Required Knowledge, Skill and Abilities**
- Solid understanding and knowledge of OHS regulations in BC and Canada, including WorkSafe BC Regulations and the Worker’s Compensation Act
- A passion for safety and cre