Occupational Hygiene Officer

Job requisition number

039293

Job location

Surrey

Full-time / part-time

Full-time

Salary

$48.46 - $61.09/hourly

Expected Salary Range

Posting period

From 02/28/2025 to 04/11/2025

Overview

At WorkSafeBC, our Prevention Services division is dedicated to the prevention of workplace injury, illness, disease, and death. We work with employers and workers to reduce risk and keep workplaces healthy and safe through education, consultation, and enforcement.

If you share our passion for workplace health and safety and want to be part of an elite team of like-minded professionals helping employers prevent occupational illness, disease and disability, please read on.

We’re looking for enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and dedicated Occupational Hygiene Officers (OHO) to help us build safer and healthier workplaces in British Columbia. We have positions available in **Surrey.**

**Please note we are also actively recruiting for Abbotsford and Richmond locations in another posting on our careers page.**

**How you'll make a difference**:You’ll help ensure B.C. workers go home safely at the end of their workday.

**Where you’ll work**

In this role, you’ll work primarily in the field or community and remotely, based on the operational needs of the position. There may also be occasions when you are asked to come to the office, such as for training and orientation.

What you'll do

**As an Occupational Hygiene Officer you will**:
Engage with workers and employers from various industries to reduce risk and keep workplaces healthy and safe through education, consultation, and enforcement. You’ll make a positive, tangible difference by:

- Anticipating, recognizing, and evaluating physical, chemical, and biological health hazards, and recommending control measures
- Investigating accidents
- Conducting occupational hygiene assessments
- Discussing physiology, toxicology, epidemiology, and industrial ventilation principles
- Making and explaining decisions
- Influencing and directing the actions and opinions of others and taking control of critical situations
- Interpreting, applying, explaining, and enforcing WorkSafeBC regulations, policies, guidelines, and standards

Want to know more? Here’s what one of our Occupational Hygiene Officers has to say about his job.

Is this a good fit for you?

**We’re looking for people who can**:

- Use their interpersonal and communication skills to convey the potential hazards, risks, and/or controls and gain compliance on complex health and safety hazards within various work environments
- Use their critical thinking skills to analyze and evaluate unique workplace health and safety hazards and identify effective mitigations and controls
- Make and enforce timely decisions independently and objectively, using sound judgment and technical knowledge
- Handle high pressure, and sometimes tense situations and emergencies with a high level of professionalism

**Your background and experience**
- A **bachelor’s degree** with a major in **sciences or engineering** and either **two (2) years** of experience in **occupational** **hygiene**, or **three (3) years of industry experience** directly related to your field of scientific study **or**:

- A **master’s degree in occupational health** **or hygiene** with either **one (1) year of direct experience in occupational hygiene, or one (1) years of industry experience**directly related to your undergraduate field of scientific study **or**:

- Other combinations of education and experience may be considered
- Working knowledge of** industrial hygiene principles**and **practices**,** health sciences,**and** technical sciences**:
To see if you meet the requirements for this position before applying, please review our new **Job Preview** page where it will outline in more detail what we are looking for. There’s also a self-assessment questionnaire you can fill out to see if this career path is the right fit for you.

**Important to know**

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

- Consent to a criminal record check
- Confirm you’re legally entitled to work in Canada in a full time permanent basis

WorkSafeBC’s COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy (the “Policy”) is suspended effective January 9, 2023, however we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

**Who we are**

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We’re honoured to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in o