Health and Safety Consultant

**Health & Safety Consultant, Government & Public Safety**

(Regions: Guelph-Wellington, Grey Bruce)

**Why Join PSHSA?**

At PSHSA, you’ll have the opportunity to lead meaningful work that directly improves the health and safety of Ontario’s workplaces. We are a mission-driven organization guided by our i-CARE values: Innovation, Collaboration, Accountability, Respect & Integrity, and Excellence. As we look _Beyond the Horizon_, you’ll be part of a forward-thinking team that embraces continuous improvement, bold ideas, and digital innovation to protect and empower workers across the province.

We are a **remote-first** organization with a flexible work environment that supports balance, autonomy, and collaboration. Our teams are based across Ontario and stay connected through modern tools, strong values, and a shared purpose.

**We offer**:

- ** A competitive salary with a defined-benefit pension plan**:

- ** Comprehensive health and dental benefits from Day 1**:

- ** Healthcare Spending Account & Employee Assistance Program**:

- ** Support for personal and professional growth and development**:

- ** Home office support and ergonomic assessment**:

- ** A chance to make a lasting impact in the public sector**:
**Your Opportunity to Shape What’s Next**:
Reporting to the **Senior Director of Health, Safety and Wellbeing** the Health and Safety Consultant, provides health and safety training, support, guidance, and advice to all workplace parties within the specific sector in the Province of Ontario. This position develops proactive initiatives and strategies to foster health and safety as a core business value among clients.

In this position, you will be responsible for ongoing client engagement, building client relationships to help them improve health and safety outcomes, and to position PSHSA as a leader in delivery of client focused solutions.

**How You’ll Make an Impact**:
Relationship Management
- Initiates, fosters, maintains and develops relationships with the sector (worker, employer union, key partners and associations)
- Regularly identifies partnership opportunities and makes appropriate referrals.
- Develops and maintains collaborative working relationships with colleagues, external clients’ associations, and key partners to advance PSHSA’s objectives.
- Identify and develop consulting relationship with sector association and networking groups to advance knowledge/awareness of OHS/PSHSA and promotes the benefits of implementing health and safety initiatives; provides best practice examples, which have incorporated health and safety programs into their existing processes.

Client Engagement
- Proactively and reactively analyzes customer needs and concerns by researching the client’s history through a variety of mediums (i.e., Websites, firm profiles, applicable legislation and other informal sources) and applies health and safety expertise to improve their current program(s).
- Develop and coordinate training schedule to meet needs.
- Promotes the benefits of implementing health and safety initiatives; utilizes internal consulting processes to support and direct clients with the development of customized health and safety programs to be incorporated into their existing organizational structure.
- Prepares and presents effective proposals as part of the sales/consulting presentation to sector clients to illustrate the benefits of using PSHSA products and services to improve workplace health and safety.
- Seeks opportunities for revenue generation through selling/up-selling

Operational / Subject Matter Expertise
- Provides health and safety consulting services and or liaises with other PSHSA consultants to provide consulting services to assist clients with the reduction of workplace hazards and the elimination of workplace injuries and illnesses.
- Provides on-site private and public health and safety training and facilitation services to clients to increase workplace health and safety awareness.
- Assist in the development, review, and implementation of PSHSA products, programs and services.
- Collaborates internally with Client Acquisition, Workplace Wellbeing, Marketing and Multi-channel Delivery to identify, develop and deliver strategies to meet market needs.
- Proactively responds to client information requests promptly and accurately, serving as a resource for information and services; maintains records of all activities.
- Collaboratively researches and stays abreast of common health and safety trends within the sector.

**Your Strengths and Expertise**:

- A university degree or equivalent education and experience.
- Post-secondary completion of a health and safety program.
- Designation(s) in health and safety or related disciplines (e.g., CRSP, CCPE ROH) preferred
- Minimum 5 years of related job
- Knowledgeable in health and safety legislation, auditing, health and safety management systems.
- Significant experience in consulting, managing a client base, building relationships a