Health, Safety and Environment Specialist

**Who We Are**

**SUMMARY**

The Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) Specialist develops, leads and executes health, safety and environment programs for assigned accounts and ensures ongoing compliance to all internal, and external and regulatory requirements to assist the account team in mitigating and managing environmental, health and safety-related risks and improving related performance. In addition, the Health, Safety, and Environment Specialist assists the Health, Safety, and Environment team in the development and deployment of health, safety, and environment management system and associated tools, processes and procedures according to applicable external management systems. The Health, Safety and Environment Specialist adopts a portfolio and systemic approach to implement the HSE management system, as well as interprets and advises on all HSE regulatory matters to ensure compliance with government legislation and industry standards.

**KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Program Execution**
- Executes health, safety, and environment programs and promotes a high health, safety, and environment culture for the assigned accounts
- Provides guidance and advice to account team members on health, safety, and environment matters in accordance to all applicable internal and external requirements. Applies knowledge of related regulations
- Executes health, safety, and environment processes and procedures for assigned accounts
- Collaborates with account teams to ensure team members are provided with adequate tools and resources to ensure the safe execution of work
- Maintains health, safety, and environment management systems registration including but not limited to ISO 14001, CSA Z1000, OHSAS 18001. Conducts internal systems audit and executes annual re-registration process requirements
- Achieves health, safety, and environment objectives for assigned accounts
- Assists and collaborates with the health, safety, and environment team to develop and continuously improve health, safety, and environment management system and associated processes and procedures according to applicable external management systems

**Incident Investigation, Resolution & Reduction**
- Investigates and resolves incidents
- Conducts root-cause analysis, identifies incident causes, and implements corrective and preventative measures
- Tracks, records, maintains and reports incident data. Identifies and analyzes trends
- Reviews and implements modifications to work plans, processes, procedures to reduce recurring incidents and improve health, safety, and environment performance
- HSE Specialists are responsible for working with line management to address health and safety issues and document these in non-conformance issues. If significant issues still remain uncorrected, HSE Specialists must escalate these within the HSE Department for further discussion and resolution.

**Communication & Training**
- Assists in the development and delivers health, safety, and environment training to account team members
- Assists in the development and deploys health, safety, and environment communication to account team members

**Compliance Management**
- Monitors and enforces compliance to all internal and external health, safety, and environment requirements
- Conducts field inspections, job observations; health, safety, and environment audits and other types of reviews to monitor compliance to health, safety, and environment requirements and to identify risks
- Communicates observations, non-compliance and risks to stakeholders, and provides and implements corrective and preventative measures to ensure compliance and mitigate risks
- Prepares and submits compliance reports
- Other duties as assigned

**KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS**
- Certification in one or more of the following - Certificate in Occupational Health & Safety, Certificate in Environmental Management through a Community College or University degree in Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Engineering, Environmental Sciences
- Community college diploma or equivalent training
- 3 to 5 years of health, safety, and environment program execution work experience
- Knowledge of health, safety, and environment regulatory requirements
- Knowledge of health, safety, and environment management systems - ISO 14001, CSA Z1000, OHSAS 18001, etc
- Strong program execution abilities
- Advanced communication, influence and persuasion skills
- Ability to promote health, safety, and environment programs and influence stakeholders to achieve health, safety, and environment objectives
- Ability to deliver health, safety, and environment-related training
- Ability to investigate and resolve health, safety, and environment incidents, conduct root cause analysis skills along with preventative and corrective measure implementation
- Effective written communication skills
- Ability to build and maintain effective relationships with internal and external stakeholders

**Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation**

Safety