Occupational Health

**general purpose**

The Occupational Health & Safety Officer provides safety leadership and support to both Rogers Foods Ltd. Divisions in addition to ensuring compliance with Corporate and Federal legal safety standards and regulations.

**responsibilities**

**Safety Management**

• Identify and prioritize areas of safety performance concerns and opportunities for improvement
• Identify best practices and lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce work process risks, raise safety awareness, and improve safe work practices
• Ensure continual safety improvements and set annual objectives. Monitor results and audit progress and recommend policies and procedures to reduce risks and hazards
• Perform safety and environmental audits and inspects facilities, machinery, and safety equipment to identify and correct potential hazards, and to ensure safety regulation compliance
• Work with divisional supervisors/managers to develop remediation solutions for audit issues
• Participate with divisional supervisors/managers to investigate industrial accidents, near-miss incidents, and occupational injuries to determine causes, install preventative measures and help manage return-to-work activities
• Develop, update and manage workplace safety programs, risk assessments, rail spur safety programs, WHMS systems, standard work procedures and policies
• Manage workplace safety programs, procedures and policies
• Conduct or outsource environmental testing, ergonomic assessments

**Safety Training**

• Establish and monitor safety programs designed to reduce lost-time incidents, recordable cases and improvements in the divisional/company safety records
• Establish facility safety programs, including on-boarding and record keeping working with plant leadership and human resources to ensure these programs are carried out
• Ensure training activities are recorded in the company’s HRIS and monitored for applicable expiry dates
• Review and revise emergency evacuation plans, conduct annual fire/evacuation drills

**Safety Administration**

• Monitor, analyze and report safety and environmental metrics and performance for the divisions
• Prepare and submit annual compliance reports to EAHOR
• Review reports of injury to ensure completeness and appropriate action is taken to prevent reoccurrence
• Coordinate or administer health and safety testing/certifications for employees
• Work with Human Resources to ensure proper execution of workers’ compensation programs
• Responsible for compliance with Canada Labour Occupational health and Safety requirements and ensures employees follow established practices and guidelines
• Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s) while preforming job duties and tasks
• Other related duties as assigned

**qualifications**

• Demonstrated post-secondary education majoring in Occupational Health & Safety and/or hold a recognized OH&S designation i.e. CSO, NCSO, CRSP, etc.
• Minimum of 3 to 5 years of related leadership experience
• Demonstrated working knowledge of all safety rules at all levels of government including Work Safe BC and Federal Health & Safety Regulations
• Possess or be agreeable to obtain “Trainer” certifications to provide in-house training in areas of Confined Space, Forklift, Fall Protection, etc.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Programs to produce health and safety program documentation.
• Strong written and oral communication skills
• Self-motivated with strong project management and multi-tasking skills is required
• Valid driver’s license and ability to travel monthly between divisions
• Based out of the Fraser Valley (Chilliwack) or the Okanagan (Armstrong), TBD

Schedule

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to Commute

• Chilliwack, BC (required)

Work Location: In person