SUMMARY:

The Environmental Health & Safety Specialist will develop, implement, maintain and support the Environmental Health & Safety programs of ACM Global Laboratories. This position will independently perform a wide range of duties to ensure that ACM Global Laboratory is in compliance with all applicable federal and state laws and regulations, accrediting agency standards and ACM policies. The EH&S Specialist will champion and or lead projects that will drive improvements in key Environmental Health & Safety performance KPI’s.
STATUS: Full-time

LOCATION: ACM Headquarters

DEPARTMENT: Facilities

SCHEDULE: Days

ATTRIBUTES:

• 3 years of experience applying local, state and federal OSHA & Environmental Regulations
• 3 years of safety compliance and management experience
• Associates Degree Preferred
• Excellent written, oral and presentation/communication skills

Key Responsibilities:

• Safety/Environmental. Coordinate the development and implementation of the global environmental health and safety programs, including oversight for any facility changes as it relates to safety. Establish collaborative ties to leadership throughout ACM to strategize and implement a framework for preventing and responding to environmental health and safety events and/or disasters. Chair Global EHS Team, which monitors environmental health and safety, and support security issues as they arise. Reports to Senior Management on employee and patient safety initiatives and annual safety program evaluation. Ensures compliance with all environmental, health and safety regulations and aware of any emerging changes to laws and regulations that impact ACM. Liaison with local, state and federal agencies in accordance with safety and environmental protocol. Maintains OSHA recordable incidents and other records. Monitor employee compliance to polices, training schedules, and laws by managing safety program data base and auditing operational practices. Ensures health and safety awareness for employees and visitors and compliance to OSHA and state regulations and policies. Develop safety plans, goals and objectives to reduce accidents. Investigate near misses and accidents, develop and carry out preventive plan for incidents. Investigate near misses and accidents, develop and carry out preventive plan for incidents. Manage all hazardous waste manifests and to ensure compliance to Environmental federal and state regulations. Assess ergonomic conditions and environment to reduce incidence muscular-skeletal conditions. Develop continuous improvement initiatives, such as recycling and waste reduction. Assist in planning a coordinated response for nuclear, biological and chemical public health exposures with local, county and regional agencies. Design, oversee, and participate in conducting new employee orientation and safety training.

• Facilities. Act as a principle consultant to ACM global facilities on issues related to environmental health and safety. Inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions. Investigate accidents or incidents and recommend corrective actions that would mitigate reoccurrences. Manage the maintenance of manuals, safety documents, Safety Data Sheets (SDS). Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and polices. Serve as coordinator of Emergency Action Plan and emergency responses including risk assessments, SOPs, Maps, etc. Assist in developing and monitoring appropriate Environmental Health and Safety supplies for the facility. Support the building security system, which include card access, video cameras and access badges. With the support of local leadership, maintain disaster recovery and business continuity plans globally. Perform other duties as as assigned.