Safety and IH Contract Support

A federal agency requires an onsite (at the St. Elizabeth’s campus in Washington, DC) mid-level contractor support for the headquarters Environment, Safety & Health (ESH) program. The contractor will assist federal staff with occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, laboratory safety, reporting, corrective action tracking, and site visit support across agency laboratories and technical facilities.

The contractor will provide technical, analytical, and administrative support only and will not make final agency decisions, issue policy, certify compliance, direct federal employees, or perform inherently governmental functions.

The contractor shall support occupational safety, health, industrial hygiene, laboratory safety, and related program activities, including:

• Collecting, organizing, and analyzing safety and health information from laboratories, facilities, and program offices.
• Supporting OSHA and federal safety program reporting.
• Maintaining trackers, dashboards, spreadsheets, SharePoint lists, or other approved tools.
• Tracking corrective actions, responsible offices, due dates, completion status, and supporting documentation.
• Reviewing safety plans, procedures, project materials, inspection results, incident information, and industrial hygiene documentation.
• Identifying potential hazards, gaps, corrective action needs, and program improvement opportunities.
• Drafting or revising OSH policies, procedures, guidance, checklists, templates, reports, briefings, issue papers, and meeting summaries.
• Supporting audits, inspections, assessments, data calls, program reviews, and site visits.
• Coordinating with facility safety personnel, collateral duty safety personnel, program managers, and others as directed by the Government.

Support areas may include occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, laboratory safety, OSHA regulatory compliance, hazard communication, PPE, job hazard analysis, exposure assessment, hazardous materials, chemical safety, radiological safety, explosive safety, incident reporting, and corrective action management.

The contractor may be tasked to assist with site visits, assessments, inspections, and program reviews by preparing agendas and checklists, reviewing facility information, as well as participating in walkthroughs as directed, documenting observations, preparing draft summaries, and tracking follow-up actions.

The contractor shall not independently conduct official inspections, issue official findings, direct facility personnel, approve facility designs, or certify compliance on behalf of the Government.

The contractor may prepare or maintain:

• Draft safety and health program documents.
• Draft industrial hygiene and laboratory safety materials.
• Draft policies, procedures, guidance, checklists, and templates.
• Corrective action trackers and status reports.
• Site visit agendas, notes, summaries, and follow-up trackers.
• OSHA and federal safety reporting support materials.
• Incident, hazard, near-miss, injury, illness, and corrective action summaries.
• Briefings, issue papers, leadership updates, meeting minutes, and draft data call responses.

All deliverables are draft unless reviewed and approved by designated Government personnel.

Ideal candidates will have:

• Bachelor’s degree in occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, environmental health, public health, engineering, chemistry, biology, physical science, environmental science, or a related technical field.
• At least five years of relevant experience in occupational safety and health, industrial hygiene, laboratory safety, environmental health and safety, or federal safety program support.
• Experience supporting safety and health programs in a multi-facility, laboratory, research, technical, federal, or similarly complex environment.
• Experience reviewing or developing safety documents, procedures, hazard assessments, inspection reports, corrective action plans, training materials, reports, briefings, trackers, or data summaries.
• Knowledge of OSHA requirements, hazard communication, PPE, recordkeeping, injury and illness reporting, industrial hygiene, and laboratory safety practices.
• Ability to identify hazards, gaps, corrective action needs, and improvement opportunities.
• Strong communication, organization, data analysis, documentation, and records management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, and similar tools.
• Ability to travel occasionally and meet federal agency suitability, background investigation, badging, and security requirements.

Preferred qualifications include federal OSHA program experience, laboratory or research and development safety experience, industrial hygiene experience, relevant safety or health certification.

Work will primarily occur in the government office headquarters (e.g., St. Elizabeths campus). Occasional travel may be required to laboratories, facilities, or other government locations.