What are the responsibilities and job description for the Health & Safety Coordinator position at vegaamericas?
We are looking for a Health & Safety Coordinator to join our growing Team!
The Health & Safey Coordinator supports and maintains workplace safety programs for VEGA Americas, Inc. and Grieshaber Precision Americas. This position assist in ensuring regulatory compliance, promoting a positive safety culture, and supporting day-to-day safety operations. This role includes assisting with training, audits, documentation, incident response, and continuous improvement initiatives. Other duties may be assigned.
What you’ll do:
- Create and implement safety plans/programs in accordance with OSHA Standards.
- Train employees in worksite safety practices by promoting and leading a site culture where safety is ingrained as a core value.
- Assist with safety inspections of the production floor.
- Perform employee and written safety program audits.
- Investigates accidents and near misses. Provides corrective actions.
- Maintain chemical inventory list.
- Creation and training of JSA and LOTO assessments.
- Trains new employees on JSA for their respective areas.
- Ensure SDS sheets are current and up to date for all departments.
- Primary trainer for hazard communication related to new and internal transfer of employees.
- Assist with maintaining OSHA 300A log, report electronically through OSHA annually.
- Assist with monitoring subcontractors’ safety and compliance.
- Ensure that employees consistently follow safety protocols.
- Coordinate scheduling for quarterly emergency response team (ERT) meetings.
- Manage direct seller and field service PPE kits.
- Assist with annual fire and severe weather drills
- Manage first aid, hazardous waste, battery recycling and biohazard programs and service providers.
- Handles requests for certificate of insurance (COIs) for internal & external customers.
- Maintains insurance compliance within third-party safety sites. (ISN, Avetta, Veriforce, etc.)
- Assist with the management of safety documentation within third-party safety sites.
- Assist with the research and development of safety training topics.
- Assists with scheduled employee safety audits and plant inspections.
What you need
- High School Diploma
- 3 years of related experience
- OR a combination of education and experience related to the position
- OSHA 10- or 30-hour certification preferred or willingness to obtain
VEGA Americas manufactures, distributes, and services process instrumentation to measure level, density, weight, and pressure. Our products have been making industrial processes safer and more efficient for over 60 years.
As an employee, you’ll find VEGA Americas commits itself to the highest quality standards and respect for the individual needs of employees, customers, vendors, and shareholders. Don’t take it from us alone, VEGA has been awarded a Cincinnati Enquirer’s Top Workplace Award for 9 years running!
Our Mission: With innovative technologies and services, we develop solutions that inspire. Through our sense of simplicity and our focus on people, we are looking to the future with curiosity. Locally grounded and globally connected, together we give values a home.
Our Values: Curiosity, Humanity, Simplicity, Connectivity
VEGA Americas, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity employer. It is our policy that we will not discriminate against any person based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, disability, or veteran status.
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