What are the responsibilities and job description for the Environmental Health Safety Specialist position at Wilbert Funeral Services, Inc.?
Safety and Environmental Coordinator
Company Overview :
The Wilbert Group is a precast concrete and service provider that serves funeral services, building trades, and agricultural markets. The Wilbert Group offers a range of manufactured concrete products, including burial vaults, monuments, lawn crypts, columbarium niches, septic tanks, retaining walls, storm shelters, and agricultural precast products. The company operates manufacturing plants, warehouses, monument production facilities, a casket manufacturing plant, and crematories. The monument division produces granite memorials and markers, custom granite signage, and engraved brick pavers, and engages in wholesale monument sales.
Core Values
Integrity, Commitment, Innovation, Teamwork, Excellence
This position is responsible for planning, implementing, and maintaining a variety of environmental, health and safety programs to assure safety for all employees, protection of the environment and protection of company assets.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND RESULTS
- Reviews facility permits, applicable regulations, and work practices to identify environmental concerns and assure implementation of appropriate controls
- Ensure that federal, state and local laws, regulations, rules and codes are observed. Manage OSHA recordkeeping and reporting requirements
- Ensure all environmental obligations are completed
- Draft and review permit applications, regulatory notifications, periodic reports and records, and environmental management plans
- Conduct risk assessments, maintain documentation and review as needed
- Circulating lessons learned created to enhance communication of safety incidents
- Coordinate annual training required for new and existing employees
- Participate in development and implementation of environmental management systems, emission tracking systems, emergency preparedness, risk assessments and related programs
- Lead and conduct safety meetings
- Participate in annual Industrial Hygiene testing
- Evaluate and review safety procedures
- Create, maintain and train company personnel on all applicable EH&S policies and procedures
- Help develop controls for identified hazards, coordinate the implementation of controls from result of hazard analysis
- Measure and evaluate the effectiveness of the hazard control system, policies, and procedures and recommend changes that reflect improved opportunities to eliminate workplace accidents and injuries
- Identify and evaluate hazardous conditions and practices in the workplace, conduct and coordinate on-site inspections to audit physical conditions and safe work practices
- Provide advice and counseling for all compliance regulations
- Maintain site-specific policies
- Monitor, revise, and implement ongoing updates in safety regulations, laws or reporting requirements
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
REQUIRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Education
Experience
PREFERRED EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
Experience
