TRADE SAFETY ADVOCATE

You will serve as a in the TRADE SAFETY ADVOCATE in the LIFTING AND HANDLING DIVISION (CODE 700) of PSNS and IMF. You will serve directly as a Lifting and Handling consultant for various management levels on safety related regulatory requirements, shipyard processes, practices, and procedures governing industrial work. You will identify and evaluate a variety of hazards that may affect approximately 900 personnel in the Lifting and Handling Department, as well as personnel who work adjacent to, or participate in, associated weight handling work. You will serve as the lead safety expert in various Lifting and Handling processes, practices, procedures, and policies. You will collect and analyze various forms of data in order to evaluate and determine program effectiveness, set program goals, develop corrective actions and use data to advise managers on current and trending safety issues identified. You will conduct scheduled and unscheduled inspections in buildings, dry docks, aboard ships, cranes, and other industrial support equipment, around piers, and in various facilities You will provide mentoring assistance and direction to department personnel, as well as production shop safety program personnel, to ensure prevention of injuries. You will provide guidance and training as needed to shop mechanics, supervisors, and senior managers. You will apply methods, techniques, and abatements to control or eliminate unsafe practices or conditions. You will brief customers and senior managers on program and project status, updates, anticipated findings and corrective actions related to the department’s safety program, activities, goals, performance, and health during and after audits. You will provide mishap investigations and advise investigation boards convened to ascertain causal factors precipitating fatalities, serious injuries, or substantial property damage. You will apply investigative techniques, appropriate safety standards, and sound practices necessary to conduct a comprehensive report that fully and accurately documents final conclusions. You will manage Mishap Safety Reports (MSR) submitted for OSHA recordable injury reporting, and Employees’ Compensation and Management Portal (ECOMP) for employee occupational injury and illness claims. You will ensure proper adherence to Personal Identification Information (PII) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) to ensure employee information remains protected and kept confidential. You will review Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) controls for incorporation into work procedures and operations where the potential for injury, health impairment, or property and material damage exists. You will prepare or provide guidance in reports listing findings with recommendations to correct unsafe and unhealthful acts, conditions, or procedures, which may have caused injury, impairment, or property and material damage. You will act as the Lifting and Handling Environmental Coordinator ensuring compliance and awareness is sustained to maintain local and federal requirements and ensure proper waste disposal environmental policies are met. You will act as the Lock-Out-Tags-Plus Coordinator for hazardous energy control. You will review blueprints, fall protection plans, job hazard analysis (JHA), drawings, risk mitigations, hazardous energy control procedures and other technical documents to identify and evaluate OSH requirements. You will research, gather, and analyze information to prepare administrative correspondence, audit response and management reports related to safety performance.