Safety Officer II (Corrections) - Occupational Health

Salary\: $47,424 - $71,110

Position Grade\: 208G

Department\: City Justice Center

Job Type\: Full-Time (Permanent)

Examination Number\: EX1575

Location\: Downtown - St. Louis, MO

Incumbents in this position are responsible for assisting with developing, reviewing, implementing and analyzing risk management programs in order for providing safe and happy workplaces for City employees. Duties include inspecting work sites, investigating accidents and injuries and enforcing safety policies and procedures.

Essential Functions and Responsibilities\:

● Inspects worksites for potential hazards, including fire hazards.

● Recommends action to eliminate/reduce workplace hazards.

● Investigates accidents and injuries occurring in the workplace.

● Enforces policies on safe operations and maintenance.

● Coordinates division-wide standard operating procedure writing program; writes manuals.

● Performs trend analysis by collecting injury reports, doctor’s reports and vehicle accident reports.

● Facilitates and presents training to City employees on safety, defensive driving, and health issues.

● Conducts industrial hygiene sampling.

● Develops risk management programs for the department.

● Represents department or division on committees and other groups.

● Works with operating department safety coordinators on City workplace safety issues.

● Refines and implements OSHA workplace safety standards.

● Monitors AED & fire extinguishers throughout the buildings under Division of Corrections control.

● Coordinates emergency plans with City Emergency Management (CEMA).

● Updates and keeps administration of emergency plan changes.

● Updates and changes emergency exit plans.

● Conducts annual and new employee/contractor training.

● Attends training as needed.

● Updates training modules related to safety.

● Maintains and updates OC, taser equipment and logs.

● Performs other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities\:

● Data Utilization\: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.

● Human Interaction\: Requires the ability to persuade, convince, influence, train and monitor, in favor of a desired outcome. Requires the ability to instruct.

● Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use\: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or provide simple but continuous adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as a personal computer, digital camera, motor vehicle and/or materials used in performing essential functions..

● Verbal Aptitude\: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as injury and accident reports, laboratory results, manuals and policies, OSHA & EPA regulations and nonroutine correspondence.

● Mathematical Aptitude\: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages, and decimals; requires the ability to interpret descriptive statistics.

● Functional Reasoning\: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems. Ability to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic or schedule form. Ability to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

● Situational Reasoning\: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental and/or subjective criteria, as opposed to criteria that are clearly measurable or verifiable.

● Environmental Factors\: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as odors, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, toxic/poisonous agents, violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.

● Physical Requirements\: Requires the ability to lift, carry, push and pull objects and materials of moderate weight, twelve (12) to twenty (20) pounds, such as training supplies and sampling equipment. Tasks involve the ability to exert moderate but not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching and crawling in order to conduct worksite inspections.

● Sensory Requirements\: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks, such as investigating hazardous worksites.