This position is responsible for monitoring workplace activities and ensuring compliance with safety protocols and procedures on the job sites located in Duluth, MN area. - Assist the National Safety Manager in creating and implementing the site-specific safety program. - Establish safety pre-planning meetings with project management and subcontractors to discuss high risk activities and site safety requirements. - Attend daily safety meetings and pre-job briefings. - Facilitate weekly toolbox talks on specific safety topics. - Oversee Project Safety Leads and provide guidance. - Manage a safety team up to 10 individuals and establish roles and responsibilities for each safety representative. - Ensure safety training and orientations meet project expectations. - Educate workers about the company s safety policy and procedures. - Assist in developing and implementing safety and loss prevention programs. - Monitor safety performance of on-site workers to determine vulnerability. - Identify and remove unsafe or hazardous materials from job sites prior to each shift when necessary. - Inspect workplace and premises at beginning of each day to make sure it is safe for operation. - Perform inspection on machinery, equipment and tools that workers will use to ensure they are safe to operate. - Perform accident investigations to gauge measures that need to be taken to prevent them from reoccurring. - Write detailed reports on daily activities, inspections and on-site accidents. - Conduct safety audits on a periodic basis. - Ensure storage of hazardous materials and dangerous equipment in specially designated storage areas. - Communicate essential safety standards to workers during each walkthrough stage. PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS - This job operates at a job site and exposed to hazards typical of a construction site. - This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, filing cabinets, photocopiers and fax machines. - Employees are frequently required to walk on uneven surfaces, sit, and occasionally required to kneel, reach, stoop, crouch or crawl. - This position may occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. - Must wear hard hat, work boots, safety glasses, gloves and, high visibility vest.
