Onsite Safety Professional - NYC area and Tarrytown NY

Onsite Safety Professional

Gallagher Bassett Technical Services, Inc. an AJ Gallagher company, is seeking an Onsite Safety Professional on a Construction Site. We are a highly energetic company and offer competitive benefits. The candidate should have a team player attitude, be a highly motivated individual, and have attention to detail.

Work as an Onsite Safety Professional on Construction Sites in the NYC Metropolitan and or Tarrytown NY area

Job Summary

We are looking for a passionate and proactive safety professional to ensure that safety and health procedures are followed on the construction project. The individual must possess prior experience in steel erection.

Job Duties

The Safety Professional to act as the on-site Safety Consultant to assist in improving safety performance on the construction and/or demolition project. The Safety Professional's activities may include the following:

• Collect and maintain copies of Subcontractor Safety Programs in the jobsite field office.
• Perform new worker safety orientations that are intended to provide general hazard recognition about conditions specific to the site and maintain a written record of orientations in the safety file. If approved by the Client, a Hardhat sticker program will be implemented.

Verify and document the onsite subcontractor safety representatives/competent persons.

• The Safety Professional will coordinate regular Project Safety Meetings, maintaining minutes or some other record. These may be a segment of the regularly scheduled coordination meetings or a separate meeting specifically for safety.
• The Safety Professional will collect weekly toolbox talk meeting minutes from Subcontractor Safety Representatives/Competent Persons.
• The Safety Professional shall inspect, on a regular basis, areas and items throughout the jobsite in an attempt to determine that the conditions at the site meet the requirements of Federal, State and Local Standards, and the Loss Control Program implemented for the project. Inspections shall not include technical inspections relating to any aspect of design, structural integrity or the means and method of work. The Safety Professional shall maintain a written log of inspections. If unsafe acts or conditions are observed the Safety Professional shall note these observations in the daily log, note the subcontractor that any recommendation for correction was made to, and indicate the date that the item was corrected by the person or company notified.
• If necessary, comprehensive accident investigations will be conducted by the Safety Professional; investigation can include interviews, photographs and written reporting.
• The Safety Professional shall coordinate loss control inspections with insurance broker, carrier representatives and accompany any regulatory official on safety inspections.
• The Safety Professional must be on the job while work is in progress and must be available to work at times that coincide with the normal working hours of the job, including overtime, shift, nights, weekend and/or holiday work.

Requirements Must possess prior experience in steel erection.

• Minimum of five years of experience working in/with the construction field
• English/Spanish speaking a plus