SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

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Responsibilities include the development, planning, and execution of SWRMC's Shipboard Fire Safety and Response Program and Fire Response Plan. Ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, NAVSEA Standard Items, SWRMC Local Standard Items, Navy Instructions, and OSHA laws and regulations. Reviewing Ship's Force, Lead Maintenance Activities, and contractor work affecting damage control and fire response systems and capabilities; resolving conflicts and disapproving actions to maintain adequate fire safety conditions. Conducting unplanned event/mishap investigations on shipboard fire related incidents and completing a detailed report provided to the Safety Manager. Identifying hazardous conditions created by proposed actions, disapproving actions (as necessary) to maintain fire safety, utilizing sound risk assessment techniques. Ensuring contractors comply with contractual requirements such as NAVSEA Standard Items and SWRMC Local Standard Items. Non-conformance that warrant government corrective action is documented via Corrective Action Request (CAR). Providing safety guidance to employees performing a range of duties at SWRMC to ensure command-wide compliance with occupational safety and health laws and regulations promulgated by federal, state and local government entities. Managing specialized programs such as: Respiratory Protection Program, Fall Protection Program, Ergonomics Program, Fire Warden, Traffic Safety, Medical Surveillance, Energy Control Program, and Recreational Off-Duty Safety. Overseeing the management of and ensuring that occupational safety and health reports and data are compiled and submitted in a timely manner. Conducting annual reviews of assigned Environmental, Safety, and Health (ESH) programs to include the review of standard operations procedures and instructions. Conducting and documenting ESH inspections as required by Navy policy and as determined by the Safety Manager. Inspections are conducted in industrial and nonindustrial settings (e.g., office spaces, production areas, shipboard, piers/wharfs).