SAFETY AND OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH SPECIALIST

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You will be responsible for the development, planning, and execution of SWRMC's Shipboard Fire Safety and Response Program and Fire Response Plan.

You will ensure compliance with contractual requirements, NAVSEA Standard Items, SWRMC Local Standard Items, Navy Instructions, and OSHA laws and regulations.

You will review Ship's Force (SF), Lead Maintenance Activities, and contractor work affecting damage control and fire response systems and capabilities; resolve conflicts and disapprove actions to maintain adequate fire safety conditions.

You will conduct unplanned event/mishap investigations on shipboard fire related incidents and completes a detailed report that will be provided to the Safety Manager.

You will identify hazardous conditions created by proposed actions, disapproving actions (as necessary) to maintain fire safety, utilizing sound risk assessment technics.

You will ensure 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).

You will provide 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.

You will manage 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.

You will oversee the management of and ensuring that occupational safety and health reports and data are compiled and submitted in a timely manner.

You will conduct annual reviews of assigned Environmental, Safety, and Health (ESH) programs to include the review of standard operations procedures and instructions.

You will conduct and document 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).