Back to jobsDesign and implement programs to enhance EHS protocols at assigned Elite Comfort Solutions locations, including behavioral safety and regulatory compliance programs, to help the company lower its total cost of risk and continuously improve performance.
Advise local plant leadership on improving EHS practices, workplace safety, and the safety culture.
Coordinate with leadership, locally and across the business, on EHS related capital budget items, including helping to create a business case for their acquisition.
Develop ergonomic protocols for Elite Comfort Solutions locations.
Develop and oversee EHS training for employees.
Develop meeting agenda and conduct regular EHS meetings with local managers, supervisors, and employees.
Oversee the incident/accident investigation process, including identifying the root cause, and ensure that local managers, supervisors, and employees are adequately trained to conduct investigations and develop and implement appropriate corrective actions.
Record applicable information in our designated electronic systems.
Ensure Safety Alerts are prepared and promptly shared with all Elite Comfort Solutions locations in the Domestic Bedding Group.
Establish a local safety self-audit program, train appropriate personnel to audit, and perform periodic reviews to ensure compliance.
Keep track of safety worker orders for the Branch and track completion and communicate aging items to the appropriate leadership.
Regularly review workers' compensation and other local claims to determine accident trends and root causes and develop accident prevention initiatives based on these analyses.
Interpret and answer basic EHS, EPA, OSHA, and other regulatory compliance questions.
Be the internal "go-to" person for all questions related to EHS and maintain the knowledge required to be a subject matter expert in EHS management; this includes keeping abreast of changes in laws and regulations affecting Elite Comfort Solutions operations.
Collaborate with the management, supervisors, and other operations personnel to identify, quantify, and analyze claims data and causal information so that future claims can be reduced, in terms of both frequency and severity, primarily through appropriate operational procedures, safeguards, and behavior, and through loss prevention initiatives.
Regularly participate in "open items" meetings with internal and external colleagues associated with the risk management and insurance program to ensure that performance deadlines are being achieved and that initiatives are moving forward as desired
