Description
Supervises the safety and health program to ensure compliance with established policies and OSHA regulations. Coordinates inspections and tours of facilities to detect existing or potential accident, fire, and health hazards and recommends corrective or preventive actions. Supervises or conducts employee training programs in accident and fire prevention and protection, and other employee safety programs. Investigates accidents and injuries. Prepares legally required reports and any regular or special reports for use in hearings, lawsuits, and insurance investigations. May serve as liaison with local fire departments, area hospitals, and other outside agencies regarding employee safety and health programs. This is the first level of full supervision. Employees in this classification supervise three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees may spend time performing many of the same duties as subordinate employees. Generally, the subordinate group performs a single task or multiple, but closely related tasks. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.