Safety & Health Consultant

Salary Range: $65,000 - $75,000

This position focuses on South Florida, specifically the Miami region.

Position Summary:

This position plays a key role in supporting small employers across Florida by promoting safe and healthy workplace practices. The position requires a high level of safety and health technical expertise that will provide expert-level consultation, inspection, and compliance assessment aimed at identifying and correcting workplace hazards in accordance with Federal OSHA regulations. The incumbent will evaluate employers’ safety and health management systems and develop customized recommendations to improve or implement effective programs that reduce workplace injuries, illnesses, and fatalities. In this role, the consultant delivers both formal and informal occupational safety training and educational outreach to employers, employees, and stakeholders throughout the state, while working independently with minimal supervision within an assigned geographic area. Frequent travel, including overnight stays, to worksites throughout the state is required in support of the Safety Florida Consultation Program and as such a valid driver’s license is essential. 

• Schedules, prepares, travels, and provides on-site consultation services and/or inspections of small businesses with regard to safety and health regulations.
• Interviews employees and management to formulate and appraise workplace safety and health management systems. Provides formal and informal instructions to reduce injury/illness rates, workers’ compensation premiums and the recurrence of near miss incidents and accidents.
• Coaches and instructs employers in accident analyses to determine injury/illness trends; advocates, assists and guides employers to be self reliant and self sufficient in all aspects relating to occupational safety and health.
• Conducts full-shift employee monitoring and collects samples to determine the workplace exposures of employees to toxic chemical and physical agents.
• Interprets/analyzes technical data and calculations obtained from conducting site visits.
• Guides employers in developing and implementing a facility-specific safety and health management system; assists in development of an “action plan” to correct hazards identified in the workplace.
• Prepares formal reports; ensures accurate and timely data entry and documentation of reports in accordance with occupational safety and health regulations and federal guidelines.
• Works with line supervisors to incorporate safety procedures into their electrical, mechanical and facilities management plans, procedures.
• Develops techniques for safety directors to better train their employees and mangers at the facilities.
• Develops and implements statewide training and education programs for small businesses throughout the State of Florida.
• Creates training materials, and makes both formal and informal presentations to employers as well as students attending classes sponsored by USF Training Institute Education Center. Researches web to provide most current safety and health technology; explores and investigates economically feasible engineering and administrative industrial hygiene, safety controls, and personal protective equipment for employer implementation.
• Participates on various safety and health local and state committees, and safety and health fair planning committees.
• Completes administrative functions related to the functions of the position.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:
This position requires a Bachelor’s degree in a Physical science, Engineering or related field, with one year experience in a safety and health consultation or inspection-related position. Relevant experience in safety and health consultation and/or inspections, and/or industrial hygiene may substitute on a year for year basis for the required degree.

Preferred Qualifications:

A Master’s degree in Industrial Hygiene and certification as a Certified Industrial Hygienist
(CIH) is preferred

Special Working Conditions
This position frequently requires climbing, lifting moderately heavy items, such as storage containers. On an inspection, incumbent is required to wear a hard hat, gloves, safety glasses, hearing protection, hard toe shoes. Uses measuring instruments to determine air quality and noise levels, and equipment to evaluate electrical, trenching, and machine-guarding hazards.

FLSB1310 Equivalency:
4 years of directly relevant experience may be substituted for bachelor's degree.
6 years of directly relevant experience may be substituted for master's degree.