The Health & Safety Advisor provides assistance in the multi-site management of occupational health and safety. As an ambassador of good practices, they acts as a resource person in addition to designing policies and procedures to guide internal clients in the daily management and prevention of OHS.
Responsibilities
- Act as a health and safety resource to foster a prevention-focused OHS culture across Canada's warehouses;
- Advise managers and supervisors and make them accountable for the management of health and safety on a daily basis and raise their awareness in order to reduce the risk of workplace accidents;
- Measure the effectiveness of Health and Safety programs in place and quantify the improvements;
- Assistance during stimulating training sessions and provide prevention tools to internal clients;
- Participate in the analysis of our existing prevention program and make recommendations for risk reduction;
- Complete workplace inspections and audits and write inspection reports to enable improvements;
- Participate in work safe visit and reports;
- Write occupational health and safety procedures and policies;
- Collaborate with the claims and disability advisor to investigate, bring continuous improvement in case of a work accidents.
Success Factors:
- Passionate about Health and Safety, especially prevention in an operations environment;
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in managing health and safety audit and prevention plan, ideally in a warehouse or industrial environment;
- Excellent communication, influence, and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently.
- Willingness to travel to different sites.