Safety & Health Specialist
City of Hope
Duarte, CA
Job posting number: #7293827 (Ref:10025836)
Posted: November 15, 2024
Salary / Pay Rate: $34.64 - $53.70 / hour
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
Job Description
Join the transformative team at City of Hope, where we're changing lives and making a real difference in the fight against cancer, diabetes, and other life-threatening illnesses. City of Hope’s growing national system includes its Los Angeles campus, a network of clinical care locations across Southern California, a new cancer center in Orange County, California, and treatment facilities in Atlanta, Chicago and Phoenix. Our dedicated and compassionate employees are driven by a common mission: To deliver the cures of tomorrow to the people who need them today.
The Safety and Health Specialist will support and monitor COH safety programs, policies and procedures that meet OSHA and other applicable requirements. Evaluates the organization’s procedures, facilities, and equipment by conducting inspections to identify unsafe conditions and to implement safeguards and solutions. The Safety and Health Specialist will act as a proactive consultant to City of Hope departments to assist leaders in creating and maintaining an environment of safety for its employees and patients.
As a successful candidate, you will:
- Provide consultation to other COH departments in methods of effective safety management and accident prevention.
- Perform ergonomic evaluations for office and lab workplaces. Provide recommendations report findings. Follow up with employees to assess improvements.
- Report and suspension of activities that pose threats to workers health or safety.
- Utilize advanced data and statistical principles to develop, analyze complex systems and design reports, dashboards (including Key Performance Indicators), charts & models; provides analysis and develops questions/discussion points to aid in management decision-making.
- Support training and safety orientation for COH employees to assure greater safety awareness.
- Assist with safety rounds safety inspections. Perform job safety analysis to ensure all safety hazards have been appropriately addressed.
- Evaluate hazard levels at various COH workplaces and advise on methods of abatement.
- Conduct accident investigations to determine cause for the purpose of preventing a recurrence.
- Support Environmental safety inspections Review, evaluate, and analyze work environments.
Your qualifications should include:
- Bachelor's Degree
Experience may substitute for minimum education requirements
- Two years or more of experience in health & safety or ergonomics field preferably in hospital and research organizations
- Current CA driver's license and a good driving record for insurance purposes
Additional Information:
Job Status: Full time, exempt
Salary range $72,051- $111,675
City of Hope is an equal opportunity employer. To learn more about our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, please click here.
To learn more about our Comprehensive Benefits, please CLICK HERE.
Salary / Pay Rate Information:
Pay Rate: $34.64 - $53.70 / hour
The estimated pay scale represents the typical [salary/hourly] range City of Hope reasonably expects to pay for this position, with offers determined based on several factors which may include, but not be limited to, the candidate’s experience, expertise, skills, education, job scope, training, internal equity, geography/market, etc. This pay scale is subject to change from time to time.
City of Hope is a community of people characterized by our diversity of thought, background and approach, but tied together by our commitment to care for and cure those with cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The innovation that our diversity produces in the areas of research, treatment, philanthropy and education has made us national leaders in this fight. Our unique and diverse workforce provides us the ability to understand our patients' needs, deliver compassionate care and continue the quest for a cure for life-threatening diseases. At City of Hope, diversity and inclusion is a core value at the heart of our mission. We strive to create an inclusive workplace environment that engages all of our employees and provides them with opportunities to develop and grow, both personally and professionally. Each day brings an opportunity to strengthen our work, leverage our different perspectives and improve our patients’ experiences by learning from others. Diversity and inclusion is about much more than policies and campaigns. It is an integral part of who we are as an institution, how we operate and how we see our future.
