About the position
At UCLA Health, we go beyond careers, we create safer environments that elevate every life we touch. If you're passionate about health and safety, bring your expertise to our team. As a Senior Environmental Health & Safety Specialist at UCLA West Valley Medical Center, you will lead and support EHS programs, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices. You will oversee key areas, including Respiratory Protection, Industrial Hygiene, Injury and Illness Prevention, Workplace Violence Prevention, Fire Safety, Ergonomics, Hazardous Materials, and Radiation Safety. You will develop performance improvement strategies to enhance safety for staff, patients, and visitors, advise Medical Center leadership on regulatory requirements and safety policies, and ensure UCLA Health's safety policies remain current, effective, and well-implemented. Join us and help create a safer, healthier future.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support EHS programs, ensuring compliance with regulations and best practices.
- Oversee key areas, including Respiratory Protection, Industrial Hygiene, Injury and Illness Prevention, Workplace Violence Prevention, Fire Safety, Ergonomics, Hazardous Materials, and Radiation Safety.
- Develop performance improvement strategies to enhance safety for staff, patients, and visitors.
- Advise Medical Center leadership on regulatory requirements and safety policies.
- Ensure UCLA Health's safety policies remain current, effective, and well-implemented.
Requirements
- Extensive previous experience of Respiratory Protection, Hazardous Materials, Fire Safety and Occupational Safety Programs, including IIPP, Ergonomics.
- Bachelor's Degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, Public Health, or similar relevant fields and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Recent experience working with injury prevention and occupational safety, ergonomics, hazardous materials, or other EHS Programs.
- Knowledge of industrial hygiene, environmental health, and infection control practices.
- In-depth knowledge of how hospital operations operate safely and in compliance with all laws, regulations, accreditation standards, policies, and procedures.
- Knowledge of workplace ergonomics, proper use of personal protective equipment, and safe practices related to an airborne and bloodborne pathogen, chemical, and non-ionizing radiation exposures.
- Advanced level verbal and written communication skills.
- Advanced interpersonal skills.
- Skill in reading, understanding and interpreting National and State laws and Hospital Safety codes.
- Knowledge of Medical Center Safety policies and procedures.
- Ability to conduct and lead training and education sessions.
- Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, managers, administration and external persons and regulatory agencies.
- Ability to make effective presentations to convey information on safety policies, procedures and issues.
- General knowledge of Joint Commission standards.
- Skill in preparing concise, logical and grammatically correct memos, policies, reports and other documents.
- Experience with various software programs such as Microsoft Office Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access; databases, e-mail systems, internet, etc. and Storyline 360.
- Must be able to work special work schedules such as evening and nightshifts, work occasional overtime, and on-call rotation schedule.
- Must be able to wear appropriate safety equipment.
- Must participate in the medical monitoring program.
Nice-to-haves
- Certification in health & safety or related industry.
- Must possess a CA driver's license within 3 months of hiring and participate in the DMV Pull Notice.
- Safety-related experience working in a healthcare setting.
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