safety officer

A safety officer ensures workplace safety and is typically responsible for:

• developing policies and procedures for assuring personnel safety and reducing workplace hazards
• when workplace mishaps and accidents do occur, monitoring their progress and resolution

Practices will vary from site to site, but a safety officer typically preforms these tasks:

• Prepare a site-specific safety plan and medical plan
• Identify occupational safety and health hazards.
• Monitor workers for exposure to health-hazardous conditions.
• Mitigate or eliminate unsafe conditions, operations, or hazards.
• Provide safety training to workers.
• Maintain required PPE for workers.
• Comply with government regulations, such as US OSHA standards.
• Investigate and document workplace mishaps (incidents), corrective actions taken on the scene, resulting injuries, and ways to improve safety in the future.