Project Safety Professional

Position Description

Provide training to construction project team for safe work practices to educate and enforce adherence to Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) programs, policies, and procedures. Identify, eliminate, and control hazardous conditions on project that may lead to injury and/or property damage.

Essential Duties & Key Responsibilities

• Educate construction project team, including Turner Trade employees, on Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) programs, policies, and procedures, and provide training on safe work practices to encourage and enforce adoption and adherence.
• Promote safe work practices and safe working conditions in accordance with company and EH&S policies, Federal, State, and Local regulations, and project owner contractual requirements.
• Build working relationships with project team and subcontractor Safety representatives.
• Contribute to development of overall project safety program.
• Enforce safety program-related policies and procedures and implement immediate corrective actions in accordance with Turner, Federal, State, and Local regulations, and owner requirements.
• Ensure proper pre-planning for activities and tasks for subcontractors and trades.
• Review subcontractor safety programs for completeness and compliance with company and EH&S policies, Federal, State, and Local regulations, and owner contractual requirements.

Pre-Construction Planning and Safety Coordination

• Hold pre-construction planning meeting with subcontractors to review site safety program and job hazard analysis for their scope of work and review risk mitigation plans.
• Gather Pre-Task Plans (PTPs) and Job Hazard Analyses (JHAs) for project subcontractors based on contractual requirements.
• Coordinate Preconstruction meetings with project team, ensure subcontractors conduct proper training as per OSHA standards, and conduct effective worker orientation program for new employees, administer and record participation.

Safety Reporting and Audits

• Create Safety reports for project, analyze metrics, and make recommendations for improvement over baseline.
• Conduct safety meetings and issue meeting minutes as directed by supervisor.
• Maintain log of subcontractors toolbox safety meetings held with their staff and provide Safety reports to supervisor as required.
• Conduct safety audits and recommend corrective action per company policy and work with supervisor to issue reports of violations and/or unsafe practices to subcontractors for immediate resolution.

Additional Responsibilities

• Evaluate training needs and make recommendations to subcontractors.
• Actively participate in reducing Project Incident Rates by meeting or exceeding established Business Unit goals and manage regulatory exposures to zero citations.
• Administer drug screening program (e.g., pre-employment, post-accident, random cause) consistent with company and owners requirements.
• Other activities, duties, and responsibilities as assigned.