Senior Occupational Health & Safety

at  Port of Vancouver

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The Vancouver Fraser Port Authority is responsible for the stewardship of the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s largest and most diversified port. Our mandate as a Canada Port Authority, as set out by the Canada Marine Act, is to enable Canada’s trade objectives, ensuring goods are moved safely and responsibly through the Port of Vancouver. That means providing infrastructure and ensuring the safe and efficient movement of marine traffic and cargo within the port. It also means we carry out reviews of proposed activities and developments on federal port lands and waters to determine whether a project can go ahead without impacts to the environment and community that cannot be mitigated.
We are committed to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We believe in creating a workplace that reflects the richness of our community and empowers all employees to reach their full potential.
The Senior Occupational Health & Safety (OHS) Coordinator is a member of and works closely with the Health & Safety team to meet the VFPA’s occupational health and safety commitment, objectives and responsibilities. The role supports the development and maintenance of the Occupational Health and Safety Program, Hazard Prevention Program and supports the Contractor Safety Management Program and incident management for the Maintenance & Canada Place Facilities (M&CPF) department. The position provides support and advice to the M&CPF department in relation to health and safety requirements and best practice. The Senior Coordinator works closely with the Safety & Emergency Management team to ensure compliance with broader corporate initiatives and programming.
The short-term focus will be on gap analysis with the HS program relative to the M&CPF department, understanding the challenges the teams face in their working environment, understanding the organizational HS program and objectives and developing and maintaining working relationships with the M&CPF department.

Occupational Health and Safety Program Management

• Work closely with health and safety subject matter experts to ensure appropriate compliance with the overall safety program and regulatory requirements by supporting implementation of safety initiatives
• Support the coordination of the hazard prevention program, risk assessments, risk mitigation activities, training and education program enhancements and related updates
• Support the annual departmental safety plans, with a focus on leading indicator activities, meeting facilitation and activity tracking
• Maintains and administers the hazard prevention program for M&CPF, including review on a regularly scheduled cycle for compliance
• Provide consultation or advice on all elements of the safety program such as ergonomics, working at heights, confined space, lockout tagout, working alone, hazardous materials such as asbestos etc., including maintenance of the program documents, safe work procedures and guidelines
• Conducts field reviews of work methods of the M&CPF team to ensure adherence to established safety standards

Contractor Safety Management Coordination

• Support the coordination of the contractor safety management program to ensure contractor compliance on behalf of the M&CPF department
• Work with third-party consultants supporting audits and safety inspections, as required

Safety Management Systems

• Act as a system administrator in administering the safety management technology system to track reporting, incident management and action tracking of safety reporting
• Provide training and lead the continuous improvement of safety management systems to the M&CPF department

Incident Management

• Coordinate and conduct accident and incident investigations, including ensuring appropriate documentation is accurately completed, submitted and action items are implemented in a timely manner
• Identify workable solutions or corrective actions to try and prevent future incident occurrences and work with leaders to ensure identified actions are tracked to completion
• Coordinate and maintain annual reporting metrics and requirements for the OH&S program

Emergency Management

• Assist with planning and coordination of regular M&CPF and related stakeholder emergency drills and exercises