Safety Specialist

1 week ago

Hazel Crest, Illinois, United States Advocate Health Full time

About the Role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Safety Consultant to join our team at Advocate Health. As a key member of our safety team, you will be responsible for ensuring regulatory compliance and promoting a safe environment for our patients, visitors, and staff.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Act as the principal safety and regulatory standards representative to leaders, visitors, team members, and contractors at assigned locations.
  • Escorts regulatory agency personnel during compliance inspections and serves as chair of the Physical Environment (PE)/Environment of Care (EC) Committee and associated sub-committees.
  • Responsible for meeting documentation, such as scheduling, agendas, minutes, follow-up, and others as needed.
  • Ensures regulatory compliance and performs audits of safety and regulatory activities, including Physical Environment Management System/Environment of Care Program.
  • Provides team member and contractor safety education, reviews and evaluates safety data to identify trends, deficiencies, and corrective actions.
  • Develops and evaluates plans for safety, security, hazardous materials and waste, medical equipment, life/fire safety, utilities, emergency preparedness, and other related areas.
  • Leads life safety initiatives, including above ceiling permitting process, hot work permitting process, ILSM documentation, and process.
  • Provides construction-related education and compliance oversight.
  • Acts as the hospital safety/regulatory primary point of contact and liaison with federal, state, county, and local fire department officials.
  • Responsible for compliance with regulatory requirements of agencies such as Department of Public Health, DNV, Joint Commission, CMS, EPA, OSHA, and local authorities having jurisdiction.
  • Develops solutions to maintain compliance and serves as primary source of safety technical knowledge and regulatory consultant to related committees, hospital, and department leaders.
  • Directs the development, implementation, and evaluation of corrective action plans for deficiencies and trends identified in PE/EC programs.
  • Provides ongoing monitoring of the physical environment through regularly scheduled rounding and inspections to ensure a safe environment.
  • Acts as subject matter expert in electronic rounding platform, including scheduling, trending, and analysis of data, communication with department leaders, and reporting to PE/EC Committees and Quality Committees.
  • Supports Quality initiatives by developing reports, analyses, and actions required for the Physical Environment.
  • Coordinates the development of and presentation to site PE/EC Committees.
  • Ensures reports are prepared by respective leaders for Safety, Security, Hazardous Materials and Waste, Medical Equipment, Utilities, Fire/Life Safety, and Emergency Management.
  • Develops and provides education for the Physical Environment, including annual safety training for all team members, new team member orientation/training, facilities and construction-related training, and contractor's annual orientation.

Requirements:

  • Health Care Facility Manager (CHFM) certification issued by the American Hospital Association (AHA), OR Safety Professional (CSP) certification issued by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP), OR Health Care Environmental Manager (HEM) certification issued by the ECRI Institute's Center for Healthcare Environmental Management (CHEM).

Education:

  • Bachelor's Degree in Building & Construction, Engineering, Health Care Administration, Safety, Facilities Maintenance, Regulatory Science, or related field.

Experience:

  • Typically requires 5 years of experience in Facilities or related field.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

  • Critical thinking and independent decision making.
  • Clear and concise communications.
  • Ability to operate computer and computer software programs.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions:

  • Must be able to sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, reach above shoulders, and twist frequently throughout the workday.
  • Must be able to lift up to 10 lbs. regularly and up to 50 lbs. occasionally.
  • May be exposed to mechanical, electrical, chemical, and radiation hazards as well as blood and body fluids; therefore, personal protective equipment must be worn as necessary.
  • Position requires occasional travel; therefore, may be exposed to road and weather hazards.
  • Must have functional speech, vision, smell, touch, and hearing.
  • Must be physically able to wear and function in a Level C protective suit for training, simulation, and actual responses to decontamination needs.
  • Operates all equipment necessary to perform the job.

This job description indicates the general nature and level of work expected of the incumbent. It is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities required of the incumbent. Incumbent may be required to perform other related duties.

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