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Nielsen Health & Safety Manager in United States
The Safety Manager is a safety professional who ensures the compliance of health and safety laws in the workplace. The H&S Manager develops and executes health and safety plans, enforce policies, assess risks, and promote a culture of safety. The role is to create a safe work environment and minimize hazards to protect employees from occupational risks.
Scope: A Safety Manager is responsible for developing and implementing health and safety plans, enforcing policies, and evaluating practices and facilities to ensure compliance with legal guidelines. The H&S manager conducts training sessions, monitors compliance, investigates accidents, and provides recommendations for safety improvement. They also communicate safety guidelines to employees, report on l health and safety issues, and develop relevant policies to maintain a safe workplace. Their focus is on promoting occupational health and safety and minimizing risks for employees.
Responsibilities
Alerts management of emergencies, investigation of the emergencies, root cause analysis and solutions to prevent emergency recurrence.
Hold/attend safety meetings as a pillar member of various cross functional safety teams - virtually and face to face.
Remains current to applicable OSHA and other governing global programs.
Assist health and safety regulators in carrying out checks/audits.
Monitor existing and new legislation/regulations on health and safety in order to ensure that Nielsen is current and complies with requirements.
Establishing, implementing and maintaining health and safety standards, goals, and policies.
Act as the H&S regulatory resource in collaboration for Nielsen.
Provide guidance and oversight of H&S record keeping.
Ensures Nielsen is legally compliant with global health and safety legislation.
Assess, analyze and mitigate associated risk(s) with offices, warehouses, operations, field and work practices.
Develop and/or review minimum health and safety standards for compliance by Nielsen staff.
Prepare and enforce H&S policies to establish a positive culture of health and safety.
Provide compliance assurance, audits, with Nielsen and regulatory requirements regarding global environmental health and safety.
Duties include corroboration of recordable, near-miss, and critical situation(s).
Duties include record keeping of each recordable, near-miss, and critical situation(s)
Provide for H&S performance data metrics for H&S performance dashboard.
Participate in job risk assessments to ensure safe working procedures.
Drive implementation of H&S initiatives regarding contractor management on high-risk activities such as Confined Space Entry, Electrical Safety, LO/TO, Elevated Work and general construction.
Tasks:
Enforce machines and equipment are in safe working order and signed off.
Ensures the maintenance of stocked first aid.
Ensures Nielsen sites/offices are free from hazardous substances/materials or stored as per regulation.
Assure fire drills are conducted for Nielsen employees, consultants and guests.
Ensures forklifts are inspected, training is conducted, battery stations have working eyewash stations.
Ensures cradle to grave recycling of batteries - forklifts, UPS, …
Develop and execute H&S plans in the workplace according to Nielsen, compliance and legal guidelines.
Conduct training, safety meetings, audits, and inspections to ensure compliance, evaluate performance, identify corrective action and implement follow up assessments.
Inspect equipment and machinery to observe possible unsafe conditions
Investigate accidents/ incidents for root causes to support worker’s compensation claims
Recommend solutions to issues, improvement opportunities or new prevention measures
Report on health and safety awareness, issues and statistics
Provide project management H&S oversight.
Assess and identify appropriate resources and equipment necessary to support H&S objectives.
H&S contact person for contractors and Nielsen permits.
Complies with cradle to grave battery cycling.
Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Practical working knowledge of Health and Safety tools and techniques, ideally within Facilities and Project Management.
Ability to communicate H&S information, both orally and/or in writing Success as a leader working with employees, management, contractors/vendors supporting mutual safety objectives.
Proven track record of success executing high hazard prevention programs; specifically: LO/TO, electrical safety, confined space entry and elevated work/fall protection.
A proven track record managing regulatory compliance
Knowledge and understanding of relevant standards, legislation, codes of practice, guidance and operating procedures on a global scale.
Presentation skills to deliver SME advice at all levels and to deliver localized training to staff as required.
Strong organizational skills, information management proficiency and collaborative management style are needed.
Ability to effectively and efficiently handle pressure and still keep working schedules.
Attention to detail
College degree in Health and Safety field and/or a minimum of five or more years of experience in the implementation and management of H&S programs and health and safety management systems required.
Relevant/Current professional certification(s) General Industry/Construction OSHA certifications desired (CHM, CSHM, CIH, CSP, CEP, etc.)
Nielsen: Enabling your best to power a better media future. Our comprehensive benefits package (including health & wellness plans for full-time employees, 401(k) retirement coupled with a Nielsen match, a generous paid time off policy, and if eligible, a discretionary incentive/bonus) is designed to be inclusive for all employees and families, and we take pride in ensuring that employees are rewarded holistically for the role they are doing and their performance.
A reasonable estimate of salary range for a new employee to be offered this role would be between $66,000-$120,000 which would be adjusted based on each employee's geographic location. The position of each employee within a compensation range at Nielsen is dependent on several individual circumstances, such as experience, training, certifications and other business requirements/needs
Nielsen is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action-Employer, making decisions without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, marital status, protected veteran status or any other protected class.
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