The Sr or Lead Safety Professional's primary responsibility is to lead, train, and mentor a team of Safety Professionals in the implementation of the Company's Safety Program in support of both field and office employees. This includes evaluating safe work practices, interpreting, reviewing, and updating safety policy, procedures, and rules, supporting safety committees, facilitating incident investigation, conducting safety field observations, developing and implementing training for both Safety Pros and all our customers, and other operational needs as appropriate. May lead safety projects and initiatives across a single, local operation company or across multiple operation companies, enterprise-wide. Works to improve overall employee safety and health. Assists construction teams with evaluating safety plans and list plans.
Responsibilities
- Consults with leaders, safety professionals, supervisors, field supervisors, and others to evaluate work practices and recommend safe methods for implementation based on knowledge of Company's safety policies and procedures in addition to policies and regulations set by state and federal agencies.
- Serves as a subject matter expert to ensure all workers fully understand safety rules, procedures, and regulations.
- Participates and/or facilitates safety-related working groups to ensure all solutions to issues adhere to Electric, and Gas Utilities safety rules, procedures, and policies.
- Liaisons among teams to effectively bridge communications between employees and provides recent safety event updates and reports as needed
- Provides oversight of the effectiveness of communicating recent safety messages to the field and communicating safety concerns back to Operations and management.
- Assists in completion of incident investigations.
- Serves as a key point of contact to the business lines for the Corporate Safety Management System to ensure all incidents are entered in a timely fashion and with accuracy.
- Conducts field observations and provides feedback to crews and business lines.
- Leads safety-related projects and initiatives.
- Identifies injury trends and creates plans to address negative trends.
- Provides oversight of all positions in which driving is an essential function of the job.
- Performs other safety-related duties as assigned.
- May be assigned an emergency/storm role; this is a special assignment that is activated during storms and other emergencies when the Company needs to restore power or respond to other issues affecting customer service.
- This role may necessitate the need to work outside of normal working hours (e.g., evenings, weekends, holidays, etc.).
- The Company reserves the right to determine if this position will be assigned to work on-site, remotely, or a combination of both. The assigned work location may change. In the case of remote work, physical presence in the office/on-site may be required to engage in face-to-face interaction and coordination of work among direct reports and co-workers.
PPL Corporation
Two N Ninth St
Allentown
Pennsylvania United States
www.pplweb.com
