WHS Officer

The Site Safety Officer will be responsible for partnering with a site operations team in a Fulfillment Center to execute company safety policies and ensure compliance to all applicable local and regional regulations. By leveraging lean principles and kaizens, this individual will lead continuous improvement initiatives to reduce conditional and ergonomic risk in our processes to ensure a safe and healthful working environment for our Associates. The Site Safety officer must demonstrate the ability to build trust and confidence with the Operations Team and influence change through providing comprehensive risk assessments and safety data analysis.

• Safety officer Responsibilities:
• - Provide guidance and oversight to ensure compliance to all applicable Amazon Safety Policies.
• - Measure sites’ performance against published requirements in safety policies. For all deficiencies, identify a plan for the site to implement and fix all identified deficiencies.
• - Deliver on-time and quality projects to Operations.
• - Analyze safety metrics and review incident weekly and monthly incident trends to discover trends to justify the allocation of appropriate resources to areas where the safety risk is highest.
• - Perform frequent site safety audits to identify all non-compliance equipment and/or processes at the site. Implement solutions to eliminate exposure to these risks and prevent injury at other FCs.
• - Audit recordkeeping practices and Global Safety Database entries to ensure compliance to global safety standards and local regulations.
• - Audit the workplace organization and Associate behaviours to ensure that training, auditing and scoring methods are accurate and consistent.
• - Manage and mentor Safety Associates in your assigned FC.

Basic qualifications

- Bachelor's degree in safety, environmental, or equivalent, or 1+ years of Microsoft Office products and applications experience

Preferred qualifications

- Experience with material handling equipment (MHE) safety standards accordance with original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and safety standards

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