UPMC is looking for a qualified Safety Specialist to join our team and help ensure a safe, compliant environment for employees and patients. In this role, you’ll lead OSHA training, conduct hazard surveillance, perform Life Safety inspections, manage fire drills, and oversee industrial hygiene activities like air quality sampling. You’ll also respond to emergencies, coordinate waste disposal, and support wastewater sampling and monitoring. If you’re passionate about safety and compliance, have experience in regulatory reporting, and want to make a difference, we invite you to apply today and be part of our team!

Responsibilities:

Coordinate pickup with facility’s selected removal vendor. Identify any waste handling problems and generate recommendations on remediation. Conduct employee training sessions for users, generators and handles as needed. Coordinate wastewater sampling and manage wastewater discharge and monitoring reports. Maintain understanding and knowledge base to assist in development of required programs, policies and procedures, reports and preparation for regulatory agency reviews, including employee training. Evaluate complaints through interaction with affected staff and others. Complete IAQ sampling and interpret results. Analyze potential causative factors and develop testing methods to evaluate. Develop written report on results and recommendations for corrective measures. Coordinate approved corrective measures with hospital personnel as necessary. Evaluate regulatory and other requirements for IH sampling. Identify locations/department within facilities requiring initial, follow-up, routine and adhoc monitoring. Select appropriate sampling methodology and design studies for efficacious sampling. Coordinate sample collection with involved departments/individuals. Collect samples and coordinate sample analysis. Conduct initial evaluation of sampling results and develop written reports on all sampling. Assist in procurement of MSDS for all inventoried materials. Designate hazardous waste collection, aggregation and storage procedures in accordance with applicable regulations. Coordinate waste removal with generator departments. Maintain required manifests. Maintain computerized hazardous waste tracking system. Respond to emergency situations as needed on a routine and on-call basis (Fire response, Hazardous Material spill – management and coordination of response, Flood. Internal/External disasters, Workplace injuries). Complete safety inspections of facilities in accord with all applicable regulations. Conduct initial orientation and on-going education for employees and fire response team members. Evaluate, update and re-draft fire response plans. Conduct required safety drills. Maintain basic familiarity with NFPA Life Safety Code and the BOCA code. Coordinate completion of fire pump tests. Assist Environmental Support Services department as needed in completion for fire suppression, detection and annunciation system testing.