Environmental Health and Safety Manager

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• Ensuring all associates are in compliance with local, state and federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rules.
• Routinely inspecting and/or tour Company facilities to detect existing or potential health and safety hazards, and recommends corrective or preventive measures where indicated; performs periodic internal safety audits and assures that the results of these reviews are made available to the Director of Safety.
• Performing periodic safety, environmental, and other regulatory audits; prepares reports of findings with recommendations for corrective action.
• Assess and recommend controls to environmental aspects and impacts.
• Organize, file, and maintain large amounts of compliance related documentation and records.
• Participate on the Airgas AERO Team (responding to emergency situations as a HazMat Technician); must be certified or able to get a certification to wear Level "A" chemical suit and Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus (SCBA).
• Able to evaluate unsafe situations, conditions and behaviors of others during ride-a-longs, safety observations and site visits
• Document and track observations and other tasks and activities to completion
• Travels from site to site within assigned area (or others as needed) to conduct facility environmental and safety audits including but not limited to noise level testing, toxic fumes, OSHA and NFPA regulations and other safety hazards and violations.
• Reports findings and suggests corrections for any safety violations found.
• Monitors and assigns corrective actions for good catches and observations in assigned area.
• Investigates incidents for root cause(s) and propose preventive/corrective measures.
• Demonstrates proper use of safety equipment.
• Review and confirm/update of all licenses and permit information.
• Review training files for all associates.
• Maintain the Intelex (software reporting/tracking system) data base for training, incident and injury reporting, testing, auditing and inspections.
• Assist and review training and mentoring of all new hires on Airgas safety policies and procedures as well as any government required regulations.
• Other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

• Be committed to safety and team excellence.
• Be personable, professional, responsive, and bring value to the customer's business.
• Have at least an Associate's degree (A. A.) or equivalent from two-year College or technical school with emphasis on Safety or at least 3 years of related work experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Be successful at building and maintaining strong customer service relationships.
• Exercise strong communication skills both verbal and written.
• Be willing to travel throughout their assigned areas with occasional overnight travel
• Be able to work individually and in team environments.
• Ability to learn and adapt to new technologies and equipment.
• Strong skills in Microsoft Office Suite (or Google), including PowerPoint, Word, and Excel.
• Ability to create high-quality presentations and content creation.

About Airgas

Airgas, an Air Liquide company, is a leading U.S. supplier of industrial, medical and specialty gases, as well as hardgoods and related products; one of the largest U.S. suppliers of safety products.

Through the passion and diversity of its 18,000 associates, Airgas fosters a culture of safety, customer success, sustainability and innovation. Airgas associates are empowered to share ideas, take initiative and make decisions.

Airgas is a subsidiary of Air Liquide, a world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health. Air Liquide is present in 78 countries with approximately 64,500 associates globally.

Join us for a stimulating experience: you'll find a world of learning and development opportunities where inventiveness is at the heart of what we do, in an open, collaborative and respectful environment.

Airgas offers a full benefits package includes:
http://www.airgas.com/company/careers/employee-benefits

Airgas will consider for employment qualified Applicants with Criminal Histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the FCIHO

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We care about and support our Airgas Families. This is evident not only through our competitive compensation but also through a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, and vision plans, vacation, sick time, floating holidays, and paid holidays for full-time employees.

We provide a progressive parental leave package for our eligible Airgas parents, offering generous paid time off for the birth or placement of children, including 14 weeks of paid child birth benefit for birth mothers on leave, as well as paid parental leave benefits for other associates.

Additionally, we offer our employees a 401k plan with company matching funds, tuition reimbursement, discounted college tuition for employees' dependents, and an Airgas Scholarship Program for dependent children.

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Your differences enhance our performance

At Airgas, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace that embraces the diversity of our employees, our customers, patients, community stakeholders and cultures across the world.

We welcome and consider applications from all qualified applicants, regardless of their race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, disability or any other protected characteristic. We strongly believe a diverse organization opens up opportunities for people to express their talent, both individually and collectively and it helps foster our ability to innovate by living our fundamentals, acting for our success and creating an engaging environment in a changing world.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Information

We are an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

Please click here to view the EEO Know Your Rights poster and here to view the Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination poster. Airgas, an Air Liquide Company invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company's written Affirmative Action Plan or Policy Statement. This plan or policy statement is available for inspection upon request.

Airgas, an Air Liquide Company and its group of companies does not discriminate against qualified applicants with disabilities and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations to the known disabilities of such individuals so as to ensure equal access to benefits and privileges of employment. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact us by email at us-accommodationrequest@airgas.com.

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