L&I DOSH Logging Safety and Health Compliance Investigator (CISHI3)

Washington State Department of Labor & Industries; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 78,000 - 106,000; Full time

Job summary

Washington State Department of Labor & Industries is hiring a Logging Safety and Health Compliance Investigator to ensure safety compliance in logging operations. This position includes conducting investigations, reporting on hazards, and enforcing safety regulations. Candidates must have a thorough understanding of safety rules and have significant experience in logging safety.

Benefits

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) provided

Cost of living adjustments

5% salary increase for bilinguals

Generous retirement package

Qualifications

• Valid and unrestricted driver license required.
• Five years of experience as a safety director or similar role.
• Strong understanding of regulations in the logging industry.

Responsibilities

• Conduct inspections primarily in the logging industry.
• Identify and document safety hazards.
• Write reports on compliance violations and provide technical assistance.

Skills

Safety and Health Rules Knowledge

Communication Skills

Hazard Identification

Education

5 years experience as a safety specialist

Job description

L&I DOSH Logging Safety and Health Compliance Investigator (CISHI3)

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Washington State Department of Labor & Industries provided pay range

This range is provided by Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$78,468.00/yr - $105,612.00/yr

Description

Our Mission: Keep Washington Safe and Working!

Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability

• In addition to the base salary above**
  
  

Industrial Hygienists and Safety & Health Investigators will be compensated basic salary plus 10% for each hour they are required to use personal protective equipment (excluding hard hats, boots, hearing and eye protection) to enter a hazardous worksite to consult, inspect or investigate where serious hazards are present.

PLUS

King County Premium Pay - If assigned to a permanent duty station in King County, employees will receive 5% Premium Pay calculated from their base salary.

IF BILINGUAL

If hired as bilingual (not required), after passing an assessment of your ability to write and speak fluently, employees with bilingual responsibilities receive a 5% increase in pay.

AND

All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required for this position will be provided by L&I DOSH as specified in WAC 296-800-16020 .

ALSO

L&I has been very diligent in working to remain competitive with other wages and the increased cost of living. The salary posted will receive a 3% cost of living increase effective 7/1/2025. An additional 2% cost of living increase will be effective 7/1/2026.

Are you passionate about worker safety and the logging industry? As a Logging Safety and Health Compliance Investigator (CISHI3) , you will take personal responsibility to get hazards corrected before workers get injured on logging operations and other similar jobsites. Through conducting investigations you will identify hazardous working conditions to ensure compliance with safety and health regulations. In addition, you will observe and document safety hazards, write reports of proposed violations and penalties, and provide technical assistance to employers in order for them to abate hazards. This position exists to enforce the WAC 296-54 Safety Standards for Logging Operations and to serve as a Logging Operations Specialists .

L&I's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) administers the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA) law Chapter 49.17 RCW by developing and enforcing rules that protect workers from hazardous job conditions. Our inspectors visit workplaces each year and cite businesses that violate health and safety rules.

The Compliance Industrial Safety and Health Investigator (CISHI) positions are used to maintain Federal approval of the state plan occupational safety and health program that is necessarily authorized under statute, Chapter 49.17 RCW (WISHA), and have enforcement authority over all employers in the state of Washington. This includes private and public sector, state, county, and city authorities. The approved State program at the Department of Labor and Industries must be maintained as-effective-as the federal OSHA compliance program. The work is aimed at ensuring all employers comply with workplace safety and health laws and rules to prevent worker and public fatalities, injuries and illnesses, to include compliance enforcement through legal processes and procedures.

Gain job satisfaction by knowing that because of what you do, more people will go home to their families every day. Our mission is the heart of our organization and central to how we do business. Your passion for employee safety and health translates into action when you join our mission, "Keep Washington Safe and Working", to ensure all employees are provided a safe and healthy work environment.

If you have a logging background and would like to contribute to our mission of Keeping Washington Safe and Working, then we encourage you to apply NOW!

All of this work is crucial to the safety and health of the workers of the State of Washington, and directly impacts and supports the Department’s mission, “Keep Washington Safe and Working”.

Driving is a required part of this job in order to perform the duties of this position as an L&I investigator to get from one location to another. There will be frequent daily travel with occasional overnight travel throughout the State. You will use a state-issued vehicle, motor pool vehicle, or must be able to provide personally owned vehicle (POV) when a pool or state-issued vehicle is not available. Therefore, you must have a valid unrestricted driver license without any convictions for driving under the influence or a driving offense that endangered or harmed others within the past 7 years. Individuals driving POVs for state business must show proof of personal liability insurance. Use of a POV will be compensated with the current mileage reimbursement rate.

To perform this job, you must be physically capable to walk through a variety of workplaces such as large manufacturing plants with metal stairways, catwalks, ladders, and walk through rough terrain. Must also be able to be exposed to weather (wearing appropriate weather gear) for long durations.

For this position, telework is permitted on occasion dependent upon business needs and supervisor approval. The assigned duty station for this position can be at any of our L&I offices Statewide with availability.

Learn more about DOSH here: 50 Years of DOSH

Duties

Some Of What You’ll Do

• Conduct safety and health investigations and inspections primarily in the logging industry on tower and mechanized sites, but can include other locations where logging or tree cutting work is done.
• Evaluate all hazards typically found in the logging industry, often related to heavy equipment and machinery, machine guarding, struck-by objects, guylines, tower yarders, cables, chainsaws, terrain, etc.
• Enter physical worksites unannounced to conduct compliance investigations of workplaces to determine the type and extent of suspected environmental and occupational safety hazards.
• Evaluate trench or excavation hazards for appropriate cave-in protective systems, to include soil classification testing, machine hazards and ensures specific guarding requirements are met, and all hazards to include ladders and scaffolding.
• Determine employer compliance or non-compliance with WISHA Safety and Health Standards and write reports documenting employee exposure along with proposed citations and monetary penalties as appropriate.
• Organize, write, and edit comprehensive technical inspection and investigation reports which are the basis for safety and health compliance actions.
• Ensure abatement of hazards identified during inspection.
• Work with the Attorney General’s office and local prosecutors on highly complex and difficult cases.
• Testify on behalf of the Department as primary witness for all inspections conducted, and testify as witness to any other inspections participated in.
• Perform evidence handling of highly complex cases.
• And much more!
  
  

What We Are Looking For

• A solid desire to ensure worker safety with a thorough understanding of safety and health rules and regulations and ability to identify safety related hazards in a variety of workplaces.
• Strong written, verbal, and interpersonal communications skills with ability to write comprehensive and concise reports detailing identified hazards.
• Willing and able to work with hostile clients or customers (both internal and external).
• Knowledge of Safety and Health Rules and Regulations, the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA) and the federal government's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The ability to explain to customers what their businesses must do to comply with these regulations.
• Enforcing of governmental laws, rules and regulations, and initiates enforcement actions in such a way that the public perceives as fair, objective, and reasonable.
• Perform duties safely by modeling the behavior we expect to see.
  
  

Qualifications

REQUIRED:

• A valid and unrestricted driver license
  
  

And ONE Of The Following

• Five years experience as a DOSH Compliance Industrial Safety and Health Investigator (CISHI) or equivalent experience as a Federal OSHA or other state plan journey-level safety and health specialist with at least two years of that experience in the logging industry.
  
  

OR

• Five years of full-time professional experience as an employer’s safety director, safety manager, safety officer, operations manager or foreman/supervisor in the logging industry.
  
  

OR

• Seven or more years of experience working in the logging industry.
  
  

Desired

• Bilingual preferred; persons of all languages are encouraged to apply. Bilingual jobs include a 5% salary increase for dual language responsibilities.
  
  

Research suggests that women and people of color are less likely to apply unless they are confident they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. We strongly encourage all interested individuals to apply, and allow us to evaluate your combination of knowledge, skills, and abilities demonstrated using an intentional equity lens.

Supplemental Information

Things You Need To Know

State employees who meet the qualifications will become eligible for a generous retirement package at the end of the employee’s career. Click on the “Benefits” tab to learn more.

At L&I, your voice matters. In addition, L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3.3 million workers. Take a look at this brief video and learn more about why L&I is an employer of choice.

Application process

We will contact the top candidates directly to interview for this position. Because we base the selection on information provided by you, it is in your best interest to identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities that address the mandatory and desirable qualifications described in the announcement.

Please Include The Following Documents With Your Application

• A cover letter describing specific qualifications.
• A current resume detailing applicable experience and education.
• A list of at least three professional references with current telephone numbers.
  
  

Background Check Notice

Prior to a placement in this position, a background check, including criminal history record will be conducted. Information from your background check will not necessarily preclude employment but will be considered in determining your eligibility to perform the requirements of the position.

Other Information

• For positions requiring travel, you must have a valid unrestricted driver's license and have insurance if driving a privately owned vehicle on state business.
• This position is represented by the Washington Federation of State Employees (WFSE).
• Candidates who are offered a job with L&I must possess work authorization that does not require sponsorship by the employer for a visa now or in the future.
• The Department of Labor & Industries complies with the employment eligibility verification requirements of the federal employment eligibility verification form, I-9. The selected candidate must be able to provide proof of identity and eligibility to work in the United States consistent with the requirements of that form on the first day of employment.
• Please note: L&I may use this announcement to fill multiple permanent and/or non-permanent positions.
  
  

Did You Know?

Washington is America's Top State to live, play, and work, according to U.S. News (2021). Join the L&I team and enjoy all the Evergreen State has to offer.

In addition to offering a positive balance between life and work, L&I provides one of the most competitive benefits packages in the nation. We also believe your voice matters. We value our employees and their work-life balance by encouraging flexible schedules. L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3 million workers.

Veterans Preference

Applicants wishing to claim Veterans Preference should attach to their application a copy of their DD-214 (Member 4 copy), NGB 22, or signed verification of service letter from the United States Department of Veterans Affairs. Please blackout any personally identifiable data such as Social Security numbers. For further information, contact L&I’s [e-mail] .

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Employer

L&I employees come from all walks of life. We strive to hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

We believe in the importance of recognizing the value each of us contribute to the success of the agency mission. Having a diverse workforce is this agency’s greatest resource of strength and knowledge. It is through the combination of talents and abilities that we can pursue finding effective measures to provide the best customer service. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone and we strongly mean everyone.

The State of Washington is an equal opportunity employer. Persons with a disability who need accommodation in the application process or testing process, or those needing this announcement in an alternative format, may call 360-902-5700. TTY users should first call 711 to access the Washington Relay Service.

You are welcome to include the name and pronoun you would like to be referred to in your materials and we will honor this as you interact with our award-winning diverse and inclusive organization.

For more Information

If you have any questions regarding this job posting, program, or the agency, please contact the recruiter, Lori Hensin (she/her/hers) at [e-mail] .

See all of our current L&I DOSH position openings here: Current L&I DOSH open positions

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