Lab Safety & Research Compliance Specialist

Sacbar; Palo Alto (CA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Stanford University is seeking a Research Safety Specialist to serve as an EH&S liaison to researchers in laboratories. Working as part of the Lab Safety team, you will develop and help implement and maintain research safety programs to enable researchers to achieve good safety and health performance, including laboratory chemical or industrial hygiene, risk assessment, high hazard registration, and PPE.

If you see yourself working closely with the research and teaching laboratories to provide

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in arts/science in related allied/scientific field and three years progressively responsible experience in occupational safety and health, emergency response/management, environmental science, and/or allied/scientific field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and maintain programs, systems, and procedures necessary to ensure the overall safety and health of employees and the community.
• May develop and conduct employee and student training, emergency preparedness activities, and/or assurance and accreditation programs.
• Identify, assess, and monitor workplace hazards (including but not limited to, chemical, physical, biological, and radiological) that could be present in the work area; remediate hazards, and/or recommend improvements to minimize hazard potential.
• Investigate accidents, incidents, injuries, and complaints concerning potential hazards or unsafe conditions in the workplace.
• Recommend improvements in processes, design, procedures, and operating equipment to minimize hazard potential.
• Provide technical advice and university interpretation of various government regulations and university policies; maintain working knowledge of specific government regulations.
• May act as a lead or technical expert and provide direction to less experienced personnel working on health/safety programs.

Skills

Health & safety surveys

Risk assessment

Regulatory interpretation

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in allied/scientific field

Tools

Regulatory databases

Job description

Stanford University is seeking a Research Safety Specialist to serve as an EH&S liaison to researchers in laboratories. Working as part of the Lab Safety team, you will develop and help implement and maintain research safety programs to enable researchers to achieve good safety and health performance, including laboratory chemical or industrial hygiene, risk assessment, high hazard registration, and PPE.

If you see yourself working closely with the research and teaching laboratories to provide