Avery A Alford

Occupational Health and Safety Manager; Plans, organizes, directs, and evaluates safety programs at a medical facility which includes power plants and outline buildings typically involving staff and patients more than 1500 military and civilian workers. Exercises managerial authority over staff of two Safety and Occupational Health Manager and Specialist and monitors several contracted employees. To accomplish this task, the incumbent is required to evaluate hazardous industrial and Health Care work environments for compliance with specific TJC, NFPA and OSHA standards. Development of applicable safety procedures and orientation of personnel. Maintains a safe and healthful workplace in consonance with Voluntary Protection Program practices as delineated in the ASHMS. Assuring that personnel under his supervision observe all applicable safety rules and regulations, including the use of protective clothing and equipment. Promptly evaluates and taking necessary action to correct hazards reported by personnel or otherwise identified. Ensures performance evaluations include safety performance standards and that they are evaluated against those standards. Safety Manager; Chief Principal Occupational Health and Safety advisor and technical expert to program managers, analyzing/resolving diverse, critical safety risk hazards/dangerous materials. Negotiate/coordinate complex issues pertaining to safety/occupational health. Develop and apply methods, techniques, and abatements to control or eliminate unsafe acts or conditions. Analyze mishap statistics; evaluate economic loss, severity of injuries, and surrounding environmental conditions. Develop and recommend substantive program changes or courses of managerial action as they relate to the medical facilities and/or activities. Plan/conduct comprehensive safety education activities. Ensure compliance and enforcement of various safety and occupational health subprograms, such as medical surveillance, radiation protection, fire prevention/protection, and physical safety. Budget/manage fiscal resources for support of programs. Has overall responsibility for the administration and management of the Occupational Safety Program.

Environmental Safety and Occupational Health Specialist at Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Position is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and developing the programs and processes concerned with environmental, safety and occupational functions and supporting the safety function at an airport. Work performed minimizes human injury and property losses due to harmful incidents incurred by designing of management policies, programs and practices. Provide guidance in environmental health program principles and practices, concepts, regulations, using analytical methods and techniques to perform multiple and varying assignments; duties include Providing coordination of the safety program with airport management, spoke airports, the Office of Security Operations, and other program areas by coordinating/facilitating delivery of services as required. Providing ongoing services to managers, assigned organizations, and employees in their assigned program areas to include initiating, tracking and following up on cases and studies to ensure timely completion and regulatory compliance. Providing advice and guidance to professionals, managers, and employees sufficient to resolve recurring problems or those requiring adaptation of past precedents through the sharing of information or recommending alternative and appropriate approaches, including the review of policies and precedents with limited guidance.

Undertaking extensive research and analysis and coordinating with more senior specialists and/or supervisors as necessary to ensure that the most recent guidance is applied when making technical decisions or advising managers, staff, and employees. Recommending unprecedented interpretations of guidance consistent with mission requirements and compliance with underlying statutes and applying considerable discretion in advocating specific courses of action. Identifying and proposing technically sound and administratively compliant solutions to a range of complex but recurring safety hazards and risks requiring considerable judgment to ensure that recommendations and approaches best meet TSA operational needs. Designing and conducting studies where the issues under review are complex and require recommending program changes or improvements to systems and processes. Developing and providing instruction and training content for airport employees and supervisors to reduce or eliminate potential accident-related losses. Providing training and guidance on the handling, transportation, and maintenance of hazardous materials. Serving as a troubleshooter regarding causes for accidents or losses and implementing adjustments in processes to prevent future incidents. Conduct routine environmental & safety inspections. Providing guidance to more junior analysts as appropriate to accomplish ongoing work.

Safety Manager; Chief Principal Occupational Health and Safety program director and technical expert., Enterprise scope includes Safety director, Life Safety, Safety Education/Training and Emergency Preparedness, Environmental management, hazardous material, respiratory protection program and facility maintenance compliance. Scope of area includes: 32 branch clinics, 3 Treatment Centers, and Veterinary care facilities. Pensacola Naval Regional Hospital is about 365,000 sq ft. I develop, Plan, organize and conduct a 24-hour comprehensive safety activity, evaluates the effectiveness of occupational health and safety requirements in the work environment, assesses the degree of compliance with applicable regulations and standards, and develops changes and modifications to a broad range of work processes, equipment operations, and protective devices to minimize injuries to patients and employees and damage to command property. Special assistant to the Commanding Officer works administratively and is independently responsible for setting program priorities and ensuring fulfillment of courses of action to achieve goals. Completed work is considered technically authoritative and accepted without notable change. The supervisor is advised of controversial issues or other matters having significant program implications. Review is concentrated on the accomplishment of exceptionally demanding program objectives. Serves as the principal safety and occupational health member of the Performance Improvement and Review Program responsible for the Safety Core Function, justifies operating expenditures including staffing requirements, interprets new safety and occupational health legislation, and recommends the adoption or implementation of specific policies and procedures.

Duties: Safety Manager and deputy Emergency Manager has full responsibility for planning, developing, directing, controlling, implementing, evaluating, and administering a comprehensive safety, environmental and occupational health program including Emergency Management and Green Environmental Management System for the Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center employees, patients, contractors, vendors, and visitors. The Philadelphia Veteran Affairs Medical Center provides health care for more than 370,000 veterans living in America's fifth largest metropolitan area and surrounding seven counties in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Community Based Outpatient Clinics are in Horsham, Pennsylvania and Gloucester, Cape May and Fort Dix, New Jersey. Manage and supervise the safety section as follows: Responsible for the Safety Program Management, an area of the PVAMC which involves a wide variety of high-risk operations, facilities, and environmental conditions. Provide leadership, guidance, and direction for day-to-day and long-range planning for the section, consisting of four employees. Conduct safety and fire protection surveys at the medical center, assisted living, boarding, community care and nursing home, and community-based outreach clinics. Recommend measures to eliminate or control hazardous practices and conditions, which may cause mishap. Prepare supplemental written safety procedures for application by local personnel. Maintain accountability for developing, implementing, managing, and monitoring a comprehensive Safety program as defined by agency policy, which meets the Safety and Life Safety Requirements of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Joint Commission, NFPA, OSHA and Local directives. Perform Supervisory responsibilities that include planning, coordinating, scheduling, and reviewing work. Perform periodic on-site surveys for assigned organizations. Inspect construction projects to determine compliance with applicable occupational safety standards. Review and evaluate Interim Life Safety Measures (ILSM) when the protection/safety is affected by construction. Review aggregate data to develop risk assessment. Review and monitor all service safety plans to ensure compliance with JC requirements and hospital policy. Conduct and/or participate in annual employee safety training to ensure awareness of pertinent safety information. Coach and mentor section personnel based upon their annual performance objectives.

Duties, Accomplishments and Related Skills: Safety and Occupational health Specialist positions have involved administration, or operation of a safety and occupational health program or performance of administrative work concerned with safety and occupational health activities and includes the development, implementation, and evaluation of related program functions. Assist in conducting a Risk Management Survey on the emergency hazards associated in a healthcare environment. Obtains statements from witnesses, photographs accident scene Provide facilitation and project management support to the two primary BAMC Committees that concern themselves with emergency preparedness issues: the EMS Committee and the Disaster Committee, and assist with development of annual goals and objectives for committees Inspect the Hospital and areas related to Healthcare Document all discrepancies and provide recommended corrective actions Identify Army Regulations, SOPs, local standards, and practices to eliminate injuries to personnel and damage to equipment Inspect Medical/Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO), facilities, hazardous waste sites, and identify the proper handling, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste material according to OSHA, AR, and Unit SOPs. Demonstrated knowledge of healthcare safety through, planning, organizing and coordinating a Healthcare management program. Demonstrates ability to identify hazards and recommend risk control measures for various Healthcare emergency situations. Demonstrated knowledge of organization and mission of Healthcare units operating in the field. Providing input to agency policy, oversight and technical consultation on environmental, safety and health matters. Performs audits, inspections, develops and implements various safety related training materials for use hospital-wide. Determines compliance with occupational safety regulations, and identifies potential safety hazards. Normal to high safety risks are encountered in assigned areas. Evaluates a variety of unconventional safety problems, ensures correct safety and protective equipment is in use, and determines risk assessment of the hazardous processes. Determines and recommends methods and procedures for controlling or eliminating hazards. Documents and reviews inspection findings, and prepares formal reports for dissemination. Advises supervisors, and/or collateral duty safety officers on appropriate measures to eliminate or control hazardous operating procedures. Conducts follow-ups inspection. Plans formal investigations of reportable and non-reportable accidents.