Paola Echegaray Resto

• Plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts inspections of worksites, work operations, and conditions in the Construction and General Industries.

• Plans, schedules, coordinates, and conducts Process Safety Management (PSM) audits of chemical facilities.

• Records hazards and unsafe working conditions and obtains evidence of regulatory violations through the use of measurement devices, diagramming, sampling, and photographing unsafe or hazardous conditions or through other means.

• Investigates mishaps resulting in fatalities or injuries and serious incidents.

• Works to secure immediate corrective action of conditions that are of imminent danger to life or limb. Works to obtain the cooperation of various parties at inspected worksites. Investigates mishaps resulting in injuries and serious incidents.

• Conducts interviews as appropriate with witnesses, employees, employers, medical personnel, law enforcement personnel, and/or other persons in order to identify potential symptoms of occupational illness, conditions and potential causes, and to obtain and communicate other case-related information.

• Performs hazards analysis of various construction and general industry processes and equipment.

• Reviews engineering plans and/or drawings, flow charts, line layouts, and design criteria. Reviews plans and specifications for equipment and machinery to ensure the incorporation of safety features.

• Identifies violations and documents hazards, proposes citations for OSHA standards that have allegedly been violated, requests employers to voluntarily abate serious or imminently dangerous conditions to employees, and provides assistance to resolve unsafe or hazardous conditions.

• Recommends remedial safety measures related to mechanical processes, operations, equipment, and physical conditions. Determines if construction processes and equipment operations are consistent with applicable safety criteria and proposes necessary protective equipment or safety devices for machines and/or redesigns machines and shop equipment to eliminate hazards.

• Assists agency attorneys in the preparation of evidence supporting the agency's findings of safety and occupational health violations where the employer contests the inspection results.