Generic Job Description Health and Safety Technician I Grade C

Representative Duties:

Inspects facilities, work areas and equipment. Monitors work practices and procedures for compliance with health and safety requirements. Recommends corrective action.

Records data and compiles into statistical analyses reports.

Operates and maintains equipment. Performs laboratory techniques to collect, test, package, store, transport and/or dispose of hazardous and non-hazardous materials and/or waste. Conducts test procedures on sample materials.

Serves as a source of information on health and safety rules and regulations. May prepare and present instructional materials and safety manuals.

Maintains facilities and equipment inventory.

May distribute and post health and safety regulations.

May assist in spill clean-up as needed.

Performs additional functions incidental to health and safety activities.

Family: Research Support
Job Code: 629 Date: 5/03

The job duties listed above are representative and characteristic of the duties required and the level of the work performed in the job title. The duties will vary from incumbent to incumbent in the job title.

Yale University Clerical and Technical Job Description
Job: 629 Health and Safety Technician Grade C

Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning.
Working knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of one or several narrow area of University rules and procedures.

Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a narrow range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking set questions, or from one or several given data bases; coding based on prescribed simple standards.
Uses as dictionary.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward alphabetical or chronological system.
Screens complex, technical, or specialized literature for referral.
Composes and proofreads routine formal letters or memoranda for internal or external circulation.
Regular, skilled use of more complex machines, including word processors or personal computers.
Performs one or several moderately complex laboratory or scientific procedures that are not reversible and are not expensive to duplicate: records results as necessary.

Office and Administrative Skills:
Keyboards letters, memos, and other moderately complex material.
Enters and retrieves data from semi-finished source documents on a personal computer, requiring both some interpretation of the source document and basic understanding of software parameters.
Screens and refers callers and visitors to appropriate individual.

Experience, Education and Formal Training:
Four years of related work experience, two of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or two years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.

Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes or methods.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.

Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate work unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on general matters.
Understands and evaluates what is being said and responds with complex answers that may take time to give.

Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is closely reviewed by supervisor for adequacy and accuracy at least daily.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign, and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, and procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.

Independent Judgment:
Established procedures/policies govern most work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.

Leadership Responsibility:
Occasionally provides general orientation to routine policies/procedures.

Impact and Consequence of Error:
Work affects both outside the work unit and outside the University.
Errors are somewhat difficult to recognize and correct and can cause harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals or groups.