Generic Job Description Health and Safety Technician II Grade D
Representative Duties:
Plans, organizes, schedules and conducts inspections of facilities, work areas and equipment. Monitors site conditions, practices, and procedures for compliance with health and safety requirements. Selects and implements corrective action and follows-up to ensure proper action has been taken.
Records data and compiles it into statistical analyses and reports.
Operates, maintains, certifies, inspects, calibrates and oversees installation of safety equipment. Oversees the collection, packaging, testing, storing, transporting and/or disposal of hazardous and non-hazardous materials and/or waste. Performs laboratory techniques on sample materials.
Performs routine biological, chemical and radiation surveys/sampling for exposure potential and regulatory compliance. Prepares and submits detailed reports to department managers for corrective action to be taken or maintenance to be performed. Follows-up to ensure proper action has been taken.
May assist in the mitigation of hazardous material incidents.
Oversees and instructs support staff.
Attends and participates in professional and committee meetings related to health and safety issues. Serves as a principal source of information on health and safety issues. Assists with the development and administration of programs, reports, and training and employee seminars.
Conducts research in the planning, development and organization of employee informational seminars. Presents portions of safety seminars.
Orders material and supplies.
Performs additional functions incidental to health and safety activities.
Family: Research Support
Job Code: 630 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: 630 Health and Safety Technician II Grade D
Required Knowledge:
Specialized college-level coursework; detailed but narrow knowledge in one or several work-related areas; substantial knowledge of broader field of learning.
Limited acquaintance with business, accounting or commercial procedures.
Working knowledge of University organizational policies and procedures generally; detailed knowledge of one or several narrow areas of University rules and procedures.
Required Skills:
Extracts and compiles a range of data from written sources, from individuals by asking questions, or from one or several given databases, limited interpretation of data.
Extensive routine and non-routine use of a major library catalogue or reference database.
Files already labeled material using a straightforward, alphabetical or chronological filing system.
Apply, explain or substantively revise complex, technical or specialized literature.
Understands more complicated written instructions, memoranda, and policy statements.
Composes, proofreads or edits formal general correspondence, memoranda, short reports, or grant applications for internal or external circulation.
Regular skilled use of complex machines; responsibility for troubleshooting and maintenance necessary to ensure consistent operation at a high quality level; and/or sophisticated manipulation of database.
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 documents and a basic understanding of software parameters.
Screens and refers callers and visitors to appropriate individual.
Experience, Education, and Formal Training:
Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Complexity and Organization:
Wide variety of complicated job tasks requiring coordinating numerous processes/methods.
Occasionally coordinates or organizes the work of others.
Interpersonal Relations:
Ongoing involvement outside immediate unit.
Offers or obtains specialized information and provides assistance on complex matters.
Officially represents someone, whether a supervisor, faculty member, or the University.
Supervisory Guidelines:
Work is subject to general review on an occasional basis.
Supervisor and incumbent plan, assign and schedule work jointly.
Instruction provided only in new situations, methods, procedures that are not clearly related to existing tasks and duties.
Independent Judgment
Established procedures/policies govern some work situations.
Regular exercise of independent judgment or initiative.
Problems solved by using established procedures.
Leadership Responsibility
Often provides work guidance, instruction or orientation of others.
Sometimes distributes and monitors work.
Impact and Consequence of Error
Work has significant impact both on more than one department and outside the University.
Errors are not always recognizable and cannot be corrected and can cause considerable harm or financial loss to individuals, departments, and the University, or to other individuals and groups.
Working Conditions
Ongoing possibility of safety risks.
Regular, multiple or conflicting demands, deadlines, emergencies, or time pressures.
Regular sustained concentration.
Considerable physical effort or a high degree of fine finger or hand dexterity.
Example 1
Health and Safety Technician II (630)
Salary: D
General Purpose:
Provide technical support to the Environmental Services Section of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety primarily in the area of hazardous (chemical), biomedical and radioactive waste management, with the primary responsibility for overseeing and coordinating the
biomedical waste program. Assistance with environmental compliance programs will occasionally be necessary.
Essential Duties of the position:
Oversee and coordinate biomedical waste program. Identify and safely handle classes of biomedical waste. Collect and transport biomedical waste from generators to a storage area or treatment location. Train University personnel on proper packaging and documentation. Ensure proper packaging and arrange for waste disposal via a commercial vendor; includes chemotherapy and pathology-related waste.
Maintain waste paperwork and reporting. Autoclave and dispose of non-chemotherapy and pathology-related waste using onsite equipment. Follow OEHS standard operating procedures.
Schedule timely waste pick-ups and treatment. Ensure proper temperature and pressure performance of autoclave unit on a weekly basis. Ensure timely preventative maintenance for both autoclave and shredder units. With supervisor, evaluate handling of biomedical waste and operation of autoclave/shredder unit ensuring that proper technique and personal protective equipment is used.
Coordinate and provide oversight of other ESS technicians and contractor employees. Pick-up and process hazardous waste and radioactive waste from University laboratories and other University work areas according to standard operating procedures and all applicable local, state and federal requirements. Work with University lab community to set-up and maintain RCRA satellite accumulation areas. Provide oversight of RCRA 90-day storage areas.
Interact with laboratory personnel regarding the compliant collection and storage of hazardous waste. Provide specialized information to laboratory staff when necessary.
Assist other EHS personnel with packaging and transportation of waste from generation point to storage areas.
Perform radiation surveys and conduct inspection of OEHS-ESS radioactive waste storage facilities.
Develop awareness of principles regarding the decay and survey of radioactive materials. Survey decayed waste and dispose. Prepare and maintain documentation.
Prepare radioactive waste packages and documentation for off-site disposal.
Deliver supplies to laboratories and other areas as required.
Assist with environmental compliance programs and perform other functions as needed and identified by the section manager or supervisor in support of other OEHS programs.
Education and Experience:
Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level and a high school level education, or four years of related work experience and an Associate’s degree, or little or no work experience and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field, or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Knowledge of chemistry, biology and physics to perform necessary tasks and recognize potentially dangerous situations.
Preferred: At least one-year experience segregating and packaging for disposal of typical laboratory waste. Experience with packaging, transporting and managing biological waste program. 24-hour OSHA certification. Department of Transportation HM-181 training. Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with hazardous materials endorsement.
Skills and Abilities:
Ability to work well with others. Responsive to conflicting demands, deadlines or emergencies including spill response.
Ability to recognize classes of chemicals which can become unstable during extended storage.
Maintain CT driver’s license. Obtain a CT commercial driver’s license with HAZMAT. Endorsement in the first 90 days of employment.
Pass required physical examination including pre-and post-employment drug/alcohol screenings.
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds and move 600 pound drum with drum cart.
Ability to wear safety equipment including respirators, safety shoes, goggles, gloves and fully encapsulating protective suit.
Ability to carry harness-mounted air tanks; wear and use self-contained breathing apparatus.
Ability to use word processing and spreadsheet software.
During working hours, participate as a member of the OEHS on-call emergency response team.
Possess/complete and maintain HAZWOPER certification.
Work in a variety of physical environments including weather extremes, potential confined spaces, elevated locations, etc.
Example 2
Health and Safety Technician II (630)
Salary: D
General Purpose:
Provide technical support to the Environmental Services Section of the Office of Environmental Health and Safety in the area of radioactive, chemical hazardous and biomedical waste management and environmental compliance.
Essential Duties of the position:
Pick-up and process hazardous waste from University laboratories and other University work areas according to standard operating procedures.
Delivery of supplies to laboratories and other areas as required.
Provided specialized information to laboratory staff.
Provide all applicable documentation to support biomedical, chemical and radioactive waste inspection.
Interact with laboratory personnel on the proper disposal of radioactive, chemical, and biomedical waste to assure regulatory compliance.
Packaging and transportation of waste in compliance with regulations.
Perform surveys and inspections of OEHS-ESSS facilities.
Survey waste with appropriate detection instruments to assist in the qualification of radioactivity or assure decay. Perform calculations and document findings.
Evaluate the packaging and documentation of biomedical, radioactive and hazardous waste offered for removal to University waste vendors.
Provide on-site supervision of contracted waste management vendors.
Prepare waste packages and documentation for off-site disposal.
Create and maintain documents and databases in support of various programs.
Establish and follow procedures for waste handling and storage.
Perform laboratory characterization of unknown materials.
Provide direction to other technicians in waste management tasks.
Perform other functions as needed and identified by the section manager or supervisor in support of other OEHS programs.
Experience and Training:
Six years of related work experience, four of them in the same job family at the next lower level, and a high-school level education; or four years of related work experience and an Associate’s degree; or little or no work experience and a Bachelor’s degree in a related field; or an equivalent combination of experience and education.
Knowledge of physics, chemistry, and biology to perform necessary tasks and recognize potentially dangerous situations.
CT driver’s license. Obtain a CT commercial driver’s license with HAZMAT Endorsement in the first 90 days of employment.
Preferred: Radioactive, Chemical and Biomedical Waste Management experience.
Preferred: BS in Chemistry, Biology, Health Physics, or Environmental Sciences.
Skills and Abilities:
Ability to work well with others.
Responsive to conflicting demands, deadlines or emergencies including spill response.
Lift up to 50 lbs. and move 600-lb. drum with drum cart.
Ability to wear negative pressure cartridge type respirators. Able to wear safety equipment including respirators, safety shoes, goggles and gloves.
Position requires a physical examination including pre-employment drug/alcohol screening.
Preferred: Knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite including Word, Access and Excel.