The ES&H
Coordinator training:
- Outlines your responsibilities as an ES&H Coordinator
- Outlines the responsibilities of the Lead ES&H Coordinator
- Offers basic information to help you serve as an ES&H Coordinator
- Provides links to further information that is useful to ES&H
Coordinators
To complete this training:
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Read this webpage thoroughly
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Print the
Course 398 Signature Page
(link at end of document)
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Send the completed
Course 398 Signature Page to the
Lead ES&H
Coordinator,
Barbara Fuller.
Contents:
As a SLAC ES&H Coordinator at the directorate, division,
department, and group level, you are an individual in the line organization who
helps SLAC achieve and maintain excellence in matters of environmental
concern and the safety and health of its staff and the public. The ES&H
Division looks to you to coordinate and contribute to the SLAC mission of:
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Ensuring a safe and healthful workplace
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Minimizing adverse impact to the public and environment, and
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Complying with all applicable laws, standards, and regulations
Because of the vital link you provide, as an ES&H
Coordinator you must be aware of, informed about, and participate with the
ES&H Division staff in activities that carry-out SLAC scientific missions
and environment, safety, and health missions.
ES&H Coordinators participate in activities by:
- Promoting understanding about and implementation of
good environmental protection, safety, and health policies and practices
by distributing guidance documents and by assisting the staff in their
directorate, division, department or group
in obtaining the appropriate environment, safety, and health
training and education.
- Serving as the liaison with the ES&H Division
to help provide the technical assistance needed to identify and control
hazards associated with the work processes and fulfill environmental
protection, safety, and health responsibilities within their
directorate, division, department or group.
- Directing the staff in their
directorate, division, department or group to the
services provided by the ES&H Division as needed. These services
include: environmental protection, fire protection services, occupational
health management, personnel protection system design, radiation dosimetry,
radiation shielding, and waste management.
- Interpreting the requirements imposed by the Work
Smart Standards (WSS) Set for work groups within their
directorate, division, department or group and
assisting supervisors with implementing those requirements.
- Assisting in keeping the WSS Set current.
- Monitoring for compliance with the laws,
regulations, and standards contained in the WSS Set by conducting
inspections and self-assessments.
(For further information, view
the
full text of the above
descriptions.)
In your specific Coordinator
role, you may directly participate in only some of the above tasks; however, all
Coordinators play an integral part in ensuring that efficient connections are
made between managers in their directorate, division, department, or group and ES&H
Division subject-matter experts. As the primary point of contact, you help
guidance flow from the ES&H Division to your staff and from
your staff to ES&H. You are often the primary point of contact
connecting your managers to ES&H during an audit and its preparation.
Even if you don’t know an answer to a question about
safe work or environmental protection, you assure people you will help find an
answer, then follow through on that promise. You are a “home base” for your
directorate,
division, department, or group when it comes to concerns about work safety and
environmental protection. Your role contributes to the credibility of the
overall ES&H program.
The Lead ES&H Coordinator serves as a liaison for
all directorate, division, department, group, or project ES&H coordinators at SLAC.
Responsibilities of the Lead ES&H Coordinator
include:
- Administering
the ES&H Coordinator Training Document (Course 398) to coordinators,
revising the document, and obtaining signature verification of course
completion from each coordinator for ES&H Training records.
- Creating
and maintaining a name and e-mail address list of coordinators so that
educational, regulatory, lessons learned, or other information may be
shared within the group.
- Maintaining
an informal library of safety publications available for check out by any
coordinator.
- Serve
as an “ombudsperson” for all ES&H coordinators, assisting them in
resolving any issues related to their coordinator role at SLAC.
The
current Lead ES&H Coordinator is
Barbara Fuller.
Your
supervisor should acknowledge your Coordinator role in your annual performance
evaluation. The Human Resources Web site has a page with
brief general job
descriptions for Coordinators.
The job description that matches your Coordinator title can be copied and
modified as needed by your supervisor to aid him/her in describing and
evaluating your work as a Coordinator. You may want to give your supervisor a
summary of your primary accomplishments for the year so you receive credit for
your crucial role at SLAC.
As
required by the Department of Energy (DOE), SLAC is contractually committed to
conducting work efficiently and in a manner that ensures the protection of
workers, the public, and the environment. DOE policies require that an
integrated safety and environmental management system (ISEMS) be used to systematically integrate
safety and environmental awareness into management and work practices at all levels so that work is
accomplished while protecting the public, the worker, and the environment.
Review the
SLAC ISEMS document
[PDF]
for a full overview of the safety system at SLAC as carried out by line
management. In your role as Coordinator, know that you support these managers
and serve as a “home base” for your directorate, division, department, or group
in matters relating to environment, safety, and health.
You
and your supervisor should view the section of the SLAC Training Assessment
(STA) that references
“focused training programs” as it applies to ES&H
Coordinator training. By reading Course 398 – ES&H Coordinator Training (the
document you are now reading), you are completing the only “required” course for
the responsibilities of an ES&H Coordinator. However, the STA assessment
questions will
help you determine which of the “recommended” courses will best serve you,
based on the scope of your responsibilities. Use
a training plan to help you keep
your records in order
[PDF].
The
Web is a helpful tool for ES&H Coordinators because it quickly links to both
internal and external ES&H information or contact names that simplify your
job and make it more fun.
Below
are links that will be useful to you as a Coordinator. If you find other
resources that help you in your work as a Coordinator, please share them with
the Lead ES&H Coordinator
and she will pass them on to the Coordinator Distribution List.
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