# Workplace Health & Safety Specialist

**Company**: Amazon
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: entry
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q456085

**Apply**: https://amazon.jobs/en/jobs/10602911/ehs-specialist?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply
**Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/workplace-health-and-safety-specialist-af1abaa1-0b7/

## Description

Join Amazon's mission to become Earth's safest place to work as a Workplace Health & Safety Specialist. You'll transform workplace safety culture, combining technology with human-centered solutions to protect employees and ensure they return home safely. Your expertise will drive comprehensive safety programs, lead daily safety audits, and implement innovative solutions to prevent injuries.

**Core Impact Areas:**

- Safety Program Excellence & Implementation: Drive safety programs through data-driven strategies, lead safety audits, and implement solutions to prevent injuries.

- Associate Advocacy & Cultural Leadership: Serve as a trusted safety advisor, build partnerships, and foster a culture where safety is everyone's priority.

**Additional Job Elements:**

- Lift up to 49 pounds and frequently push, pull, squat, bend, and reach.

- Stand/walk for up to 12 hours during shifts.

- Work in a varying noise level environment.

- Work in an environment with variable temperatures and weather.

- Continuously climb and descend stairs.

- Maintain effective care delivery in emergencies and assist emergency response.

- Must be available to work flexible shifts, including days, nights, and weekends.

- Obtain adult First Aid, CPR, AED certification within 3 weeks of start date if not already certified.

**Basic Qualifications:**

- High school or equivalent.

- 1 year in an Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) related field OR a Bachelor's degree in EHS-relevant background OR 6 months experience performing in a safety-related role within Amazon.

- Knowledge of OSHA regulations (29 CFR 1910).

- Experience using Microsoft Word and Excel.

- Experience maintaining confidentiality in security and personnel matters.

**Preferred Qualifications:**

- Bachelor's degree or higher in a safety-related field.

- Strong communication, teamwork, analysis, judgment, and customer focus skills.

- Experience leading and managing a team, analyzing accident data, and conducting job hazard and job safety analyses.

- Experience in emergency response and currently holding First Aid and CPR certificates.

- Experience in workers' compensation case management.

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## Skills

### Required
- OSHA regulations
- Microsoft Word
- Excel
- confidentiality in security and personnel matters

### Nice to have
- safety-related field
- communication
- teamwork
- analysis
- judgment
- customer focus
- emergency response
- First Aid
- CPR
- workers' compensation case management

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