Safety Attendant

Description:

The Safety Attendant (hole watch/Firewatch/bottle watch), while assigned to jobs inside of a facility, works outside of confined spaces and is responsible for monitoring and protecting the workers entering the confined space, and alerting rescue if necessary. The Safety Attendant may also be responsible for monitoring workers performing hot work and is responsible for protecting the workers and preventing fires, and if necessary, extinguishing small fires. The Safety Attendant will also be responsible for protecting personnel working under fresh air and will be responsible for monitoring the air quantity and air pressure being delivered to the workers. Attendants will constantly scrutinize a prescribed area of concern as their main job duty. Maintains meticulous records of any suspicious or potentially hazardous conditions, activating appropriate alarms and promptly contacting emergency response personnel as necessary. A hole watch/fire watch safety attendant monitors and protects other personnel performing work in high-risk environments.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Initiates JSA’s and obtains, reads, understands and enforces safe work permits, hot work permits, and confined space entry permits.
• Obtains and reviews entire permit at job site, identifying any mistakes and ensuring that any mistakes are corrected. Sets up the job per procedures for work being performed. Also knows who to contact in case of emergency and where the nearest eyewash and safety showers are located.
• Ensure that proper equipment needed for job is in place. (e.g. vest, meters, radios, air horn, barricade tape or breathing air barricades and tags; fire extinguisher, charged water hose with nozzle, horn, fire blankets or burlap to cover drains, PPE).
• Follows all steps required before allowing work per guidelines and procedures specific to work being performed. Ensures that all workers have on the PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) specified on the permit.
• Follow all procedures while work is in progress. Maintains visual and/or radio communication with crew. Observes work conditions and maintains awareness of anything that could endanger the workers.
• Conducts job completion routine and completes all documentation per procedure.
• Gathers equipment and notifies customers that job is complete.
• General housekeeping duties and other duties assigned.

Requirements:

• Verifiable experience performing hole watch, fire watch, & bottle watch duties
• Ability to travel, sometimes for extended periods of time (Per Diem, logging, and transportation provided)
• Successful completion of pre-employment screening to include drug screen and background check.
• Safety-oriented attitude with a true commitment to personal safety, as well as the safety of others is a must.
• Must be willing/able to don respiratory protection equipment for extended periods of time if necessary.
• Ability to read, write and comprehend English; bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Ability to operate equipment including atmospheric monitoring meters (O2, -H2S, CO & LEL), radios and fire extinguishers. Familiarity with plant equipment where work is being performed is helpful.