Regional Safety Manager

Key Duties & Responsibilities

Safety Leadership & Program Ownership

• Own safety integration for the electronic security scope; provide visible, proactive safety leadership across all buildings and work areas.

• Support and reinforce the customer’s Vision Zero approach and Convergint’s safety culture, prioritizing elimination, substitution, engineering and administrative controls.

• Coordinate the project safety program with the Project Executive, Project Manager, General Superintendent, Superintendents, QA/QC Lead, and subcontractor leadership.

• Ensure adequate safety resources, competent supervision, trained workers, correct PPE, and proper tools/equipment are in place before work proceeds.

Daily Planning & Control of Work

• Lead and review daily task planning — JHA / SPA / PTP / RAMS — confirming hazard identification, controls, competent-person/supervision assignments, permit interfaces, stop-work conditions, and crew briefings/signatures before work starts and after any scope change.

• Integrate Convergint work into the GC control-of-work system: site access, orientation/induction, badging, daily planning, permits, DABS, four-week lookahead, Last Planner, and morning whiteboard meetings.

• Confirm no task begins until the daily JHA/SPA, required permits, PPE, tools, access equipment, and supervision are verified.

• Obtain and enforce compliance with permits-to-work for energized work, hot work, confined space, out-of-hours work, lifting, and other site-defined permit activities.

• Coordinate with electrical, telecom, doors/hardware, millwork, fire alarm, facilities, and other trades to prevent unsafe trade stacking and blocked or congested work areas.

High-Risk Activity Management

• Forecast, review, approve, supervise, and document high-risk activities (HRAs) through the GC planning process.

• Manage work at height: enforce the Convergint standard that any task with feet above 8 feet requires a lift unless a written exception is approved; apply ladders-last requirements; verify equipment inspection, fall protection, tool tethering/dropped-object controls, and rescue planning when fall arrest is used.

• Manage MEWP / lift use: confirm trained and authorized operators, pre-use inspections, ground conditions, barricaded work zones, spotters, and tie-off/secondary-guarding requirements.

• Manage electrical safety, energization, and LOTO: interface with the GC Energy Management Program; enforce written, site-specific LOTO procedures, documented isolation, zero-energy verification, lockout devices (not tags alone), and the requirement that nothing is energized, de-energized, or tested without written authorization.

• Escalate exception requests (e.g., ladder use above limits) through the appropriate operations-leadership approval process before work begins.

Commissioning & Testing Safety

• Establish and enforce safety controls across all commissioning phases — Phase I contractor pretesting, Phase II corporate systems testing, and Phase III final commissioning / validation.

• Confirm work-area access, power readiness, safe access to devices, trained technicians, lifts/operators, lighting, radios, credentials, and emergency contacts before testing proceeds.

• Ensure re-inspection and retesting follow the same safety-planning process as original testing, and that out-of-hours or weekend testing is GC-approved and never performed alone.

PPE, Fatigue & Fitness for Work

• Communicate and enforce minimum PPE requirements (head, eye, hi-vis, foot, hand, clothing) and task-specific PPE per RAMS/JHA/SPA, SDS, equipment instructions, and permits.

• Apply fatigue-management and fitness-for-duty controls: review extended/night/weekend hours for fatigue risk, prohibit lone working for out-of-hours work (buddy system required), and manage heat/cold-stress controls.

• Escalate to the PM and Project Executive when schedule compression or recovery plans would require unsafe work hours or insufficient rest.

Incident, Near-Miss & Stop-Work Management

• Administer stop-work authority — stop work, make the area safe, notify supervision, document the condition, correct the hazard, and resume only after controls are verified. Reinforce that every worker holds stop-work authority.

• Lead immediate notification and response for injuries/first-aid/recordables, near misses and high-potential (HiPO) events, unsafe acts/conditions, and property-damage/fire/environmental incidents; preserve scenes and support investigations as required.

• Drive corrective-action plans: assign owners and due dates, verify closure, and escalate repeated or serious non-conformances.

Records, Reporting & Compliance

• Maintain clean, accurate safety records: safety planning, JHAs/SPAs, inspections, permits, training, observation logs, incidents, corrective actions, and closeout safety deliverables.

• Compile and submit weekly safety reporting — peak headcount, man-hours, recordable and first-aid incidents, near misses, fire/environmental incidents, property damage, unsafe acts/conditions, orientations completed, permits issued, and safety standdowns.

• Verify subcontractor safety requirements are reviewed before mobilization and that subcontractors provide competent supervision, trained workers, PPE, daily reporting, JHAs/SPAs, and permit compliance.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable customer EH&S exhibits, GC site-specific safety program rules, OSHA regulations, and Convergint EH&S policy.

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