L&I Dosh Compliance Industrial Safety And Health Investigator 3

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This posting will close on 3/31/2024 at 11:59am

Our Mission: Keep Washington Safe and Working!
Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability

**In addition to the base salary**

King County Premium Pay - Employees assigned to a permanent duty station in King County will receive 5% Premium Pay calculated from their base salary.

PLUS

Industrial Hygienists and Safety & Health Professionals will be compensated basic salary plus 10%for each hour they are required to use personal protective equipment (excluding hard hats, boots, hearing and eye protection) to enter a hazardous worksite to consult, inspect or investigate where serious hazards are present.

AND IF BILINGUAL

If hired as bilingual (not required), after passing an assessment of your ability to write and speak fluently. We do not use translating software. Employees with bilingual responsibilities receive a 5% increase in pay.

ALSO

We value our employees and their work-life balance by encouraging flexible schedules. This position can be offered with a flexible schedule (4/10’s, 9/80’s, 5/8’s etc.) once fully trained and approved by management.

AND

All Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) required for this position will be provided by L&I DOSH as specified in WAC 296-800-16020.

L&I's Division of Occupational Safety and Health (DOSH) administers the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA) law by developing and enforcing rules that protect workers from hazardous job conditions. Our investigators visit about 5,000 workplaces each year and cite businesses that violate health and safety rules.
The Compliance Safety and Health Investigator (CISHI) positions are used to maintain Federal approval of the state plan occupational Safety and Health program that is necessarily authorized under statute, Chapter 49.17 RCW, the Washington Industrial Safety and Health Act (WISHA). DOSH Compliance investigators have enforcement authority over all employers in the state of Washington. This includes private and public sector, state, county, and city authorities. The approved State program at the Department of Labor and Industries must be maintained as-effective-as the federal OSHA compliance program. The work is aimed at ensuring all employers comply with workplace Safety and Health laws and rules to prevent worker and public fatalities, injuries and illnesses, to include compliance enforcement through legal processes and procedures.
CISHI-3s are senior levelSafety and Health Investigators that have attended a defined new hire course that includes over 360 classroom hours (provided upon hire). They conduct highly complex investigations and inspections of Safety and Health hazards in all industries independently or in teams. This includes fatalities or accident investigations, resulting in hospitalizations, amputations, or loss of an eye.
They lead CISHI-1 and CISHI-2 investigators and inspectors, or work as part of a team assisting and supporting CISHI-5 supervisors and CISHI-6 expert level Industrial Safety and Health engineers in highly complex investigations and inspections.
All of this work is crucial to the Safety and Health of the workers of the State of Washington, and directly impacts and supports the Department’s mission, “Keep Washington Safe and Working”.
We are recruiting for three positions under this posting. For these positions, telework is permitted on occasion dependent upon business needs and supervisor approval. The assigned duty station for this position is Seattle, Tukwila, or Bellevue, Washington.