safety officer

A safety officer ensures workplace safety and is typically responsible for:

developing policies and procedures for assuring personnel safety and reducing workplace hazards
when workplace mishaps and accidents do occur, monitoring their progress and resolution

Practices will vary from site to site, but a safety officer typically preforms these tasks:

Prepare a site-specific safety plan and medical plan
Identify occupational safety and health hazards.
Monitor workers for exposure to health-hazardous conditions.
Mitigate or eliminate unsafe conditions, operations, or hazards.
Provide safety training to workers.
Maintain required PPE for workers.
Comply with government regulations, such as US OSHA standards.
Investigate and document workplace mishaps (incidents), corrective actions taken on the scene, resulting injuries, and ways to improve safety in the future.