Manager, EHS TV Production

The Manager, Environment, Health & Safety (EHS) is responsible for working with assigned television productions to ensure compliance with all applicable company, federal, state, local, and/or international environmental, occupational safety and health policies, rules and regulations. Primary Responsibilities (essential functions): Implement and maintain appropriate safety programs, e.g., Injury and Illness Prevention Program, policies, and procedures as necessary to ensure a safe and healthful work environment for all employees and guests of the productions. Establish, administer, and enforce a program of safe practices for all production personnel. Ensure appropriate pre-lease inspections are conducted for all potential production spaces and resolve any identified EHS issues. Conduct a review/breakdown of each script to identify potential EHS issues, e.g., special effects, stunts, unusual activities, and hazardous locations. Participate in each production's tech scout and production meeting, as necessary, to understand scheduled production activities and provide guidance for any safety issues. Prepare a location safety memo, as required, to inform the production of general location safety issues as well as specific location safety items. Establish and implement procedures for proper hazardous waste accumulation and disposal following company policies. Facilitate and/or conduct EHS testing of any location that presents potential EHS hazards, e.g., testing water quality, air quality, coordinating abatement and/or encapsulation of areas/materials. Attend stunt rehearsals and special effects tests to provide input from the EHS perspective and be on set during the shooting of these stunts & effects, as necessary. Provide education & safety training to production crew, supervisors and management in safety awareness, safe work practices, documentation requirements, and general regulatory compliance, as necessary. Establish a safety committee on productions as required, or when Government regulations require that a committee be formed. Provide EHS equipment or instruments, when applicable, to assist in compliance of EHS laws and programs. If equipment or instruments are not available, provide contacts where equipment can be procured. Discuss the injury and illness paperwork process with the designated production contact and production medic(s) to ensure paperwork is completed properly. Conduct investigations of all accidents, incidents, significant events, and emergencies promptly in accordance with company policies and applicable laws and regulations. Travel to and inspect production work sites, locations, sets, warehouse space, and any other such related facilities on an ongoing basis with the intent to assess safety issues, identify and resolve safety hazards, and potential exposures. Track, review and analyze all injuries/illnesses and accident investigations for each production to determine trends, root cause, regulatory compliance, and follow-up actions. Act as a liaison on EHS issues between the production’s management, cast, crew and any regulatory agencies. On international productions, work with the assigned local safety professional(s), if hired, to ensure production compliance with all rules, regulations, and company polices. Report promptly to company management any injury or incident that triggers federal, state, and/or local reporting regulations. Secondary Responsibilities: Manage Intellistack/Formstack applications, developing new forms and mapping distributions to appropriate show files and storage. Periodically review EHS data storage to comply with company data protection policies Work with Senior Director, Production EHS to realize established short and long-term departmental goals. Work with Production Leadership, Senior Director, Production EHS and other EHS Directors/Managers to ensure consistent application of company policies across all productions and evaluate whether these policies are effective. Actively participate in any Production Executive/EHS meetings and weekly EHS departmental meetings and be prepared to discuss issues related to your assigned shows. Interface with outside regulatory agencies as required, e.g., Fire Department, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) representatives. Participate in the ongoing review of existing, and research and creation of EHS programs, policies, procedures, guidelines and bulletins. Represent NBCUniversal to external professional organizations, peers and employees in a professional manner. Assist with workers compensation claims management. Conduct ongoing review of assigned productions to ensure that the application of EHS processes and systems are effective. Maintain departmental safety and personal protective equipment (PPE) inventory and distribution tracking.