Safety Specialist - - 27522 - UCLA Health

General Information

Work Location: Los Angeles, CA, USA

Onsite or Remote

Fully On-Site

Work Schedule

Mon-Fri 8am-5pm

Posted Date

12/16/2025

Salary Range: $33.96 - 69.54 Hourly

Employment Type

2 - Staff: Career

Duration

Indefinite

Job #

27436

Primary Duties and Responsibilities

Under the direction of the Assistant Director, serve as a Safety Specialist for the UCLA Health Office of Environmental Health & Safety Ambulatory Division. Responsibilities include assisting in implementing and providing support for Environmental Health & Safety programs, including Injury Prevention and Ergonomics support throughout the UCLA Health Ambulatory clinic locations. Conduct injury investigations, ergonomic evaluations and other employee risk reduction functions. Assist in the development of measures to ensure a safe, healthy and secure environment for staff, patients and visitors.

Job Qualifications

1. Experience or knowledge of working with injury prevention and occupational safety, ergonomics, hazardous materials and other EHS Programs

2. Bachelor’s Degree in Health and Safety, Engineering, Public Health, or similar relevant fields and/or equivalent combination of education and experience.

3. Knowledge of hospital operations operate safely and in compliance with all laws, regulations, accreditation standards, policies, and procedures.

4. Skill in preparing concise, logical and grammatically correct memos, policies, reports and other documents.

5. Skill in reading, understanding and interpreting National and State laws and Hospital Safety codes.

6. Knowledge of Medical Center Safety policies and procedures.

7. Ability to coordinate, conduct and lead training and education sessions

8. Ability to establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with other staff members, managers, administration and external persons and regulatory agencies

9. Ability to make effective presentations to convey information on safety policies, procedures and issues.

10. General knowledge of Joint Commission standards.

As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts an offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of substantiated misconduct with a previous employer.

Current/former UC employees are subject to a personnel file review.