Whs Specialist

Experience maintaining confidentiality in matters involving security or personnel issues in the workplace
- Experience in workplace health & safety (WHS) related field
- Certificate IV in Workplace Health and Safety

At Amazon, we're committed to creating a safe and healthy work environment for our associates. As a Workplace Health and Safety Specialist, you'll play a pivotal role in promoting a positive safety culture on site, ensuring compliance with Amazon's Global Safety Program and local and regional laws and regulations. Your expertise will empower our operations teams to embrace best practices, continuously improve processes, and foster a workplace where safety is ingrained in every aspect of our operations.
Throughout the day, you'll engage in incident investigations, maintain accurate safety metrics, and ensure compliance with corporate expectations and local laws. Your effective communication skills will enable you to convey clear and consistent messages, empowering associates, leaders, and coordinators to embrace Amazon's safety standards.
As a Safety Specialist, you'll have the opportunity to shape the future of our WHS Management System in Australia, contributing to the development of procedures, training materials, and inspection programs that align with Amazon's Global WHS Standards (GEMS).
Why Amazon? Inclusive Team Culture Here at Amazon, it's in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness.
**Mentorship & Career Growth**: We're continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth's Best Employer. That's why you'll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.
Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why flexible work hours and arrangements are part of our culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there's nothing we can't achieve in the cloud.
Key job responsibilities
- Conduct daily, weekly, and monthly audits to identify compliance issues, safety risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Facilitate incident investigation processes and maintain accurate safety incident information.
- Perform safety observations, audits, and targeted training to upskill teams on safety responsibilities.
- Collaborate with site operations teams and the WHS manager to execute company policies and ensure regulatory compliance.
- Participate in process improvement activities and drive actions to completion.
- Support the development of the WHS Management System, procedures, training materials, and inspection programs.
- May have additional responsibility for fire prevention, hazardous waste management, or other safety related activities depending on the business unit and location.
- Participate in process improvement activities and manage actions to completion

A day in the life
Imagine a day where you inspire change through comprehensive risk assessments and data-driven insights on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. You'll collaborate with cross-functional teams, conducting trainings and coaching associates on safe work habits. Your keen eye for identifying improvement opportunities will drive continuous enhancement of our safety protocols, leveraging lean principles and kaizen methodologies.
About the team
The MEL1 WHS team mission is to empower and enable our leaders and team onsite to drive safety ownership. We all enjoy team engagement activities, especially those with food and conversation.
- Experience in emergency response
- Experience in worker's compensation case management
- Experience using Microsoft Word in a professional capacity
- Bachelors degree in Health and Safety related field.

**Acknowledgement of country**:
In the spirit of reconciliation Amazon acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
**IDE statement**:
Amazon is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Amazon is an equal opportunity employer, and does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or other legally protected attributes.