Senior OSHA Specialist 2026-00826

Posting number: 2026-00826

Department: Department of Workforce Services

Division: Worker's Comp - Casper

Job classification: INOS09 - SENIOR INSPECTION AND SAFETY SPECIALIST

Posting type: Open

Categories: Investigative, Safety

Summary

GENERAL DESCRIPTION: 


Schedules and conducts comprehensive OSHA health and safety inspections and fatality investigations of Wyoming workplaces to enforce the safety and health standards of the Wyoming Occupational Safety and Health Act for both private and public sector employers and writes extensive reports documenting hazards or violations when observed.

Working for the State of Wyoming offers more than a paycheck. Our total compensation package includes:

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
• Paid vacation, sick leave, FMLA, and holidays
• Retirement - Pension and 457B plans that help you build a secure future
• Flexible schedules and work-life balance options
• Meaningful work that makes a difference for Wyoming communities

and MUCH MORE!  Click here for detailed information, or you can watch this short video to learn about our benefit package!

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Human Resource Contact: 307-473-3270


ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:  The listed functions are illustrative only and are not intended to describe every function that may be performed at the job level.

• Analyze the workplace to identify safety and health hazards and determine sources relating to the 29 CFR 1910 General Industry, 29 CFR 1926 Construction Standards, and Wyoming Oil and Gas Drilling, Servicing, and Special Servicing Standards, or other related industry standards and enforce corrective action.
• Conducts a fatality/catastrophe/accident investigation and prepares written, detailed, comprehensive, and technical case file documentation relating to the investigation.
• Photographs/videotapes of site hazards identified during the walk-around inspection/investigation as part of the evidence collection.
• Interviews onsite management, employees, general contractors, and subcontractors to determine employee exposure and employer knowledge in a formal and informal setting.
• Develops hazard citations, communicates abatement options and establishes reasonable correction due dates.
• Determines if interim protections are adequate until hazards are corrected.
• Develops a sampling plan and conducts sampling/monitoring to identify and evaluate hazardous conditions with a wide variety of complex industrial hygiene instruments (air, noise, gas, radiation, indoor air quality, chemical, biological, heat stress, ergonomic, et al.).
• Determines appropriate sampling methodology to identify and quantify chemical, physical, and biological hazards in various types of large, small/high-hazard, and complex industries.
• Evaluate the employer's safety and health programs to determine if it complies with OSHA requirements.
• Prepares and writes affidavits, applies, and obtains administrative warrants for employers that refuse entry. Serves and files administrative warrants per judicial rules and procedures associated with inspection.
• Makes independent decisions in the field regarding rules & regulations, interpretation, and application advising the employer and employees of agency policies and procedures.
• Prepares written comprehensive/technical case file reports for the employer/employee associated with the inspection findings, lab results, employer program evaluations, and training documentation.
• Ensures citations are supportable and information/evidence obtained while onsite is admissible in a contested case/court of law.
• Conducts additional research of issues and other applicable standards pertaining to occupational health & safety using ancillary references (ANSI, ASME, API, CGA, NIOSH, AWS, NEC, SAE, NSC, ASAE, NFPA, ASHRAE, ASTM, CMAA, NRC, EPA, & NBS).
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