Safety Knights

New-hire orientation, Engagement, Recognition, Retention, Incident reviews,

Incentives, engagement, and New-hire orientation.

For me right now, it's 100% of the time 🤣. At my previous employers, I was involved a lot. As others have mentioned, new hire orientation, incident investigations, incentives, and workers comp, but also performance reviews for my direct reports and developing PIPs (as needed), helping create job descriptions for EHS employees, assist with disciplinary action if it involved an EHS infraction, drug and alcohol testing (DOT and non-DOT) and applying for handling state drug and alcohol free workplace certification, handle fit for duty testing during onboarding process, and all aspects of the hiring process from creating key questions for the interview process, interviewing, determining salary ranges, and selecting proper candidates to fill various roles.

I would say a lot. In addition to what others have said, HR oversees our learning management system, there is a lot of policy overlap, and we sit on many of the same committees.

Back in 2014, the City Administrator moved the Safety Division from Administrative Services/Risk Management Department and put them under the HR Director. It was a good thing b/c in 2017, due to budget cutbacks, the Administrative Services/Risk Management Department was phased out and all the divisions underneath when to other Departments anyway (Janitorial, IT, Fleet, etc.).

I handle most of work comp with exception of the payroll information when needed. Otherwise I work with HR when it comes to new hires starting.

In my past life I was an HR Manager and the "Safety Guy". So I played in both worlds, The Health & Safety knowledge really helped me a lot with WC. I have always worked in self-insured corporations so we managed WC cases too. It was quite common back in the 70s and 80s to have "Safety" under Personnel. I do not even remember meeting anyone with a Safety or EHS degree until the early 90s. I graduated from one of the largest Big Ten Universities, There were a few options for Personnel and Labor Relations at the various colleges in my university. There was ONE 12 week-term class in the new Federal Agency named OSHA and no other EHS classes and certainly no major at the entire University! In any case about 1990 -1995 we became HR not Personnel. I remained a dinosaur with the Safety. As the years passed HR became more detached from H&S. By 2005 no one ever heard of Personnel and most of my peers in HR ran from H&S! Now I work with these new EHS grads at these small companies. One of the first things I ask is if they have had any recent Recordables! I am amazed when then have to call the HR Manager! I will then go to HR and look at the Log! I am amazed on how they maintain it! I find so many mistakes. The HR Managers have no training in 1904! It blows my mind!