Reporting to the Safety Team Lead, the Fire and Explosion Safety Specialist is a technical member of the team supporting and collaborating with other team members as well as staff within the OHS Program Delivery branch.

The Fire and Explosion Safety Specialist is a provincial specialist who provides subject matter expertise in support of projects, issues, publications, client responses, and front-line compliance and enforcement activities related to the Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Act, Regulation and Code.

As the Fire and Explosion Safety Specialist, you will be accountable for the following key activities in the branch:

• Provide fire and explosions expertise in reviewing and interpreting the OHS Act, Regulation and Code.
• Assist in anticipating, identifying, and assessing fire and explosion hazards and recommend control measures in all types of provincially regulated workplaces.
• Support OHS investigations in responding to reportable incidents by providing subject matter expertise including providing interpretations and opinions, preparing subject matter expert reports and appearing if required in legal proceedings as an expert witness.
• Provide advice and technical analysis of issues to the Ministry and stakeholders in industry, labour, government, and other agencies regarding a variety of fire and explosion hazards.
• As a subject matter expert, you will be required to use your specialized knowledge to support the development of legislative provisions related to fire and explosion hazards.

Your role is both critical to delivery of front-line services (enforcement of the OHS legislation, investigation of incidents) as well as government operations and priorities.