The Safety and Risk Management Consultant (Consultant) of TRISTAR’s Risk Control Division, Aspen Risk Management Group (Aspen), provides safety, risk, and loss control consultation services to clients of varying sizes and complexities.
The Consultant is responsible for delivering expert guidance and innovative risk management and safety practices solutions. This role focuses on assessing client needs, developing tailored safety and risk prevention programs, and implementing effective risk mitigation strategies across various industries.
The Consultant will collaborate closely with clients to enhance their safety culture, ensure compliance with regulations, and reduce workplace hazards. By leveraging industry knowledge and analytical skills, the Consultant aims to provide actionable insights that drive improvements in safety performance and operational efficiency.
This position requires strong communication skills, building relationships with stakeholders, and a commitment to delivering exceptional service that aligns with the organization's mission of protecting lives and promoting a safe working environment.
Their primary purpose is to help clients save lives, prevent injuries and illnesses, and protect them from harm.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- This is a remote position, generally working from home or a virtual office. Occasionally, there may be the need to visit a traditional office for meetings, training, or other events.
- Provides clients with onsite (and virtual) safety and risk management services.
- Due to client locations, overnight travel may be required. The ability to bundle client work is an expectation of maximizing Consultant time and client servicing utilization.
- Scheduling is self-managed, focusing on priorities such as client demands and service schedules, travel and bundling efficiencies, risk and underwriting needs, client expectations, incident and injury trends, client hazards and exposures, injury potential, and other factors.
- Creates action plans for safety and risk management services, visiting (onsite or virtual) some clients several times per year.
- Conducts “one-time loss control surveys” onsite or virtual.
- Working with clients, exercises independent consideration for workplace safety recommendations and support, independent of direct supervision. Evaluates the effectiveness of the client's hazard controls associated with their operations.
- Based on the skillsets required to provide safety services and recommendations, Consultants perform work that may affect the business substantially, including liability.
- Requires superb communication skills working directly with client business owners, executives, operations, risk and safety, insurance, human resources, finance, benefits, and others.
- Requires a solid understanding of workplace safety and risk principles and practices.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Consultant position requires minimal supervision and must have:
- Skills to effectively evaluate the client's operations (onsite or virtually) to determine workplace hazards, evaluate the effectiveness of workplace hazard controls, and develop written recommendations for clients to improve hazard control and workplace safety efforts. May assist the client with the implementation of plans.
- Solid working knowledge of safety and risk principles, loss and risk control, safety regulations, and the best practices of safety, as well as a preferred core understanding of workers’ compensation, general liability, and other disciplines as needed.
- Ability to conduct safety and risk evaluations to determine loss potential.
- Skills to gain client support to commit to improvements. Create realistic timeframes for operational improvements that will positively impact client safety and risk programs.
- Capability to review existing safety programs and assess their compliance and functional effectiveness.
- Effective training skills to lead meetings and presentations on various workplace safety topics. The Consultant may provide client training in workplace safety, injury prevention, and cost controls – including “drilling down to root causes.” They may be involved with helping clients manage and control their injuries and workplace hazards and assist in helping clients implement workplace safety programs.
- Strong communication skills to conduct high-level senior management professional business communications (presentations, emails, letters, in-person meetings, report writing, and telephone). Client interactions may be one-on-one or group settings where the goal is to foster collaboration and provide guidance.
- Aptitude to respond effectively to specific safety problems or concerns raised by clients.
- Skillsets to develop systematic plans of action to reduce risk potential based on exposures and loss analysis. Evaluate client progress, suggesting program modifications as necessary.
- Strong organizational skills and self-motivated, capable of managing multiple tasks. The ability to interact and forge relationships with diverse personality types is invaluable. Friendliness, professionalism, and client-oriented writing and presentation skills are essential.
- Demonstrated proficiency in conducting root cause analysis for risk mitigation. Ability to perform loss analysis reviews to prevent injuries and incidents and improve safety.
- Exceptional skills using the Internet and other safety sources as a research tool.
