Site Manager’s Safety Responsibilities
Each of our Site Managers have an important responsibility for safety in their respective areas. They are the primary contact and have immediate control over their employees.
The Site Managers responsibilities and duties will include, but are not limited to:
- To acquire and maintain a copy of the Cambridge Real Estate Services Safety Manual and MSDS.
- Ensure all site employee know where the Safety Manual and MSDS is located.
- Provide safety training and support to site employees.
- Enforce the safety rules, procedures, and guideline set forth by the Cambridge Real Estate Services Safety Committee.
- Meet monthly with site staff to discuss safety topics (provided by the Safety Committee), communicate site specific safety related incidents and issues, and encourage employee input regarding incident prevention.
- Conduct quarterly “Community Safety Inspections” of the property, submit reports to your Property Supervisor. Inspection worksheet can be found on MultiFamily Forms.
Hiring and Training New Employees
Our work force is our most valuable and most important asset. We want to select qualified employees. Once hired, thorough training and education is paramount to understand our objectives and the safest, most productive way to do your job.
Prospective employees:
- Each prospective employee will fill out an employment application.
- Each prospective employee will receive a personal interview either by our human resources department or the supervisor.
- A phone call reference check will be made of the prospective employee’s previous employers. Background security checks will be routine evaluations for money and high security-sensitive positions.
- Physical exams may be required for some positions, pending an offer of employment, consistent with ADA regulations and the physical demands of the job. Actual commencement of the job is based on successfully passing this exam including drug and background screening. Physical exam criterion are based on job descriptions that have identified critical physical demands to fulfill the specific job requirements.
- We at Cambridge Real Estate Services currently use the services of Bio Med to perform drug screening and Background Investigation Services to perform our background and criminal screening. All detail of the screenings will remain within files of our human resources department.
- Job descriptions will be updated each year with input from each supervisor. They must reflect the actual critical job demands, as well as cognitive skills employees must have to hold a given position. The safety committee must provide input and approval to the process of upgrading job descriptions.