Safety Manager

Safety Manager

A Safety Manager develops, implements, and oversees workplace health and safety programs, ensuring compliance with regulations like OSHA, conducting risk assessments, providing employee training, investigating incidents, and fostering a strong safety culture to prevent accidents, minimize liability, and protect workers. Key duties include daily inspections, analyzing safety data, reporting to management, and acting as a liaison with regulatory bodies and implementing environmental, health, and safety (EHS) policies, procedures, training, inspections, and audits.

Assist with environmental, health and safety (EHS) inspections of the distribution center. Drive consistency with safety incident investigations, fact-finding, data collection and root cause analysis, and corrective actions. You will drive proactive safety culture engagement through risk mitigation and addressing unsafe behaviors and hazards in the workplace.

This position will support both DC and network safety needs.

Key Responsibilities

• Promote safety awareness and cultivate distribution center safety culture. Works cooperatively and harmoniously with distribution center management, supervisors, leads, co-workers, and support departments.
• Understand and ensure regulatory compliance with all state and federal regulatory laws and regulations.
• Completes assigned safety projects and tasks independently and work well within a team environment.
• Conduct safety training (new hire, refresher, job specific, powered industrial truck) sessions for associates and contractors.
• Inspects working conditions to ensure all areas and activities are compliant with health and safety guidelines.
• Create and manage comprehensive health and safety plans, procedures, and emergency response plans.
• Conduct regular hazard identification, risk assessments, and audits of facilities, machinery, and processes.
• Ensure adherence to all federal, state, and local safety laws (e.g., OSHA) and industry standards.
• Develop and deliver safety training, including new hire orientations, to promote a safety-first mindset.
• Compile data, track safety KPIs (like incident rates), and submit required reports to management and regulatory agencies.
• Champion safety initiatives, motivate employees, and promote a proactive safety culture.
• Serve as the point of contact for safety with internal teams (HR, Operations) and external entities (clients, contractors, regulators).
• Coordinates accident investigations, safety review meetings and safety committee meetings as needed.
• Suggests revisions to operational process methods and employee activity that does not meet health and safety expectations.
• Addresses any workplace-related health and safety issues and accidents.
• Collaborate closely with distribution center leadership to monitor compliance and identify health and safety issues.
• Daily monitoring reports and impacts in i-warehouse software. (site specific)
• Keep work areas safe, organized, and clean according to general warehousing/office practices and OSHA requirements daily.
• Conduct health and safety audits on operational compliance with safety policies and procedures.
• Participate in post-injury and incident investigations and evaluations.
• Inspects lift safety equipment such as fire exits, emergency lights, fire suppression systems, fire extinguishers, first aid kits, emergency eye washes, and other safety equipment.
• Coordinates safety training for associates with Powered Industrial Trucks (PIT), classroom, and floor practical certifications.
• Performs security functions, such as monitor associates when entering the building, issue badges and other security functions as needed.
• Lead and drive participation on the DC safety committee on all shifts.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or Equivalent
• Possesses strong leadership and collaboration skills.
• Prior Environmental, Health and Safety Experience in distribution center environments
• Exhibits knowledge of appropriate emergency response protocols.
• Exhibits strong organizational skills.
• Possess solid problem-solving and analytical abilities.
• Excellent attendance and willingness to be part of a team - performing whatever duties are necessary.
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