Health Safety Coordinator

Health & Safety Coordinator

The Health & Safety Coordinator serves as the site subject matter expert and leader for health, safety and security programs at the Pedricktown Processing Facility. This position is responsible for driving a proactive safety culture, ensuring OSHA compliance, leading incident prevention initiatives, managing site security programs, and influencing operational leaders to achieve safety performance and culture. The Health and Safety Coordinator role provides leadership through coaching, auditing, incident investigations, risk assessments, training and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce injuries, strengthen security controls.

Major Responsibilities

• Health and Safety Compliance:
  Serve as the facility expert on OSHA regulations and corporate EHS requirements.
• Documentation:
  Creates, modifies, and maintains Health and Safety procedures and program documentation with traceability for version control, keeping workers and Management informed of the program, process, changes and new requirements.
• Inspections:
  Performs all Health and Safety inspections on a regular basis, making recommendations for continuous improvement.
• Investigations:
  Lead investigations involving injuries, illnesses, property damage, environmental events, security incidents and near misses utilizing root cause analysis methodologies.
• Workplace Hazardous Materials:
  Partners with the Site Management to maintain up to date hazardous materials, awareness and training and Material Safety Data Sheet (SDS) compliance, under the Globally Harmonized System (GHS).
• Certifications:
  
  Ensures all certification, inspection, servicing requirements are maintained in accordance with current legislation, including fire certification and compliance, seeks quotations as required and makes recommendations to the site management team.
• Internal Safety Program Audit:
  Implements and conducts regular internal audits and recommends improvements to comply with all Health & Safety regulations.
• Emergency Response:
  Creates and updates Fire Safety Plan, Emergency Response Plan, organizes and evaluates regular evacuation drills and recommends corrective action for improvements, maintains first aid action plan and communications. Oversees monthly fire extinguisher checks. Organizes annual safety shoe truck and audiometric program. Assists with first aid administration and injured worker claim management.
• Risk Assessment:
  Assists with evaluating existing Risk Assessment and Control Matrix, makes recommendations for improvements and communicates to all parties.
• Ergonomics:
  Understands ergonomics and can assess risks, recommend alternative work methods, liaise with external parties to implement equipment or revised processes that eliminate or reduce bodily strain and injuries. Coaches employees on ergonomics as needed.
• Reporting:
  Regularly reports health and safety stats to Health, Safety, Security & Continuous Improvement Manager for inclusion in Period End Reports.
• Training:
  Creates and conducts regular Safety Talks, new hire and contractor safety awareness training and sign off, and conducts and records all training in database/Alchemy Training System. Recommends and registers external safety training courses for key personnel and tracks completion and renewal dates. Creates, trains, and updates Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs). Provides support for programs such as LOTO, Hazard Communication, Emergency Response, Respiratory Protection, Hearing Conservation, etc.
• Customer Service:
  Provides support that is collaborative, valued, knowledgeable, and timely. Acts as liaison between The Lamb Company and Americold for safety, security, parking, air quality and other related issues. Models behaviors that support the Health and Safety policy.
• Joint Health and Safety Committee:
  Participates as an active member of the JHSC meetings, takes, posts and distributes the minutes, and educates and coaches the committee members to understand and fulfill their responsibilities.
• Other Duties:
  Performs other related duties as assigned, and initiates recommendations to further enhance the company's recognition as a top employer.

Key Success Measures

• New hires, temporary workers and contractors receive Health and Safety training to perform their duties.
• All Health and Safety training programs are updated and training records are maintained.
• Recordable Injury Frequency Rate for the facility is at or below industry standard of 5.1%.

Qualifications & Considerations for the Position

Post-secondary education (Diploma in Occupational Safety, Industrial Safety, and Industrial Hygiene). Minimum 3-4 years work experience in a Health & Safety role within the food (meat) processing industry, preferred. Working knowledge of OSHA. Ability to lead Joint Health and Safety Committee and influence proactive safety culture. Current CPR and First Aid training, or willing to complete. Must be able to work independently and collaboratively, with strong ability to influence others.

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