Safety Manager

Souderton, Pennsylvania

The Safety Manager is responsible for leading and managing the plant’s occupational safety and health programs to ensure a safe, compliant, and injury-free work environment for all employees. This position provides safety leadership throughout the beef case-ready operation, including production, fabrication, packaging, sanitation, maintenance, quality assurance, warehouse, shipping, and support functions.

• Lead the plant’s overall safety program and serve as the primary safety resource for management and employees.
• Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations, company safety policies, and applicable federal, state, and local requirements.
• Conduct routine safety inspections, audits, observations, and hazard assessments throughout the facility.
• Identify unsafe conditions and behaviors and develop corrective actions to eliminate or reduce hazards.
• Partner with Operations leadership to establish and maintain effective safety practices in a high-volume beef processing and case-ready environment.
• Develop, implement, and maintain safety programs, procedures, policies, and training initiatives.
• Manage and monitor programs including, but not limited to:
• Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)
• Machine guarding
• Personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Hazard Communication
• Ergonomics
• Powered industrial trucks
• Confined spaces
• Electrical safety
• Fall protection
• Emergency response
• Bloodborne pathogens, where applicable
• Respiratory protection, where applicable
• Chemical safety
• Hearing conservation
• Heat and cold stress
• Slips, trips, and falls
• Lead investigations of workplace injuries, illnesses, near misses, and other safety incidents. Identify root causes and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions.
• Monitor OSHA recordkeeping requirements and ensure workplace injuries and illnesses are documented accurately and timely.
• Coordinate OSHA reporting requirements when applicable.
• Analyze safety data and trends to identify recurring hazards and opportunities for improvement.
• Develop and communicate safety metrics and performance reports to plant leadership.
• Conduct and/or coordinate employee safety training, including new-hire orientation, refresher training, regulatory training, and job-specific safety training.
• Work with supervisors and managers to ensure employees receive appropriate training before performing assigned work.
• Conduct regular safety meetings, toolbox talks, and employee safety communications.
• Participate in incident review meetings and safety committees.
• Promote employee involvement in safety initiatives and encourage employees to report hazards, near misses, and unsafe conditions.
• Assist management with developing safe work practices for new equipment, processes, production lines, and facility modifications.
• Review equipment, processes, and proposed changes for potential safety hazards.
• Partner with Maintenance and Operations to ensure appropriate machine guarding and energy-control procedures are implemented.
• Evaluate ergonomic risks associated with repetitive work, lifting, pushing, pulling, standing, reaching, cutting, trimming, packaging, and other activities common to beef processing.
• Recommend engineering, administrative, and work-practice controls to reduce ergonomic and other workplace hazards.
• Coordinate with Human Resources and management regarding workers’ compensation claims, workplace injuries, return-to-work efforts, and transitional duty when applicable.
• Maintain appropriate documentation related to safety inspections, investigations, training, corrective actions, and regulatory compliance.
• Coordinate with insurance carriers, third-party safety consultants, regulatory agencies, and other external partners as necessary.
• Assist…