Safety Director

HLSG is a repeat Great Place to Work–certified employer growing organically and through acquisition. For this role, that means real authority over a program that is still being standardized across multiple brands and plants, direct executive visibility, and measurable impact on both employee wellbeing and the Company’s cost of risk. Safety outcomes here are not abstract—they show up in experience modification rate, insurance renewal, CSA scores, and whether people go home in the same condition they arrived.

Compensation for this role reflects the scope of functional responsibility, with incentive opportunity tied directly to measurable safety and compliance outcomes.

Base Salary: $100,000, individually set based on experience and market.

Performance Incentives:

Annual performance incentive of up to 20% of base salary, tied to recordable injury and lost-time rates, preventable accident frequency, training completion, audit performance, and workers’ compensation cost outcomes.

Own the Company safety program end-to-end—written programs, standards, procedures, and expectations—and drive consistent application across all plants, brands, and fleet operations.

Build and maintain the annual safety plan with defined objectives, initiatives, and measures, and report progress to executive leadership on a fixed cadence.

Establish and support plant-level safety committees, ensuring they meet, act, and close findings rather than merely convene.

Conduct recurring safety audits and inspections at each facility against a standard scorecard so results are comparable across plants and over time, and verify corrective actions are completed.

Maintain compliance with OSHA general industry standards across all facilities, including recordkeeping and posting obligations (OSHA 300, 300A, and 301 logs and electronic submission).

Own the core hazard-control programs applicable to laundry processing: lockout/tagout, machine guarding, powered industrial trucks, confined space entry, fall protection, hot work, electrical safety and NFPA 70E, respiratory protection, hearing conservation, emergency action and fire prevention plans.

Own hazard communication and chemical safety including safety data sheet management, labeling, storage, spill response, and eyewash and shower provisions.

Address the exposures specific to this industry: heat stress in wash and dry areas, wet-floor slip and fall risk, ergonomic and repetitive-motion exposure at sorting, feeding, and folding stations, cart and material handling, and lifting injuries on both the soiled and clean sides.

Own the blood borne pathogens exposure control plan, including soiled linen handling procedures, sharps and contaminated-item response, personal protective equipment standards, Hepatitis B vaccination offering, and post-exposure evaluation and follow-up.

Maintain training and procedures that keep soiled-side handling practices consistent with HLAC accreditation standards and healthcare customer expectations.

Support customer, accreditation, and insurance audits as they relate to employee safety, PPE, and handling practice.

Partner with the Transportation team, which owns day-to-day Department of Transportation and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration operational compliance, providing safety oversight, subject-matter expertise, and independent verification that driver compliance programs are working as intended across intrastate and interstate operations in every state.

Support Transportation on vehicle maintenance file compliance, driver vehicle inspection reporting, annual inspections, and…