Safety Coordinator - 1st Shift

About the role

The Health, Safety & Environmental (HSE) Coordinator supports the HSE Manager in developing, implementing, maintaining and enforcing workplace safety programs to minimize injuries, eliminate hazards, and ensure regulatory compliance at their assigned site. This includes training and supporting team members in their roles, as well as promoting, influencing and role modeling high standards of a positive safety culture for the Company.

Responsibilities

• Assist in developing, updating, and implementing corporate health and safety policies and procedures.
• Provide recommendations for safety programs and initiatives.
• Ensure compliance with Local, State and Federal (OSHA, EPA, etc), and other regulatory requirements.
• Maintain records of safety inspections, audits, and compliance reports.
• Intervene in unsafe activities or operations.
• Coordinate, conduct and track employee safety training programs.
• Assist in developing safety training materials and scheduling training sessions.
• Ensure new employees receive proper health and safety orientation.
• Maintain records of workplace incidents, near misses, and safety violations.
• Support incident investigations by collecting data and preparing reports, up to and including identifying root causes and contributing causes with cross departmental teams.
• Assist in implementing corrective actions to prevent future incidents.
• Organize safety meetings, maintain agendas, and track follow-up actions.
• Conduct, lead and facilitate periodic plant safety and health walks, audits and inspections.
• Accurately and thoroughly maintain and update safety records, logs, and databases, including but not limited to the Learning Management Platform and Safety Tracking System in current use.
• Prepare safety reports and metrics for management review.
• Assist in the preparation of compliance reports and regulatory submissions, including but not limited to OSHA and Worker’s Compensation reporting.
• Ensures safety compliance by maintaining a safe work environment and ensuring that all safety regulations and procedures are followed.
• Collaborates with Management, Engineering and Maintenance to continuously improve processes, procedures and methods, seeking optimal efficiency and productivity with safety as the highest priority.
• Follows all Food Safety and Safety Procedures and Rules.
• Maintains a clean and orderly work area.
• Other assigned duties, as needed.

Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions. Duties may be repetitive in nature. Must be able to lift up to 30 pounds on an infrequent basis. Position requires the ability to sit for extended periods of time, stand, walk, type, use hands to handle, feel and select objects (manual dexterity), grip, frequently reach with hands and arms, bend, twist, sit, stoop, kneel, crouch, see, talk and hear. Specific vision abilities required for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perceptions, and the ability to adjust focus.

A manufacturing facility, requiring frequent visits to the production floor, warehouse, maintenance, and office areas. Sitting at a workstation for extended