Safety Cordinator
The Safety Coordinator is responsible for all aspects of safety and training in the facility.
Staff Mid-America is seeking a dependable and detail-oriented Safety Coordinator to oversee workplace safety, employee training, and compliance procedures at a food-processing facility. This position plays an important role in maintaining a safe work environment, conducting inspections, coordinating safety meetings, and ensuring employees follow established safety procedures.
The ideal candidate is organized, comfortable working in a production environment, and able to communicate safety expectations clearly. Bilingual candidates are preferred.
Tasks:
Chemical Safety: Audit workplace chemicals, maintain an up-to-date Safety Data Sheet (SDS) book, ensure proper chemical labeling, and provide chemical mixing training as needed.
Safety Meetings: Conduct monthly employee safety meetings and lead monthly safety committee meetings.
Daily Safety Walkthroughs: Inspect personal protective equipment (PPE), ergonomics, eyewash stations, and other workplace safety conditions. Submit work orders when corrective action is needed.
Employee Training: Conduct training as needed for lockout/tagout, forklifts, pallet jacks, fall protection, Job Safety Analysis (JSA), and other safety procedures.
Facility Inspections: Complete routine facility inspections and ensure near-miss reports are submitted, documented, and tracked.
Emergency Preparedness: Assist with annual evacuation drills and emergency preparedness activities.
New Hire Orientation: Provide safety orientation and training for new employees as needed.
Incident Investigations: Work with supervisors to investigate workplace incidents and accidents, document findings, and support corrective actions.
Employee Support: Coordinate physical therapy appointments with providers and distribute related results through appropriate confidential procedures.
Recordkeeping: Maintain accurate safety records, training documentation, inspection reports, and other required records using Excel, Word, Outlook, and internal workflow or scanning systems.
Additional Duties: Complete required processing, quality, maintenance, and safety documentation and perform other assigned duties as needed.
Physical Demands:
• Must be able to verbally understand and execute work Instructions.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, walk, reach. Stoop, kneel, crouch,
and ascending / descending stairs.
• Specific visual abilities required by this job may also include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, and
ability to adjust focus.
• Fill out required Processing, Quality, and/or Maintenance Documents.
Work Environment:
• Exposures to temperatures of an average of 38 to 28 degrees depending on the work assignment.
• The employee may encounter wet floors and/or damp areas.
• The employee will encounter meat products including blood/fat pieces.
• Bilingual preferred.
Safety:
• The employee is required to follow all safety rules in place at the time of employment and encouraged to inform management of any perceived safety deficiencies.