What type of person could be successful at Foster in this role?You are self-motivated. You think like an entrepreneur, constantly innovating and driving positive change, but more importantly you consistently deliver mind-boggling results! You love people, processes, and performance. You believe in the power of team and are driven by a sincere desire to see others succeed. You are a change agent, live culture, and believe in community. You seek collaboration to find the best answers and are not afraid to take calculated risk. You are hardworking and always put your safety, and the safety of those around you FIRST!

What Youll Do:

• Be an active member of an epically awesome team!
• Live out our culture of People. Food. Together.
• Deliver on a variety of functional and strategic Safety initiatives.
• Drive change to streamline processes and find new ways/better ways of executing tactical Safety Operations.
• Care so much for our people that you refuse to allow them to be unsafe.
• Work in a way that is collaborative, inclusive, and consistently cool.
• Help design and deploy innovative ways to develop safe leaders.

What Youll Bring to the Table:

• A sincere passion for positively impacting people and making work, fun (this is first on the list for a reason!)
• Insightful, meaningful, relevant relationship skills
• A proven track record of being a bad*@# safety practitioner
• A hunger to learn and grow
• Creative new ideas on how we can better serve our people
• An extreme sense of ownership (meaning you treat every person, every function, everything as if you were the owner of this company)
• Commitment, loyalty, integrity, compassion, empathy and patience.
• A proven skill set, and knowledge base of people related laws and practice.

Specific Responsibilities:

Inspects and ensures facilities, vehicles and equipment are free of safety, health and environment risks, as well as SQF (Safe Quality Food) responsibilities.

Conducts training on equipment (forklift, pallet jacks, dollies, vehicles, compactors, etc) for new hires, as well as reoccurring training on a specified time frame.

Heads a safety team consisting of employees at various levels which has regular meetings, analyzes accidents and situations, provides remedies as well as proactive processes to prevent accidents.

Teaches, trains and helps develop emerging leaders on accident prevention, conducting accident investigations, and completing necessary processes/procedures.

Conducts thorough accident investigations, determines root causes, and creates preventative measures to mitigate accidents in the future.

Creates/prepares training and implementation of processes for emergency actions needed, workplace safety, bloodborne pathogen exposure/cleanup/vendor process, evacuation, and such.

Maintains meticulous records regarding accidents, reportable, recordable, lost time and such for OSHA reporting.

Works with leadership in a collaborative way to deliver results, find solutions that work for the business, and make us a safer organization.

Develops programs to assist injured workers to return to work in a timely and efficient manner as well as transitional duty.

Responsible to monitor and reduce such metrics as DART, AFT, etc.

Ensure all needed SDS/MSDS sheets are onsite, locations identified on facility maps, and available to all employees and that all employees are properly trained.

Conducts audits with various positions to ensure safety practices are in place and expectations are met (driver ride-alongs, loader shadowing, forklift shadowing, etc).

Prepares and presents frequent safety related data and pattern analysis to designated groups.

Creates incentive initiatives to keep employees focused on safe practices and a safe working environment.

Works with contracted Safety resource(s) to stay current on trends, training, and analytics.

Continually t ains and educates all levels on preventive measures as well as new practices/procedures to ensure awareness.

Understands DOT regulations/hours of service, monitors compliance, and special circumstances that arise within transportation.

Schedules outside auditors and represents the company in various audits (SQF/HACCP/NCDA/etc) to maintain compliance.

Actively works and engages in Worker's Compensation claims/situations; Claims management.

Ensure OSHA compliance in all faucets of the business; respond to any complaints, maintain accurate logs and postings as required.

Conduct Safety Training - to be covered during huddles/team meetings at all sites/all shifts, materials to be created and distributed, acknowledgment forms received and verified.

Audit effectiveness of training to ensure information is received, retained and implemented.

Driver ride-along when needed with full safety ride analysis, communication to transportation leadership, and action plan for marked opportunity.

Ensure every accident/incident is fully investigated, root cause identified, accountability distributed, and retraining conducted (24 hour for initial report)

Weekly report - prior week activity, accidents, issues, hazards identified, claims, accident recaps, meetings held, topics, outstanding claims, payments made/reserves, list of employees off with expected return dates, DART, Incident/Accident rates, etc.

Weekly - audit of warehouse for hazards; Safety meetings with Safety Team; Truck inspections (1-2 a week, rotating, continually inspect fleet); calls/check-ins with those currently off work.

Monthly - Audit of docks (CLT/GSO) for safety issues/hazards; Safety drill (tornado, fire, etc) preparedness; Warehouse employee shadowing - Job Shadow (Each Operational Role at Each Facility i.e. Repack, Receiving, Loader, Picker, Replenisher once per month per position) with full safety analysis, communication to operations leaders