Safety Manager

• Develop and maintain comprehensive safety programs to minimize risks and ensure compliance with regulations.
• Review employee safety programs, recommend and implement improvements and drive continuous improvements to maintain a safe work environment for all employees.
• Communicate safety policies to all employees and ensure they understand and adhere to them.
• Integrate and partner with the operations team to promote a proactive safety culture focused on incident prevention and regulatory compliance.
• Work with leadership team to ensure all key safety operational controls are in place and safety action items are resolved on a timely basis.
• Provide thorough safety training to employees at all levels, ensuring a complete understanding of the company's safety protocols and fostering a proactive safety culture.
• Provide new hire orientation outlining the company's high expectations regarding safety rules and regulations.
• Organize and participate in safety committee activities.
• Conduct thorough investigation and analysis of incidents, accidents, and near-misses, determining root causes and contributing factors. Generate detailed reports with recommendations for corrective action and continual improvement.
• Manage workers' compensation loss control program, which includes monitoring claim levels, reducing costs, and early return to work.
• Review plans and specifications for new machinery and equipment to ensure safety requirements are met.
• Provide safety analysis for new product development.
• Maintain safety database for incident reporting and investigations, audits and safety inspections, corrective and preventive safety actions and safety improvements and maintain safety data sheets (SDS) on the shared drive and SDS books as necessary.
• Ensure that federal, state and local safety laws, regulations, codes and rules are observed, and that OSHA recordkeeping and reporting requirements are met.
• Provides other safety related support as needed or requested.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Requires a bachelor's degree in Occupational health and safety, safety engineering or similar discipline and a minimum of 5 years of safety experience in an industrial environment.
• 30-hour OSHA certified, Certified Safety Professional or Associate Safety Professional.

About Kapco Metal Stamping

Kapco is known for investing in its people and creating a culture of engagement, and is equally as committed to giving back to the community. As an employee, you can expect a goal-oriented compensation structure, excellent benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance, 401K, Profit Sharing, Vacation, Paid Holidays, an Onsite Wellness Center and Gym Membership. Building on employees' skill sets and growing them as individuals is a top priority at Kapco. The Kacmarcik Center for Human Performance is focused specifically on delivering an exclusive and proprietary in-house training curriculum designed to develop employees along their career path.