Corporate Safety Manager

**Company Background**

Donald’s Fine Foods is a family-owned business that has operated for over 30 years. We are a specialty meat processing and distribution company spanning six plants in Alberta, British Columbia and Saskatchewan, serving both domestic and international markets.

**Company Values**
- **Customer Focus -**Exceptional customer service is the measure of our success.
- **Integrity -**Fairness, honesty, responsibility and trust mark every relationship inside and outside of the Company.
- **People -**We treat our employees, customers, suppliers and the community with respect.
- **Quality**- Uncompromising standards in everything we do.
- **Safety**- We care about our people and emphasize a culture of safety throughout our Company.

**Brief Job Description**

Reporting to the VP Human Resources, you will be responsible for overseeing daily Health & Safety operations for the British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan facilities.

**Responsibilities**
- Driving prevention strategies for incident reduction through policy and continuous improvement.
- Developing a culture that proactively anticipates hazards and corrects unsafe conditions/actions,
- Fosters employee engagement through positive reinforcement, behavioural based observations, safety talks, and situational awareness coaching and training.
- Providing appropriate and required training and guidance in obtaining safe operations in protecting workers, contractors, visitors, and the general public (i.e. safety equipment usage, ergonomics, LOTO, Behavioural Based Safety Training, etc.
- Ensuring Company compliance by remaining current and interpreting applicable laws, regulations, and standards.
- Focusses 30% of time in the field to assist operations in driving safety continuous improvements and compliance, makes recommendations for improvements and providing risk assessments to managers and leaders of business operations.
- Responds to regulatory concerns and emergencies as required, leading investigations in conjunction with the Supervisory team, and ensuring proper recordkeeping for those events of high severity potential or resulting in injury.
- Administering the site Health & Safety Management System including training, manuals, programs, compliance calendars, industrial hygiene surveys, etc.
- Maintains the Health & Safety certifications necessary to be abreast of trends, legislation, and best practices.
- Performing audits and reporting, ensuring corrective action and operational compliance.
- Performs accident investigation and incident analysis and ensures corrective actions are completed.
- Managing the occupational disability management.
- Contractor vetting and safety management as per contractual agreements.
- Focuses on set daily, weekly and annual prevention goal targets.
- Other duties as assigned.

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**Responsibilities**
- Safety_
- Leads Company initiatives to develop and maintain EHS strategic direction and objectives.
- Implements/facilitates safety strategies for both sites.
- Ensures compliance with legislative requirements and applicable standards, provides guidance on policies and regulations, drafts and conducts related training as needed.
- Maintains a working knowledge of Company policies, supports management and frontline managers/supervisors.
- Facilitates safety investigation processes, provides related training and support.
- Conducts safety reviews semi annually, annually, or as needed.
- Coordinates necessary Corp 12-point safety training initiatives e.g., LOTO, confined space, first aid/CPR, etc.
- Builds site job hazard analysis booklets, updates items annually and as needed, ensures related training is conducted.
- Engages and supports Company Health and Wellness initiatives.
- Can balance business needs and Health & Safety requirements in a cost-effective manner.
- Communication _
- Develops, updates and maintains safety policies, procedures, protocols and practices inline with the Company’s core values and strategic direction.
- Ensures execution of all Company programs (awards and recognition, etc.).
- Updates and develops safety communication strategies, alerts and informational postings, communicates changes and updates as required.
- Partners with corporate safety, other safety professionals internal and external to the company, vendors, and regulatory agencies for technical interpretation.
- Ensures an open professional collaborative communication style with all key business partners (i.e. Executive Team, Managers, Human Resource Professionals, etc.) throughout the organization.
- Reporting_
- Reports and documents incidents, ensures proper regulatory reporting occurs.
- Partners with the Company claims management party, ensures reporting and employee follow up is occurring.
- Performs risk assessments and applies hierarchy of controls, identifies and reports gaps and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Documents and remedies matter on site as items arise, communicates noncompliance with code