LaborMax Staffing is currently seeking three Regional Safety Specialists to join our team, one supporting each of our Eastern, Central, and Western Regions.
The Regional Safety Specialist is responsible for providing field-based safety support, hazard identification, injury prevention, and safety coaching throughout an assigned geographic region.
This position serves as the primary Safety partner to the Regional Vice President and regional operations team while reporting directly to the Safety Program Manager. The Regional Safety Specialist works closely with branch leadership, field employees, clients, the Workers' Compensation team, and other stakeholders to identify and reduce workplace risks.
The Regional Safety Specialist maintains a strong presence in branches and client worksites. The position conducts client worksite evaluations, supports new client and assignment reviews, investigates workplace incidents, delivers safety training, identifies hazards, tracks corrective actions, and helps regional and branch leaders improve safety performance.
The Regional Safety Specialist is not responsible for owning safety on behalf of Operations. Regional and branch leaders remain accountable for the safe operation of their businesses. The Regional Safety Specialist provides professional expertise, field support, coaching, tools, and accountability to help operational leaders meet those responsibilities.
General Responsibilities:
The Regional Safety Specialist reports directly to the Safety Program Manager, with a dotted line to the Regional Vice Presidents, or as otherwise directed.
The Regional Safety Specialist is expected to maintain a close working relationship with the Regional Vice President while preserving independent professional judgment regarding workplace safety.
When regional business priorities and significant safety concerns conflict, the Regional Safety Specialist is expected to escalate the matter to the Safety Program Manager.
Daily Operations Duties/Responsibilities:
Regional Safety Partnership
- Serve as the primary Safety partner for the assigned region.
- Develop a strong working relationship with the Regional Vice President and regional leadership team.
- Understand the region's operations, branches, clients, industries, job classifications, and significant risk exposures.
- Participate in regional operating meetings and business reviews as appropriate.
- Work with the Regional Vice President and Safety Program Manager to establish regional safety priorities.
- Provide regional leadership with timely information regarding significant incidents, emerging risks, recurring injury trends, and unresolved safety concerns.
- Help regional and branch leaders develop practical plans to improve safety performance.
- Support regional initiatives involving high-risk clients, assignments, or operations.
- Provide professional safety guidance while maintaining independent judgment regarding significant hazards and exposures.
Field Presence and Regional Coverage
- Maintain a regular and meaningful presence in branches and client worksites throughout the assigned region.
- Develop and maintain a field travel plan based on risk, claims activity, client needs, branch performance, and regional priorities.
- Prioritize field activity based on potential impact rather than geographic convenience or routine scheduling alone.
- Spend sufficient time observing actual work conditions and employee activities.
- Build relationships with branch employees, field employees, client contacts, and regional leadership.
- Identify differences between documented job requirements and the work employees are actually performing.
- Provide timely follow-up after field visits.
- Maintain accurate records of significant observations, findings, and actions.
Client Worksite Evaluations
- Conduct client worksite evaluations in accordance with company standards.
- Evaluate the actual work employees perform and the environment in which the work occurs.
- Review, as applicable:
- Job duties and essential functions
- Machinery and equipment
- Machine guarding
- Lockout/tagout exposures
- Powered industrial trucks
- Fall hazards
- Work-zone and traffic exposure
- Hazardous materials and chemical exposure
- Personal protective equipment
- Heat and cold exposure
- Confined spaces
- Ergonomic risks
- Required training and qualifications
- Emergency procedures
- Supervision
- Housekeeping
- Previous injury experience
- Other assignment-specific hazards
- Interview appropriate client and branch personnel to understand work practices and expectations.
- Observe employees performing assigned work when possible.
- Document identified hazards and required corrective actions.
- Communicate significant findings promptly to the appropriate branch, regional, and Safety leadership.
- Follow up to confirm corrective actions have been completed.
- Escalate significant unresolved hazards in accordance with company procedures.
New Client and Assignment Review
- Support the evaluation of prospective clients and new work assignments when safety review is required.
- Review proposed job duties and work environments.
- Identify high-risk activities or exposures requiring additional evaluation.
- Help determine whether appropriate training, supervision, PPE, and hazard controls are in place.
- Identify discrepancies between proposed job descriptions and actual work expectations.
- Recommend conditions, restrictions, additional controls, or further review before employees are assigned.
- Escalate assignments involving significant or unusual risk.
- Conduct follow-up evaluations when job duties, work environments, or client operations materially change.
High-Risk Client and Assignment Support
- Provide focused support to clients, branches, and assignments identified as having elevated risk.
- Conduct additional field observations and worksite evaluations when appropriate.
- Work with the Safety Program Manager and regional leadership to develop targeted improvement plans.
- Monitor implementation of required corrective actions.
- Evaluate whether identified controls are functioning in actual work conditions.
- Provide additional training or coaching where recurring issues exist.
- Recommend escalation when significant exposures remain unresolved.
Incident Response and Investigation
- Respond to workplace injuries, near misses, and other safety events within the assigned region as directed.
- Conduct or support incident investigations in accordance with company standards.
- Visit incident locations when the nature or severity of the event requires field investigation.
- Gather and preserve relevant information, including:
- Photographs and video
- Witness information
- Worksite conditions
- Equipment information
- Job procedures
- Training records
- PPE information
- Employee and client statements
- Other relevant evidence
- Identify immediate causes, root causes, and contributing factors.
- Avoid limiting investigations to employee behavior when work conditions, training, supervision, equipment, procedures, or other factors may have contributed.
- Develop practical corrective actions based on investigation findings.
- Communicate significant findings to the Safety Program Manager and appropriate regional leadership.
- Track assigned corrective actions through completion.
- Identify when lessons from an incident may apply to other branches, clients, or assignments.
Serious Incident Response
- Immediately escalate fatalities, hospitalizations, amputations, serious injuries, significant vehicle incidents, regulatory inspections, and other major events.
- Respond to serious incidents in person when directed or when immediate field presence is appropriate.
- Support the Director of Risk & Safety and Safety Program Manager during serious incident response.
- Help preserve evidence and document worksite conditions.
- Assist with witness identification and information gathering.
- Support communication with branch, regional, and client leadership.
- Follow established protocols regarding communication with regulatory agencies, legal counsel, insurance partners, and other external parties.
- Identify immediate hazards requiring action.
- Determine whether similar exposures may exist at other locations within the region.
- Support implementation of immediate and longer-term corrective measures.
Safety Observations and Employee Engagement
- Conduct meaningful field safety observations.
- Observe actual work practices and conditions.
- Engage employees in discussions about hazards, near misses, and opportunities for improvement.
- Reinforce safe work practices.
- Address unsafe conditions or practices appropriately.
- Encourage employees and managers to report hazards and near misses.
- Document significant findings.
- Identify recurring trends and communicate them to the Safety Program Manager.
- Follow up when observations require corrective action.
Safety Training and Coaching
- Deliver safety training to branch employees, field employees, regional leaders, and other appropriate audiences.
- Use company-approved training programs and materials.
- Adapt delivery to the audience and work environment without changing required safety standards.
- Provide focused training in response to:
- Injury trends
- Incident findings
- Worksite hazards
- New assignments
- Regulatory requirements
- Recurring unsafe practices
- Coach branch and regional leaders regarding their safety responsibilities.
- Help managers improve the quality of safety conversations with employees and clients.
- Evaluate whether training is being understood and applied in the field.
- Provide feedback to the Safety Program Manager regarding needed changes to training content or delivery.
Corrective Action Management
- Document corrective actions resulting from worksite evaluations, investigations, observations, and other safety activities.
- Ensure corrective actions clearly identify:
- The hazard or concern
- The required action
- The responsible party
- The expected completion date
- Follow up on open corrective actions.
- Verify completion when appropriate.
- Escalate overdue or inadequate responses.
- Evaluate whether completed actions effectively address the identified hazard.
- Provide regional leadership with visibility into significant open and overdue actions.
Claims and Injury Trend Response
- Work with the Safety Program Manager and Workers' Compensation team to understand injury trends within the assigned region.
- Review trends by branch, client, job classification, injury type, employee tenure, and other relevant factors.
- Conduct targeted field activity based on identified trends.
- Evaluate whether recurring claims indicate underlying worksite or operational issues.
- Develop or support focused prevention initiatives.
- Provide field information that may help the Risk team better understand the circumstances surrounding claims.
- Evaluate whether prevention initiatives are producing meaningful changes in field conditions and injury performance.
Branch Safety Support
- Serve as a safety resource for branch leadership.
- Help branches understand and execute company safety requirements.
- Provide guidance regarding:
- Injury prevention
- Worksite evaluations
- Employee safety orientation
- PPE
- Client safety concerns
- Incident response
- Corrective actions
- High-risk assignments
- Identify branches requiring additional support based on claims, field findings, or performance.
- Help branch leaders develop practical improvement plans.
- Reinforce that branch leaders remain accountable for daily safety execution.
Client Partnership
- Build professional relationships with appropriate client safety and operational contacts.
- Discuss identified hazards and corrective actions professionally and constructively.
- Help clients understand the company's safety expectations for assigned employees.
- Participate in client safety meetings when appropriate.
- Support resolution of worksite safety concerns.
- Recognize when a client issue requires escalation beyond the Regional Safety Specialist.
- Maintain professional independence when client or business pressures conflict with significant safety concerns.
Regional Safety Planning and Reporting
- Develop regional field activity plans in partnership with the Safety Program Manager and Regional Vice President.
- Prioritize activity based on:
- Serious injury potential
- Claims trends
- Client risk
- Branch performance
- New or changing assignments
- Corrective action status
- Regional business activity
- Maintain accurate records of safety activities, findings, and outcomes.
- Provide regular updates regarding:
- Significant incidents
- Worksite evaluations
- High-risk clients and assignments
- Open corrective actions
- Injury trends
- Branch support needs
- Emerging risks
- Participate in regular reviews with the Safety Program Manager and Regional Vice President.
- Recommend changes in priorities based on field conditions and performance.
Required Qualifications:
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Initiative to set and achieve performance goals
- Good analytic and negotiation skills
- Ability to cope with job pressures in changing environment
- Knowledge of all lower claim position responsibilities
- Detail oriented with ability to prioritize
- Reliable, predictable attendance within client service hours for the performance of this position
- Responsiveness to all internal and external claim needs
- Attention to detail and the ability to monitor and track claim development
- Strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize
- Ability to clearly communicate verbally and/or in writing
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education and/or Experience:
- High School Diploma or GED, required
- Associates in Risk Management or other insurance/claim related designations, preferred
- 3-5 years’ experience with the management of Workers’ Compensation claims and administration, required
Physical Demands and Abilities
The physical demands described here represent those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
- Ability to remain in a stationary position for extended periods
- Ability to regularly stand, walk, climb, and use hands to feel objects, tools, and controls.
- Frequent use of keyboard to enter data
- Occasional movement within the office to access files and supplies
- Regular interaction with staff
- Use of computer, phone, fax, copier, and standard office equipment
- Ability to lift or move 20 to 50 lbs.
- Visual acuity for reading and reviewing documents
- Ability to travel regularly to branch locations or client sites.
- Moderate noise level in the work environment
- Must be able to travel 75-90% or more as required, including overnight stays.
LaborMax Staffing offers a benefit package that includes health, life and dental insurance. Vacation is accrued and increased with the years of service. We have a business casual dress policy. We are committed to equal employment opportunity and compliance with all laws and regulations. Our policy is to provide employment, training, compensation, promotion and other conditions or opportunities of employment, without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, transgender, national origin, disability, genetic information, veteran or marital status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $75,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Education:
Experience:
- Management of Workers’ Compensation claims: 3 years (Preferred)
Work Location: Remote
