Safety Manager -Regional Distribution Center - Oconomowoc, WI
Posted Sep 10, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a time you reduced injuries at a site. What did the data show, and what did you change?
What they are checking: Whether they use injury and near-miss data to target real causes and can show a result that lasted.
Tell me about a time you got frontline team members to take ownership of safety instead of seeing it as a rule from management.
What they are checking: Whether they can build a safety culture through involvement and trust, not only enforcement.
How do you train and coach leaders in the building to coach safety on their own shifts?
What they are checking: Whether they multiply their reach through operations leaders, since one safety manager cannot be on every shift.
What would you do
Working in Risk Management, you balance proactive protection with real-time mitigation. How would you spend your first 90 days at the Oconomowoc regional distribution center?
What they are checking: Whether they learn the building, its data and its people before launching programs, and can still act fast on serious hazards.
An operations manager wants to skip a safety step to make the truck schedule during peak. How do you handle it?
What they are checking: Whether they can hold the line on safety while understanding operations pressure and offering a workable alternative.
A team member tells you they were hurt last week but did not report it because they were worried about their attendance record. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they get care for the person, fix the reporting barrier and treat underreporting as a system problem.
About the work
Which OSHA standards come up most often in a large distribution center, and how do you make sure the building stays compliant?
What they are checking: Whether they know powered industrial trucks, ergonomics, lockout, walking surfaces and recordkeeping rules well enough to apply them.
How do you investigate an injury so you find the root cause instead of just blaming the person who got hurt?
What they are checking: Whether they look at systems, training and design, which is what prevents the next injury.
Ergonomic strains are common in distribution work. How would you reduce them in a building that moves heavy freight all day?
What they are checking: Whether they know practical controls like job rotation, lift assists and workstation design, not just posters about lifting.
How do you work with claims, insurance and finance partners on workers' compensation cases?
What they are checking: Whether they understand how injury management, return-to-work and cost connect across the risk team.
What leading indicators would you track, and why are they more useful than recordable rates alone?
What they are checking: Whether they manage risk before injuries happen using near misses, audits and observations rather than lagging numbers.
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