Senior Regional Safety Manager
Posted Aug 24, 2026 · We last checked this listing on Oct 6, 2026
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About your past
Tell me about a warehouse safety program you managed. What changed in your results because of it?
What they are checking: Whether they can point to real improvements in injury rates or near misses that came from their own program decisions.
Tell me about a time an operations leader resisted a safety change because it would slow productivity.
What they are checking: Whether they can win operations leaders over with data and practical options instead of relying only on authority.
How do you lead and develop a team of safety personnel spread across sites you only visit periodically?
What they are checking: Whether they can build capable, independent safety people who keep standards high when the manager is not on site.
How do you make safety follow-up timely when requests come in from many sites at once?
What they are checking: Whether they have a tracking system so concerns raised by employees never go unanswered and erode trust.
What would you do
One building in your region has consistently worse safety numbers than the others. How do you figure out why?
What they are checking: Whether they dig into root causes like training, staffing or leadership instead of simply pushing the site harder.
Corporate Safety rolls out a network-wide program that doesn't fit how one of your sites works. What do you do?
What they are checking: Whether they implement consistently while feeding real problems back to Corporate rather than quietly letting the site skip it.
Walk me through your response when a serious injury happens at one of your warehouses.
What they are checking: Whether they handle care, reporting, investigation and prevention in the right order and treat it as a chance to learn.
About the work
How do you set annual safety goals for a region, and which measures do you watch besides recordable injuries?
What they are checking: Whether they use leading indicators like near misses and audit findings, not only lagging numbers that show up after someone is hurt.
Walk me through how you run a warehouse safety audit at a site you're visiting for the first time.
What they are checking: Whether they have a structured approach to spotting hazards like forklift traffic, racking and dock safety, and to following up.
Which OSHA standards come up most often in warehouse operations, and how do you keep sites compliant with them?
What they are checking: Whether their OSHA knowledge is practical and specific to powered industrial trucks, walking surfaces and recordkeeping in distribution.
What role has workers' compensation played in your past safety work?
What they are checking: Whether they connect injury management and return-to-work to the safety program, which the posting lists as a plus.
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