Wisconsin runs one of the most manufacturing-intensive economies in the country — food and dairy processing, paper and converting, machinery, castings, and fabrication. Those industries share a hazard spine: ammonia refrigeration, sanitation chemistry, combustible dust, and serious machine energy.
Processors and converters carry process-safety-grade exposures — ammonia systems, dust collection, high-speed converting equipment — often with a safety function built for a simpler era of the company. Add federal OSHA’s emphasis programs for food processing and dust, plus customer and co-packer audit regimes, and mid-size Wisconsin manufacturers face enterprise-level expectations with a coordinator-level budget. That’s the gap I fill.
Southern Wisconsin — Madison, Janesville, Beloit, Milwaukee metro — runs on regular on-site blocks from my eastern Iowa base; statewide operations on concentrated multi-day visits plus remote governance.
CHMM-credentialed and fluent in the exposures that make food, dairy, and paper different: ammonia, chemical sanitation, combustible dust, and the change management they demand.
SQF-adjacent safety expectations, co-packer requirements, and customer audits — built into one program instead of bolted on before each visit.
Wisconsin manufacturers frequently operate sister plants in Iowa, Illinois, or Minnesota. The fractional structure gives the whole footprint one senior standard and one accountable leader — with state-specific overlays where regulators differ — at a fraction of a multi-site director’s cost.
Both, by design: on-site blocks scheduled to your operation’s rhythm — sanitation windows, shutdown weeks, audit season — with governance, coaching, and incident support running continuously in between.
Yes — ammonia systems trigger process safety obligations that scale with charge size, and “just under the threshold” systems still demand real management. I build the program to the exposure, not just the regulatory trigger, and flag where specialized mechanical integrity contractors are needed.
Yours, your customers’, and OSHA’s — simultaneously. Co-packing stacks audit regimes on top of regulation, and the sane answer is one program mapped to the strictest applicable requirement rather than a binder per customer.
Tell me what you process and what’s been keeping your plant manager up at night. You’ll get a straight answer about fit.
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