A fractional safety manager is an experienced Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) professional who runs the day-to-day of your safety program on a part-time or as-needed basis. Where a safety officer sets strategy and owns accountability, a safety manager is the one making it happen on the floor — running inspections, delivering training, keeping records audit-ready, and closing corrective actions before they become incidents.
It’s the right fit for companies that have the basics in place but lack the bandwidth to manage them consistently — manufacturers, contractors, warehousing and logistics operators, and fast-scaling firms where safety keeps slipping to the bottom of someone else’s to-do list. You get a dedicated outsourced safety manager sized to your risk, not another full-time salary.
Regular walkthroughs against OSHA and industry standards, hazard identification, and prioritized corrective-action tracking so nothing slips.
Scheduled training, new-hire onboarding, and toolbox talks that keep certifications current and crews engaged — delivered, not just documented.
OSHA 300/300A logs, training records, SDS management, and inspection documentation kept clean and ready for a regulator, insurer, or client audit.
A live corrective-action system with owners and due dates — closing the loop on findings so the same hazard doesn’t show up in next month’s inspection.
Root-cause investigation, reporting, and the corrective actions that keep the same incident from happening twice.
Keeping your written programs, JHAs, and procedures current as your operation, equipment, and regulations change — not frozen in a binder.
The fractional model lets you match the level of leadership to your actual risk — and scale it as you grow. Most companies need execution first.
Hands-on program management — the day-to-day: inspections, training, recordkeeping, and corrective actions. Best when you need execution and consistency.
Senior, strategic leadership — owning the program, setting direction, and answering to leadership, insurers, and clients. Best when you need a credible safety authority.
A salaried in-house leader. The right move once your headcount, risk, and complexity justify $130K+ all-in — and we’ll tell you honestly when you’re there.
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Manufacturing & industrial production
Construction & specialty trades
Warehousing, logistics & transportation
Energy & industrial services
Private-equity portfolio companies
Post-M&A integrations & fast-scaling firms
We assess your current program, open findings, and recordkeeping — and give you a clear, prioritized picture of what needs managing first.
We build the operating rhythm — inspection cadence, training calendar, and a live corrective-action log — and close the highest-risk gaps first.
We keep it running — reporting leading metrics to leadership every month so safety improves steadily instead of lurching from audit to audit.
See the full breakdown: what the first 90 days of a fractional EHS engagement look like →
Your fractional safety manager is a credentialed EHS professional with 20+ years across high-risk, compliance-driven industries — the judgment of a seasoned leader, applied to your day-to-day.
We manage through the systems you already run on, embed digital tools for tracking and reporting, and balance practical execution with the strategy to keep improving.
20+ years of industrial EHS leadership across chemical manufacturing, logistics, and warehousing. Harvard-trained strategist and partner at FractionalEHS.
A fractional safety manager runs the day-to-day of your EHS program on a part-time basis — site inspections, employee training, OSHA recordkeeping, incident investigation, and tracking corrective actions to closure. You get consistent program management without hiring a full-time safety manager.
A safety manager focuses on hands-on, day-to-day execution; a safety officer typically owns strategic direction and accountability for the program. Many clients start with a fractional safety manager for execution and add officer-level leadership as their risk and complexity grow.
Engagements are scoped to your operation — from a set number of days a month to a steady weekly presence. You pay for the level of management you need instead of a full-time salary plus benefits. We’ll give you a clear scope and price after an initial conversation.
Both. We’re based in Clinton, Iowa and serve companies across the U.S., managing programs remotely with on-site visits scheduled where they add the most value — inspections, training, and incident response.
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