Food and ag processing, machinery, metals, plastics, and the logistics network that moves it all — the Midwest manufacturing belt is where I’m from, where I’ve run operations, and where most of my on-site work happens.
The typical call isn’t one plant — it’s three: an Iowa headquarters facility, a bolt-on in Illinois, a distribution site in Wisconsin, each with its own habits, its own coordinator, and its own version of “how we do safety.” The fractional model was built for exactly this shape: one senior leader, one standard, site-level execution support, and a governance cadence that keeps every location honest without a director’s salary at each address.
Eastern Iowa, western Illinois, and southern Wisconsin are regular driving territory — see the dedicated Iowa, Quad Cities, Illinois, and Wisconsin pages.
Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio run on concentrated multi-day on-site blocks plus continuous remote governance — the cadence multi-site companies use for any senior function.
The Midwest mixes federal-OSHA states with state plans — Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan each run their own. One program, state-specific overlays, no surprises at inspection time.
National consulting firms serve the Midwest from wherever their bench happens to sit. I serve it from inside it — the labor markets your plants hire from, the carriers that quote this region, the winters that change your slip-and-fall profile, and the customer audit regimes your OEM contracts drag in. Regional knowledge isn’t a marketing line; it’s response time and context.
On-site cadences run across Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. The engagement structure — how much on-site versus remote — is set by each site’s risk profile, not by a mileage chart.
The same way a corporate EHS director does: standards and governance held centrally, execution owned locally, verified on a rotating on-site cadence. Most multi-site engagements pair me with a coordinator or strong supervisor at each location — developed, not bypassed.
Iowa, Minnesota, and Michigan operate state plans covering private-sector workplaces; Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana, and Ohio private employers fall under federal OSHA. Multi-state footprints need a program written once and mapped to each regulator.
Sketch the footprint and the pressure points. You’ll get an honest read on the right structure — including whether you need me at all.
State-specific requirements, not a swapped city name. State-plan states have obligations federal OSHA never wrote.
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