I am a seasoned professional offering more than twenty-five years of extensive experience in Health and Safety. I have been applying my broad-based industry experience by working with construction managers, project managers, project accountants, discipline engineers and designers, as well as the quality assurance and other technical and support personnel. I am able to establish effective rapport with supervisors, colleagues, and subordinates and have hands-on knowledge of manufacturing and construction operations ranging from $3 million to $300 Million.
My prior positions have been challenging and provided me with both responsibility for reorganizing, restructuring and upgrading health and safety programs for cost-effective, cost efficient, and productive operations. Currently, I am seeking a new position with a firm that can benefit from my experience. During my time, I have established a record that I am quite proud.
• Recognized as one of “America’s Safety Companies†in 2004 by Occupational Health and Safety magazine at Packerland - Plainwell. Please copy and paste linked article below to your browser.
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• Responsible for reducing the Mid America regions worker safety ratio (WSR) from 1.07 to .76. Had success in reducing the Western Michigan Districts’ three-month WSR from 1.18 to .64; and the Mid-Michigan District from .95 to .42, and the Columbus Ohio District from .71 to .62 with Labor Ready.
• Received recognition for significantly reducing recordable injuries (greater than 50%) in both 2003 and 2004 by the National Safety Council of Michigan.
• Recognized for the greatest reduction of recordable injuries at a facility with more than one million man-hours annually in 2003 and 2004 also presented by National Safety Council of Michigan.
• Completed 30 months of environmental remediation contract work for the Department of Energy on UMTRA Projects with no recordable injuries.
Although my resume is enclosed, I would be able to provide to you additional pertinent information as to my capabilities and goals during a personal interview. I am free to relocate and / or travel and the compensation package is negotiable. I can be reached at the above address or by phone (602) 399-3715.
Sincerely,
Leigh H. Floyd
Leigh H. Floyd
1234 E. Hubbell St. Phoenix, Arizona 85006
Phone : 602–399-3715 • LinkedIn profile : http://www.linkedin.com/in/leighf
Professional Summary
This is what I bring to your table. I will build a world class Environmental, Health and Safety program and culture that will be powered by pro-active employee commitment and involvement. With Environmental, Health and Safety awareness and compliance that will reach beyond the work site. I can reduce your recordable injuries and increase your bottom line by reducing workers compensation expenditures. I am a proven liaison between regulators, management and employees.
Professional Experience
Site Safety Manager
Schuff Steel International
December, 2006 – Present
Project to include: Phoenix Civic Plaza Phase II, Arizona Casino, Dodgers & White Sox spring training facility, One South Park Place, Banner Children’s Hospital Tower, Covance (cancer research) and ASU PolyTech. Also provided support to fabrication facilities in Phoenix, Gilbert and Eloy AZ.
Accountable for daily safety oversight on steel erecting projects and crews. Provide coaching, training and mentoring to supervisors, foremen and work gangs. Perform safety audits, active member of site safety committee which assists all contractors and trades on site to maintain a safe work place. Have developed a team approach with AZ-OSHA and CAL-OSHA through partnering on safety.
Field Safety Director
Labor Ready, Inc.,
October 2005 to December 2006
Director for nine districts and 72 branch offices in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Indiana, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Arkansas,
Provide safety team development, coaching, mentoring to branch managers, customer service teams. I also managed the Health & Safety program for the district that covered approximately 6000 employees. Assisted the branch managers with site environmental and safety surveys follow-up of new, existing customers. Performed post-accident investigations and case management for all Workers’ Compensation claims in the districts. State OSHA plans and federal OSHA guidelines through training sessions, testing and audits. Work directly with customers to develop safety procedures, policies, hazard analysis and prevention methods. Managed DOT compliance program in all districts.
Owners Safety Representative to General Motors
DCP, Inc., and the Washington Group at GM Truck Plant, Pontiac, Mich.
April to August 2005
Oversaw all contractor activities, represented GM in all pre-task planning meetings.
Reviewed rejected or approved written environmental safe work procedures required by GM for every step and phase of project. Responsibilities included demolition through start-up.
Occupational Safety Director
Packerland-Plainwell, Inc., Smithfield Beef Group, Plainwell, Mich.
June 2002 to February 2005
Director for all MIOSHA compliance issues in 24/7 operation with 1,250 employees, 2.5 million annual hours. Responsible for writing safety program and policies. I trained mentored and coached Department Heads and their superintendents and managers on the implementation through enforcement of the new safety program. Developed facility-wide emergency action plan; oversaw process safety management. Managed and trained haz/mat/confined space recovery teams capable of responding to all site related emergency events.
This cutting edge safety process reduced recordable accidents by 50% in 2002, (428 to 211) in 2003, 47% (211 to 115)and 51% in 2004 (115 to 48). I developed incident investigation process focusing on root cause and elimination of hazard recurrence. I also trained managers, supervisors, lead persons in hazard identification, corrective action. I started new programs that significantly reduced ergonomic injuries and cuts. I Facilitated extremely active employee safety committee that earned awards from the West Michigan Safety Council also served as an Active Member Allegan LEPC Executive Council. I developed a positive relationship with MI-OSHA regulators.
Project Safety Representative,
AZCO, Inc., Integrated Construction
Grand Rapids, Mich. and Appleton, Wis.
September 2001 to June 2002
Responsible for new-hire site safety, orientations including fall protection, lockout/tagout, and powered man lift. Provided the same services for power plants, metal fabrication shops, paper mills. Performed daily site inspections, audits, enforced site safety plan, completed incident investigations and corrective action Member of site safety committee with all trades and owner’s representatives. Oversaw environmental and DOT compliance during excavation, transport, disposal of 3,780 yards of regulated urban Brownfield contaminated soils. Wrote, updated corporate safety practices.
Safety Director
Dar-Hill Construction, Tucson, Ariz.
September 1999 to September 2001
Responsible for safety at construction sites on Military insulations. Developed work zones for heavy highway and underground utility contractor. Organized traffic plans, utility location service, right-of-way permitting, safe-worker training, haz/com program, high-low-voltage electrical site safety plans, insurance incident investigations. Customers also included city, county, state, school districts and other federal agencies.
Site Safety Officer
Hunt Building Corp. Ft. Huachuca, Ariz.
July 1998 to September 1999
Accountable for daily project safety operations under contract with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 60 family-housing units including ACM removal. Demolition to including hazard analysis for every phase of work, and trade. Responsible for daily enforcement of trade-specific safety plans such as fall protection. Also accountable for weekly regulatory contract reporting including site safety inspections, weekly storm-water discharge reporting and OSHA 200 log.
Safety Director
Hernandez Companies
Phoenix, Ariz.
April 1997 to September 1998
Responsibilities for large, high-tech manufacturing facility included regular inspections at Allied-Signal, Motorola facilities, and all ongoing facility-maintenance contracts.
Conducted OSHA-certified training of 273 (10 Hour) construction tradesmen and employees.
Responsible for high- low-voltage electrical safe work practices, lockout/tagout.
Reduced E-Mod 23%. Oversaw 932,193 hours with one reportable incident.
Added 19 OSHA-recognized (30 hour) competent persons to construction staff.
Operations Manager, Project Manager, Haz/Mat Supervisor
Sierra Vista, Ariz., and contract locations
October 1981 to October 1997
Performed contract work for private companies and under contract with federal and state on Superfund sites as well as DOE - UMTRA, Brownfield, ERCs and UST cleanup sites. Oversaw all phases of the projects. Responsible for performance profitability including waste management, minimization, compliance with DOT guidelines and disposal of all classes of waste materials. Installed and monitored soil and ground water treatment systems. Clients included: USFS, BLM, Halliburton, the Western Company, El Paso Natural Gas, Oklahoma Gas and Electric and Public Service Company of New Mexico. Site specific/regional and corporate reporting performed for Halliburton during remediation projects. Reported to verbally and in writing when require to Local, State and Federal agencies and permitting was completed as required to maintain compliance
Education, Memberships, Certifications
OSHA 500 outreach trainer, Findley University, 1997
B.S, Occupational Safety, Suffield University, 2005.
Member, American Society of Safety Engineers # 63660
Registered Environmental Manager (REM8190-expired), National Registry of
Environmental Managers
CAL-OSHA compliance
Accident Investigations
Asbestos
Confined Space Entry
DOT program management
Electrical Safety
Emergency Action Planning
Ergonomics
Excavation and Trench Safety
Fall Protection
Hazard Awareness
Hazardous Communication
HAZWOPER (40-hour)
Hearing Conservation
Laboratory Safety
Lockout/Tagout
Personal Protective Equipment
Powered Industrial Truck (forklift)
Process Safety (PSM) and Risk Management
Respiratory Protection Program
Safety Committee
Scaffolding
Traffic Plan (City streets and Highway) Coordination
Achievements and Awards
Teamed in reducing Area Mid Americas worker safety ratio (WSR) from 1.07 to .76 a 29% improvement in a 6-month period. WSR – comparable to E-mod.
Allegan County, Michigan, Local Emergency Planning Committee (LEPC) appointed by Governor Jennifer Granholm 2003 - 2006
The Western Michigan Districts’ three-month WSR from 1.18 to .64; Mid-Michigan District from .95 to .42, Columbus District from .71 to .62.
Packerland-Plainwell was recognized as one of America’s safest companies by Occupational Hazards magazine in 2004. The first and only meat-processing facility to receive this honor.
Please copy and paste to your browser the following article: http://www.occupationalhazards.com/Issue/Article/37220/Safety_is_a_Way_of_Life_at_Americas_Safest_Companies.aspx
Packerland-Plainwell received National Safety Council of Michigan awards in 2003 and 2004 for significantly reducing recordable injuries and the being facility with the greatest reduction in recordable injuries for facilities with 1,000,000 or more hours.
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