Abha Bahl

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Morton Grove, IL 60053

www.linkedin.com/in/abhabahl

Home: 224-***-**** acd0xk@r.postjobfree.com Cell: 847-***-****

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

Highly detailed/results driven Environmental Health and Safety (EHS)

professional with over 10 years of experience. Recognized in successful

simplification of complex EHS issues and mitigating risks. Specialized

skills include: Maintain compliance through application of pertinent

federal, state and local EHS regulations, perform comprehensive EHS audits,

conduct training and manage completion of environmental and corporate

sustainability reports.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Air Compliance Water Compliance Waste Compliance

EHS Training Safety Compliance EHS Metrics / KPIs

GHG Emissions EPCRA Reporting Auditing

COMPUTER SKILLS

MS Office Suite Environ RCM Software Dakota Auditor

Visio Enablon IBM Cognos

Lotus Suite Functionality and BPCS/EHSAM (Abbott)

Workflows

Interwoven Teamsite TRI-ME / Tier2Submit Peregrine Helpdesk

Webcentral (Baxter) Software (Baxter)

Concur (Abbott & Hospira) Clarity (Hospira) ISOTrain (Abbott &

Hospira)

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

HOSPIRA, Lake Forest, IL (Consultant through Kelly Technical Services)

2013 - Present

Global Pharma R&D EHS Staff Officer

Provide ongoing support and implementation of all EHS programs covering

seven functional areas within R&D organization, comprising of approximately

550 employees.

. Support EHS Manager in the following: air, water, waste, safety, IH, DOT,

NFPA, JSA, etc. for R&D - i.e., EHS incident management, Response to

spills, Emergency Preparedness, VPP, Safety Committee Meetings, RPP fit-

testing, EHS Reviews of equipment, New chemicals and processes.

. Conduct walk through of fire control areas ensuring compliance with

storage and usage of Flammable/Combustible Liquids in accordance with

NFPA and IBC requirements.

. Assist lab personnel on SDS Interpretation, Glove Selection and Chemical

Segregation.

. Maintain facility no-exposure to storm water certification by conducting

monthly site inspections.

. Coordinate completion of IEPA annual hazardous waste report by oversight

of waste vendor.

. Review IH monitoring results and notify employees on timely basis per IH

site plan. Ensure communication of results is conducted to all Similar

Exposure Groups (SEGs).

. Sustain EHS strategic plan, year end 2013 resulted in completion of 98%

of plan which exceeded goal of 90%.

. Provide instructor-led hazardous waste training and spill clean-up glove

training.

. Gather in excess of 1,000 MSDSs/SDSs for building to adhere to GHS

compliance.

. Execute ergonomic assessments of employee work stations.

. Complete targeted inspections every other month and issue findings report

to Corporate EHS.

. Manage monthly common area inspection program.

. Serve as Local Administrator and Validator for R&D Global EHS Incident

Management System.

. Perform and document PPE Hazard Assessments for all shops/lab areas.

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BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION, Deerfield, IL 2011 - 2012

Sr. EHS Operations Analyst, Corporate EHS

Central Administrator for EHS Management System (Enablon ); manipulated

extremely large data sets to obtain meaningful and useful metrics to EHS

Leadership Team; departmental support with other IT type issues including

Share Point site creation and maintenance, website design, EHS Performance

Report.

. Worked with Baxter IT in designing work-flows and functional

specifications for various modules of system.

. Verified and issued trends for VPs and Sr. Executives, obtaining an 'at-a-

glance' view of safety performance by preparation of ad hoc reports.

. Participated in Bureau of Veritas (3rd party verification) for safety

claims made in Baxter's CSR.

. Completed annual DJSI survey, OSHA Reports and BLS Surveys.

. Conducted New Employee Orientation for Baxter Northern IL employees as

necessary, acknowledging EHS at Baxter to all new and transferred

employees.

UNITED AIRLINES, World Headquarters, Elk Grove Village, IL 2009 - 2011

Sr. Staff Representative, Corporate Environmental Safety

Developed and launched highly visible company and customer Onboard

Recycling Program with United's catering and cabin service vendor partners.

Managed all environmental compliance for 28 airport stations (18 domestic

and 10 international) and supported all domestic stations for EPCRA

compliance.

. Developed business case and project timeline for launch of 4 phased

Onboard Recycling Program.

. Managed member of onboard service, provided assistance with caterer and

cabin service dealings, flight attendant communications and financials

supporting Onboard Recycling.

. Served as project manager for Onboard Recycling steering committee and

active member of working team.

. Participated in road show for all Flight Attendants and Purser Onboard

Recycling Communications

. Prepared 'How-to-recycle' document for caterers, aligning with United's

requirements and caterer contracts.

. Saved over $300K each year by acknowledging janitorial services vendor

contract language to recycle at Chicago Reservations Center with no

additional cost to United.

. Documented and calculated onboard galley waste footprint for 2010 - 2011

Sustainability Report

ABBOTT LABORATORIES, Abbott Park, IL 1997 - 2009

Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) Staff Specialist, Abbott Diagnostics

Division

Appointed Environmental Subject Matter Expert (SME) and resolved

environmental-related issues for ADD Lake County site. Provided EHS

generalist services and EHS training (air, water, waste, recycling, spill

response, PPE, ergonomics, MSDS / OSHA hazard communication, machine

guarding, electrical safety, LOTO, incident investigation / reporting, and

emergency preparedness) to over 1,000 employees

. Participated in cross-functional team launching reuse of Abbott's Dry and

Wet Ice Containers, corrugate with EPS (expanded polystyrene insert) and

coordinated reuse activities for Lake County site.

. Coordinated Phase I and II due diligence ESA.

. Prepared MON MACT compliance plan and NOCSR reports.

. Revised Title V permit by reducing 10-15 man hours and several

recordkeeping requirements.

. Saved offsite transportation and disposal costs of approximately $4K per

shipment of non-hazardous waste, by creating sewer discharge rate

calculator for non-hazardous waste products in excess of 250 liters,

discharging through onsite sanitary sewer system.

. Eliminated all requirements under US EPA's SPCC rule for division by

providing alternative to maintenance and engineering for oil containers.

EDUCATION/TRAINING

. BS, Chemical Engineering, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL

. LEED GA Training (Everblue Training Institute); IATA Dangerous Goods

Awareness (Certification);

. Fire Safety (Certification); First Aid/CPR/AED certified

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