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Safety Management

Location:
Colonial Heights, VA
Posted:
April 15, 2014

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Keith F. Spafford

**** ********** **, ************, ** 23838

804-***-****

acdo08@r.postjobfree.com

Experienced professional with a proven career in safety and environmental

Profile Summary

management and loss control in manufacturing, warehousing, and construction.

Excel at interfacing with others at all levels to ensure organizational goals are attained.

Proactive team approach has resulted in lowering incident rates and worker’s

compensation costs consistently.

Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.

Exceeds within highly competitive environments where effective leadership skills are

the keys to success.

Passionate about the safety and the care and well-being of others.

Experienced safety instructor; authorized OSHA 10/30 instructor for the Construction

Industry as well as many other subjects.

Safety Employment COLONIALWEBB CONTRACTORS CO., Richmond, Virginia 2006 - Present

M echanical Contractor, HVAC Service, Industrial

R efrigeration, and Manufacturing

Safety & R isk Manager

Upper level management position accountable for administrating the

safety program and insurance coverage’s.

Developed strategy & tactic plans to reduce incident rates and lower

worker’s compensation and auto coverage’s in manufacturing, delivery,

construction, HVAC service, and industrial refrigeration.

Devise and implemented innovative safety marketing principles and

training programs to support internal continuous improvement.

Counsel high ranking management with regard to culture sustainment,

improvement opportunities, risk & hazard analysis, and severity

elimination.

Organized the corporate safety council; provided technical expertise and

guidance for culture sustainment and improvement .

Develop and deliver the vast majority of safety training to sustain the

knowledge base of all workers to support the safety program .

H ighlights:

Develop and flourish a corporate safety council.

Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals.

Establish a cadre of certified safety training instructors from within

the company to maintain annual training requirements and

certifications.

Established Site Safety Coordinators for large construction sites.

Instituted continuous improvement in safety culture.

Improved observation program for behavior based safety by

implementing and utilizing Predictive Solutions software.

Created a team atmosphere with all traded on construction sites.

Lowered incident rate by 60% and severity by 90% in three years.

2002 - 2006

FIREMANS FUND INSURANCE, Glen Allen, VA

C ommercial, Residential, and Specialty Insurance

Senior Loss Control

Gather data for potential insurability from manufacturing, construction

fleet, resorts, golf courses, warehousing, marinas, and others.

Analyzed facts to determine risks of potential insured .

Formulate plan of action for insuring risks with covenants and

recommendations.

Counseled clients with high value property (Highly Protected Risks)

Conduct safety and risk training for clients.

Coached owners on potential risks and risk reduction.

H ighlights:

Assisted in development of new insured appetite and developed

guidelines for company loss control instructions.

Developed a strategic plan for new business based clients including

manufacturing, large vessel water side piers, golf resorts, large vehicle

fleets, and fire protection.

Provide safety training to clients. 2000 – 2002

HANOVER COUNTY, Hanover, Virginia

U tility’s, Human Services, Police, Fire, Rescue, Schools

Safety & Ris k Manager

Develop strategy and tactics to reduce incident rates and lower worker’s

compensation in fleet, utilities, law enforcement, fire and rescue, facility

maintenance, parks and recreation, landfill, water and sewer plants,

vehicle maintenance, and department of health.

Counsel high ranking County management with regard to culture

sustainment, improvement opportunities, risk & hazard analysis, and

severity elimination.

Work with multiple departments within the County structure to ensure

safety training and knowledge was maintained at a high level.

Oversee constructions projects for safety compliance.

Analyzed trends and losses and develop actions items to control

shortfalls.

H i ghlights:

Improved confined space entry methods.

Developed a fleet safety plan to control losses.

Worked with police, fire and rescue for safety on the job and fleet 1999 – 2000

safety.

Lowered incident rates and worker’s compensation costs by 40% in

two years.

Instituted fleet safety program resulting in lowered incident rate

LOSS CONTROL CONSULTANT, Chesterfield, Virginia

I nsurance Coverage Assessment, Safety Training

L oss Control

Performed insurability analysis for multiple large insurance clients

including manufacturing, fleets, construction, warehousing, pre-

manufactured homes, coal mines and supporting operations, tree

trimming and logging.

Interfaced with multiple underwriters of major insurance firms to

design coverage’s for their clients.

Delivered safety and fire prevention training to multiple clients.

Counseled clients and high value property (Highly Protected Risks)

owners on potential risks and risk reduction.

H ighlights:

Develop and flourish the company safety committees.

Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals

MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL AMERICA, INC., Chesapeake, Virginia 1989 – 1999

C hemical, Specialty Coatings, U ltra - Pure Chemicals, B uilding

M aterials, Medical R&D, Printing Machinery, L ithography,

P VC Extrusion, Rare Earth Metals, Polymers

D irector Environmental & Safety Affairs

High-profile management position accountable for management of the

U.S corporate operations safety and environmental programs and

insurance coverage’s.

Managed a staff of 10 safety and environmental professional’s country

wide.

Coordinate 15 safety and environmental professionals at local

operations country wide in chemical manufacturing facilities, extrusion

plants, laboratories, research and development operations, electronic

storage media, fleets, assembly plants, process safety management

facility’s.

Prepared budgets and controlled costs.

Main team member of acquisitions and dispositions – safety and

environment due diligence.

Process Safety Management

H ighlights:

Provided design input of new grass roots facilities for state of the art

safety and environmental controls.

Developed all training programs and delivered the vast majority of

the training.

Established a safety internship program with Old Dominion

University, Norfolk, VA

Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals.

Very successfully controlled the costs of Worker’s Compensation

corporate wide lowering the costs and rates by 49% in less than two 1985 - 1989

years. And lowered the individual incident rates of all owned

companies.

Established significant recycling programs for environmental

protection.

DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, Richmond,

Virginia

S tate Disaster Planning, Mitigation, and Recovery

H azardous Materials Response Officer

Response to major chemical incidents in transportation and fixed

facility.

Managed the emergency response equipment for pre-major incidents.

Liaison with local, state, and federal agencies for incident responses.

Serve on Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) throughout

the state.

H ighlights:

Established and Developed regional hazardous material response

teams within select fire departments statewide.

Trained emergency first responders and seasoned hazardous material

responders in chemical incident mitigation.

Associate of Science in Fire Technology 1983

Education

O kaloosa - Walton Jr. College, Niceville, Florida

1980-1985

Safety and Risk Management studies (part time)

Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia

Hazardous Material Medical Response

1986

George Washington University, Washington DC

OSHA 30 2006

Training

OSHA 500 2014

OSHA 510 2013

OSHA 511 2013

Competent Person Refresher’s

Scaffolding Safety – ABC 2006 Refresher 2012

Trench and Excavation Competent Person Coble Trench 2012

Excavation Safety & Damage Prevention Celeritas Works 2009

Pipeline Awareness & Education Celeritas Works 2010

Fall Protection Competent Person Safety Update Environmental

Engineering Inc. 2011

Crane Awareness & Basic Rigger Environmental Engineering Inc 2011

NFPA 70E update GE Energy 2012

Aerial Lift Devices & Scissors Lifts VOSH 2012

Fall Protection VOSH 2006

Heavy Equipment Operator – Associated Training Services 2012

Ammonia Safety (Industrial Refrigeration) ASTI 2013

Supervisor Skills Gilbane 2011

Supervisory Safety Development Trainer - National Safety Council 2013

Many more, too many to list.



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