William Cobb

** **** ******** # * ************, AR 72701 479-***-**** acqpu9@r.postjobfree.com

Available for Relocation and Extensive Travel

Safety Manager/Director

Specializing in safety that compliments a company’s business strategy

Combine entrepreneurial drive with business-management skills to drive safety programs to be successful, reduce accidents, access risks and minimize Workmen’s Compensation Claims.

Communicate a clear, strategic safety vision, effectively train and coach both veteran and junior team members.

Cultivate excellent relationships with local, state and federal agencies to include intercompany departments.

Able to incorporate value to safety programs and prepare companies for a strong core valued safety cultural which complements the company’s business plan.

Skills

GSP (Graduate Safety Practitioner), CIHM (Certified Industrial Hygiene Manager), CPP (Certified Personal Protector), CVI (Chemical-terrorism Vulnerability Information), CET (Certified Environmental Technician)

OSHA/MSHA 30, 100, 500 Train the Trainer

Team Building

Fleet Transportation Safety

Media Interviewing

Customer Relationship Management

Staff Training & Development

Contract Negotiations

Budgeting & Forecasting

CPR and First Aid

ISO 14001 and 18001

DOT Hazardous Materials Shipper

DOT & EPA Hazmat Transportation

Public Relations

Professional Experience

Riceland Foods, Duke Energy, AEP, Quanta Services, AR, KS, LA, MI, MN, MS, OK, and TX

Area Safety Manager, 2008 to Present

I served as a key member in developing safety strategies. Formulate risk, fire, EPA and hazard analysis, fleet operations, ergonomic planning and safety strategies to decrease claims and increase revenue growth. Outcomes:

Received prestigious company award for having the lowest accident rate, handling advocate groups, eliminating risk, maintaining a positive company image in the community, and no NOV’s. The key to this success was reorganizing managerial and executive communication standards for ownership which allowed all 4,835 employees (non-union and union) to work as one safe team.

Authored safety training and tracking programs for hourly and management employees. Focusing on drivers, ergonomics, risk management, human performance, environmental, and security to refocus operations toward the primary safety goal of zero accidents. This process lowered the safety incident rate from 2.98 to 0.37 with 9.2 million man-hours worked, and no NOV’s.

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Maintained positive relationships between FMCSA, ASSE, ATA, NSC, OSHA, EPA, DOT, EEOC, DHS, FBI, ATF, ADEQ, LDEQ, TCEQ, FEMA, FDA and Corps of Engineers.

Revised struggling safety, environmental, fleet operations and maintenance center committees so that these operations would complement the company’s business plan.

EDG International/WPGS; AR, AZ, OK, and TX

Area Safety Director, 2007 to 2008

Area Safety Manager, 2006-2007

I was advanced to area safety director role to gain a better foothold on the company’s safety program. Added safety to the company’s business plan in a role that put safety as a company core value. Implemented the core value mythology for all 9 projects, safety staff and over 3,500 employees. Invented training programs that allowed employees to take ownership and pride in their safety program which reduced accidents and decreased Workmen’s Compensation Claims. Outcomes:

Wrote and implemented corporate safety, security, transportation, and environmental policies. This also included acquiring all permits and maintaining such permits through federal, state, and local agencies

Created an electronic reporting and tracking format for the safety, environmental, transportation, logistical, and construction departments. This process tracked how each department was accomplishing the company’s corporate safety mission and employee’s human performance levels.

Restored trust and working relationships between 57 safety staff and all company divisions.

Regained focus to the importance of having a strong company safety cultural to upper management and to all employees. Each employee must take ownership of the companies ‘safety program.

KBR and Department of State, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, North Africa

Operational Safety Manager, 2003 to 2006

Developed and trained employees for safety, environmental and security. These policies were constantly changing due to terrain and outside forces while still maintaining budget restraints. Coaching and mentoring these employees by earning their trust enabled the safety, environmental, and security program to succeed. Outcomes:

Created safety, security and transportation policies that reduced accidents by 32% the first year.

Developed and trained convoy safety teams to heighten safety awareness for employees. This process worked so well that a property security teams was developed to help protect the client’s products being transported. These two processes were merged into one training program for all entry level employees and utilized as retraining for veteran employees.

Implemented communication meetings for joint forces to keep all operational managers and base commanders aware of safety and security issues that were occurring in theater which reduced accidents by 35%.

Exceeded DOD expectations for safety, operational security and transportation logistics while assigned to the JMMT’s.

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United Parcel Service, AR and FL

Safety, Logistics and Customer Service, 1993 to 2003

Gained extensive knowledge about the logistics aspects of business and how safety and customer service is a vital part of the company’s business plan for safety. Outcomes:

Responsible for providing safety training to drivers and ensuring that they understood and accepted the responsibility of becoming a safe driver.

Implemented safety procedures which decreased division liability expanses by 27%.

Continued and developed new training techniques for employees on how our company’s employees must be seen as pillars of the community. Never put yourself or the company in the negative limelight of the community.

Developed mirror check station for hub terminals that decreased accidents by 31%.

Education

United States Armed Forces/University of Florida,

Bachelor of Science in Business Management

Columbia Southern University, Orange Beach, AL

Bachelors in EHS

University of North Alabama, Birmingham, AL

Advanced Masters in EHS with concentration in Environmental Science

Volunteered Organizations

American Red Cross

Watchdog Dads

Sea Turtles Inc.

94 N Aqua Crossing # 1 Fayetteville, AR 72701 479-***-**** acqpu9@r.postjobfree.com

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