Safety Management

Annette Welbon

*** ****** **** *****, ********, Kentucky 40475

Phone: 859-***-**** Email: ***********@*****.***

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Environmental Health & Safety Profile

Green Team Chairperson • Employee Led EHS Team Resource • EHS Trainer

Environmental, Health and Safety Specialist that is safety conscious and has a history of success focusing on safety,

quality and production processes in a fast paced manufacturing environment. Track EHS record and developing,

evaluating, and implementing continuous process improvements to minimize hazards, wastes and reduce costs

while maximizing safety, quality and reducing the environmental foot print. Establish effective safety control

programs, encouraging proactive participation across the manufacturing floor. Excellent communicator, success in

building unified teams union and non-union focused on safety goals, quality, and thru put. Areas of Expertise:

• EHS Auditor Corporate and Regulatory • Incident Investigation • 10 Hour OSHA

• Applied Industrial Trainer (Humantech) • A3 Problem Solving • Cost Reduction

• Team Building • Procedure Development • Rapid Improvement Events

Professional Experience

Environmental Health and Safety Specialist 12/2007-Present

Ingersoll Rand – Trane Company - Lexington, Kentucky

Challenged with an evolving production floor process including new manufacturing techniques while striving to

reduce incidents and train new job responsibilities for a large HVAC manufacturer. Evaluate, and document new

job processes for hazards and ergonomics; Management of Change. Involved in creating and implementing

strategic vision for operational excellence deployment plan. Co-chair of the green team focusing on reducing,

reusing and recycling waste to help the environment which increased recycling efforts by 50% as well as to develop

cost savings for the company.

• Awarded the Ingersoll Rand President’s Award for Inspiring Progress in 2012 for environment

improvements as well as putting together a program which raised 500lbs of food for the Hope Center in

Lexington, Ky.

• Support EHS Department in managing daily EHS responsibilities for 1200 union / non-union employees

• Provide training to employees such as Lockout Tagout, Fall Protection, Powered Industrial Vehicle Awareness,

Walking Surfaces, HazComm, Confined Space Awareness, Ergonomics

• Conduct safety and environmental audits, review results with management staff and ensure action items are

corrected or implemented

• Corporate auditor for Environmental, Health and Safety requirements for all Ingersoll Rand locations

• Perform Job Hazard Analysis in work cells on production floor; incorporating trials of new PPE, tools and

ergonomic equipment

• Manage the Modular System to ensure all reporting, training, testing, auditing and document retention is followed

and completed on time; creating and updating EHS procedures

• Certified Humantech Applied Industrial Trainer; assist in Ergonomic Assessments on production floor work cells

as well as office work areas

• Investigate, track and maintain documentation for workplace incidents; trends, corrective actions, injury statistics

that are tools used to reduce TRIR and LTIR as well as using the Safety Problem Solving tool

• Participate in all federal or local government agency inspections

• Manage monthly environmental reporting requirements and ensuring reporting is completed on time

• Provide EHS orientation to all new hires and temporary employees

• Achieved Governor’s Safety and Health Award in 2011 for over 3 million hours worked without a lost time

incident

• Managed Safety Task Force in correcting safety hazards within the facility

• Created daily Toolbox Talks for daily safety starts

Coordinator Corporate Compliance 2/2002-7/2004

All Saints Health Care, Inc. Racine, Wisconsin

Tasked with overseeing completion of all projects in multiple departments and reviewed them all for accuracy.

Coordinated communication with multiple departments to ensure all projects were completed on time. Participated in

federal inspections.

• Contract Management; maintain the contract management database; track essential contract elements, provided

contract reports to key leaders, Executive Team and contracted attorneys

• Served as a key resource for Policy & Procedure and Safety management; maintain the process and intranet

resource, prepared and revised administrative policies related to Corporate Compliance and Safety

• Received privacy concerns; identified issues that needed prompt intervention, able to discuss complex privacy

issues with patients, families, physicians and attorneys with the strictness of confidentiality

• Managed compliance and safety education; registered new employees, facilitated education of

employees, provided reporting functions to key leaders

• Prepared all correspondence, maintained compliance databases, prepared reports in a variety of formats

as needed for the Corporate Compliance and Safety Programs

• Coordinate large projects with minimal supervision; able to work effectively in establishing priorities

and meeting deadlines

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Education

Bachelors

College of Justice and Safety at Eastern Kentucky University – (2011)

Certified Paralegal Program

Carthage College (Wisconsin) – (1992)

University Wisconsin Parkside – (1989 - 1991)

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