Christopher Carson
Email: ********@**************.***
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City: San Jose
State: CA
Zip: 95120
Country: USA
Phone: 408-***-****
Skill Level: Any
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Primary Skills/Experience:
Dedicated Safety Engineer with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills demonstrated by 11 years of experience.
Educational Background:
High School Dipolma from Saint Mary's College of California, Moraga CA 1/2001 to 8/2005 (Management)
High School Dipolma from University of California Santa Cruz, Moraga CA 1/2001 to 10/2012
Job History / Details:
Profile
Dedicated Safety Engineer with excellent technical, analytical and communication skills demonstrated by 11 years of experience.
Skills
Creative problem solving
Process improvement
Strong presentation skills
Confident public speaker
CPR certification
Outstanding social skills
Cultural awareness and sensitivity
Expertise in troubleshooting safety team issues
Expertise in OSHA compliance and procedure development
Strong collaborator
Personal and professional integrity
Relationship and team building
Accomplishments
Assisted a client organization reduce the number of OSHA recordable and Lost Time injuries over a 3 year period that led to a coveted safety award.
Reduced the recordable injuries by over 50 percentage
Reduced Lost Time injuries by over 65 percentage
Chaired PG&E's Arc Flash Hazard/Flame Resistant Clothing committee for 7 years
Wrote the AFH/FR Clothing procedure for 8,000 affected employees
Assisted client organizations choose a vendor to supply PG&E's FR clothing
Arranged orientations and fittings over PG&E's service territory (some 80,000 square miles)
Professional Experience
September 2001 to October 2012
Pacific Gas & Electric Company Cupertino, CA
Safety Engineer
Strengthened company's safety awareness by leading implementation of the FR Clothing Transition process
Trained, coached and mentored client organizations to ensure smooth adoption of the new Flame Resistant clothing vendor
Assisted my department's efforts to improve first line supervisors investigation skills by delivering Root Cause Analysis training throughout the service territory
Performed serious incident investigations
February 2000 to September 2001
Pacific Gas & Electric Company Cupertino, CA
System Auditor
Traveled the PG&E system to perform compliance audits on Customer Service organizations
Reviewed all safety and periodic inspection records to ensure client compliance to State and Federal regulations
Reviewed findings and set goals with organizational management teams
May 1995 to September 2001
Pacific Gas & Electric Company Cupertino, CA
Safety Program Coordinator
Developed self-managed safety teams
Identified safety leaders in client organizations
Implemented a "hanging file" system to track each work group's annual required training
Provided CPR/First Aid/Blood Borne Pathogen Training
Helped my Director achieve her organizational safety goals
Helped develop the "Blind Spot Survey" to inform company vehicle drivers as part of an effort to reduce automotive incidents
Education and Training
2005 Saint Mary's College of California Moraga, CA
Bachelor of Arts Management
2000 University of California Santa Cruz Cupertino, CA
Associate of Arts Occupational Safety and Health
A Certificate program
Affiliations
American Society of Safety Engineers