Manager Safety

John DiPaolo

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Address: ***** **** ******* ***

City: Littleton

State: CO

Zip: 80127

Country: USA

Phone: 303-***-****

Skill Level: Management

Salary Range: $70,000

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REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

Mr. DiPaolo's twenty-two years experience in Occupational and Environmental, Health and Safety reflects health-care, manufacturing, instruction and course development, waste remediation, and construction industries success. He has been a site-walker, manager, full-time trainer, specialist, and consultant effectively overseeing large and small company audits, programs, and insurances. Recently, he passed the first of two CSP (Certified Safety Professional) examinations. Related crossover experience includes mineralogy processing R&D in laboratories and pilot plants (with Fire Brigade membership) and top secrete missile computer maintenance (US Army)

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

HMIS (Hz Mat Inventory System) compliance

LEPC Tier 2 submissions

EHS course development and instruction

Health and Safety program management

OSHA Compliance and EHS Audits

Hazardous Waste Site Remediation

Construction Safety

INSTRUCTOR QUALIFICATIONS

OSHA 30 and 10 hr General Industry Safety

OSHA 30 and 10 hr Construction Safety

HAZWOPER 40hr, 24hr ER responder, 8hr supervisor, and 8hr refresher(s)

Permit Required Confined Spaces

DOT Hazardous Waste Transportation

EPA Hazardous Waste Management

Respiratory Testing and Protection

Forklift Safety

Fall Protection

Excavation Safety

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

Associate Safety Professional (ASP) #16765

Occupational Health and Safety Technologist (OHST) #2941

EDUCATION

B.A. Psychology Metropolitan St College Denver, CO

A.S. Occupational Health and Safety, Trinidad State Jr College, Trinidad, CO

Certificate, Environmental Compliance Technology, Red Rocks Comm College, Lakewood, CO

Missile Computer Maintenance US Army

EH&S Specialist, Kaiser Permanente Colorado: 09/09 - 02/13 8000 employee (30 facilities and support offices) company of national health insurance/health-care foundation. Implemented corporate EHS policies, spearheaded OSHA complaint letters resolutions, trained/consulted facility safety teams on-site, and created regional written guidelines, procedures, and training programs

1. EH&S Annual Assessment Guideline and on-site inspections featuring enterprise data-driven software; then self-created I-Pad audit spreadsheets with dashboard reports and annual facility monitoring as a leading indicator that a) supplemented lowest accepted claims rate (1.9) for all regions b) delivered zero findings during national corporate EH&S audit c) accomplished highest level pay-out for team goals

2. Fire Prevention and Protection (with Fire Drill procedures) Regional Guideline in cooperation with Emergency Management Department providing tools for facility specific plans and procedures. Also, member of EOC (Emergency Operations Center) participating in annual functional exercises.

3. Hazardous Waste Guideline with one-on-one facility specific Hazardous Waste Manager training to help document generator status and oversee chemical/biological waste removal saving $24,000 annually. Subsequently, tasked to reduce costs for BioHazardous waste because of previous success with Hazardous Waste Management

4. Company wide (30 locations) monthly electronic reconciliation of hazardous waste generated and Hazardous Waste Manifests to verify RCRA generator status

5. Began 100% process (first time) to create / submit annual EPCRA/SERC and LEPC paperwork especially **Tier II reporting (electronically) **maps / floor plans / satellite images using CAMEO software **up to date general information forms/spreadsheets **chemical inventories **Fire Districts HMIS submissions across 9 counties

6. Interact with State (CDPHE), local (city/county), and Federal (Region VIII EPA) personnel such as LEPCs and SERC

EHS Specialist, Milgard Manufacturing Corp: 09/07 - 01/09 230 employee location of national vinyl window and door company. Implemented national corporate EHS policies, procedures, and programs during spiraling-down economy to accomplish cost reductions

1. Incident rate: 5.7 and declining

2. Introduced new glove technology and strong inventory controls to reduce PPE costs from $5000 to $1000 / month and declining

3. Revitalized sagging BBS (behavior based safety) coaching plan by incentifying hourly workers with up to 50 "$afetybucks" boosting safety culture

4. Oversaw all employees on written 'return-to-work' restricted duty while accompanying them to Dr's appointments

5. Spearheaded strong presence of plant safety committee with independent plant inspections and team-member led stretching exercises

6. Created A-B-C-fail "grading" system of EHS participation for production Supervisors

7. Audited 15 monthly submitting results to divisions and company Plant Manager

8. Trained employees per self-created annual matrix: new-hire orientation, OSHA 30 hr general industry; OSHA 10hr

construction; 24 industry specific topics each week

9. Assisted maintenance to degrade all NFPA 70E (electrical arc-flash) hazards to the lowest level and acquire appropriate certified training

10. Rewrote, created or updated sections of IIPP (Injury and Illness Prevention Plan) adding over 100 pages

National Training Manager, Compliance Solutions Occupational Trainers Inc: 08/04 - 08/07 Co-Hire, manage and oversee 24 sub-contracted and employed EHS Instructor-Consultants across the country

1. Annually create, modernize and update Power Point Presentations for HAZWOPER, EPA Hazardous Waste Management, DOT Hazardous Materials Transportation, Confined Spaces Entry and Rescue, Respiratory Protection, Hazard Communication, Construction Safety, Disaster Site Worker, Emergency Response, Competent Person for Occupational Safety, and similar regulatory courses

2. Taught more than 120 days per year locally and nation-wide

3. Discover, build, and submit 'Requests for Proposal' training solicitations nationwide for city, county, state, federal agencies and military

4. Develop Health and Safety programs, plans, procedures, and specialized trainings as consultant to private company clients such as Ergonomic assessments (Northrop-Grumann), Confined Space Matrices (LaFarge NA), PPE Assessments (Levi-Strauss); 24 hr HAZWOPER Emergency Response (Encana)

5. Advise training equipment purchases such as SCBAs (Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus) and CPCs (Chemical Protective Clothing)

Health And Safety Officer, Envirocon: 07/03 - 02/04 Environmental remediation of radioactive and chemically contaminated soils, pipelines, incinerators and wet-wells

1. Supervised health / safety of 30 workers in HAZWOPER levels B, C, and D remediation

2. Oversaw Asbestos, Beryllium abatements especially excavations, fall prevention issues and heavy equipment safet

3. Cooperated with nuclear safety officers; Monitored for wind, dusts, Volatile Organic Compounds, Hydrogen Sulfide exposures and Oxygen deficiencies

Health And Safety Technician, URS Group: 04/02 - 07/03

1. Supervised health and safety of 120 workers in HAZWOPER levels A, B, C, and D work areas; also heat stress prevention using pulse/temperatures, heat stress monitoring

2. Managed Asbestos abatement sub-contractor: contract compliance, H&S plan and daily activities

3. Created teams setting-up/calibrating/logging personal chemical monitoring pumps and area air-monitoring instrumentation (FID/PIDs, Mercury Vapor Meters, 4-gas meters, dust meters)

4. Drafted/wrote A.H.A.s (Activity hazard Analyses)

5. Trained and Tested using 'PortaCount' instruments Supplied Air Respirator, Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus and face Air Purifying Respirator fitting and use

6. Co-taught OSHA HAZWOPER 8-hour refresher

7. Initiated/taught 10 hour OSHA Construction Safety Course

BEYOND 10 YEARS

Safety First, Safety Inspector 10/01-04/02

Western States Fire Protection, Safety Manager 03/01-06/01

Grimm Construction, Risk/Compliance Manager 01/00-12/00

Haselden Construction, Risk Manager 07/99-01/00

Denver Drywall, Safety Director 05/98-07/99

Colorado Safety Link Limited Liability Company, Consultant 10/93-present

Interstate Highway Construction, Safety Officer 04/92-10/93

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