Julio Ruiz, Jr.
Fairfield CA, 94534
Education: BS Safety / Fire Protection Engineering
BS Safety Management
June 1981, Cogswell College, San Francisco, CA
Matriculation for ARM. Completed ARM 54
Ongoing personal development in federal regulatory standards, organizational and individual behavior sciences and safety analytics.
Work Experience Summary: 30 plus years’ loss prevention / risk management and fire protection consultation experience with major insurance carriers, private industry and private consultation. This included preparation of risk assessments for underwriting accounts to identify loss sources and causation factors and development of corporate loss prevention plans for frequency and severity reduction. Director of safety, major manufacturing operation. This included responsibility for on-site medical department and workers’ compensation program.
11 years management experience. This included managing the San Francisco Industrial Indemnity Safety and Health Department Team leader for Liberty Mutual Pleasanton office, loss prevention operations. Six years operations management experience with Bank of America and Union Bank. Director of Safety at Pacific Steel Casting Co.
Relevant Skills and Experience:
Working knowledge of federal and state regulatory safety compliance regulations. Ability to enhance the effectiveness of safety performance risk management strategic approaches. Total quality management, organizational development and individual behavior based safety techniques used in consulting approach to design interventions that lead to long-term safety performance improvement. Effective presentation, analytical and risk identification assessment skills for loss prevention.
Industry Consulting Experience Includes:
Food Processing / Mfg.
Agricultural
Foundry
Building Services
Construction General and subcontractors.
Hospitality Industry
Elderly care facilities
Property Management
Water & Sanitation Operations
Office / Customer Service
Warehousing
Home health care.
Employment Experience:
Independent Consultation Service: Principal Managing Consultant June 2000 to Present (Special Projects)
Independent consultant services focus on worker’s compensation safety performance improvement thought risk control and claims integration process. Systems are designed and developed to integrate both pre, and post injury practices to control severity of injury and improve control mechanisms for long-term frequency reduction. Services also include organization capability development supported by consultation and custom training design to address specific loss source exposures.
Clients include: General Contractors Inc. (GCI), Acme Building Services & Maintenance, Pacific Steel Casting, McMillen Electric, and Monterey Mechanical, and Southland Construction. Providing loss prevention consultation services for multiple carriers and captive accounts.
Pacific Steel Casting Company Berkeley, CA
March 2012 to May 2013 Director of Safety
Responsible for setting the direction of company wide safety & health standards and facilitating the implementation of safety initiatives through plant management personnel. Responsibilities also included managing the workers compensation program through the on-site medical coordinator. Set up the first wellness program in company history and oversaw the deployment of a safety management software system to performance manage safety performance and workers’ compensation results. 600 Employee Company
Independent Safety Management Consultant Suisun, CA
ECCO Engineering Benicia, CA
November 2000 to November 2003 Part-Time Safety Director
Responsible for development, organization, support and implementation of company safety program. On-site field inspection and training responsibilities. 20 to 65 employee population.
Liberty Mutual Pleasanton, CA
May 1997 to June 2000 Sr. Loss Prevention Consultant - Multiline Carrier
Large Risk Management Account Consultation @ 800k premium or above.
Industrial Indemnity San Francisco, CA
April 1990 to April 1997 Sr. Safety & Health Consultant / Regional Manager -
Workers Compensation Carrier - Safety and workers’ compensation services @ 200K and above.
Great American Insurance San Francisco, CA
Jan. 1987 to April 1990 Loss Prevention Specialist -
Significant Achievements:
Creator and Founder of CBTracker Risk Pro 3 software. A safety performance inspection management software tool. Provided through Ariskion LLC – (Analytical Risk Reduction Co.). Currently in launch phase.
Spearheaded the effort to implement a consistent loss prevention-consulting model at Industrial Indemnity to improve quality of safety consultation services. This resulted in an overall corporate initiative to implement a consistent servicing model for insured and underwriting.
Initiated the development of a loss prevention database at Liberty Mutual to improve logistical tracking and scheduling of accounts.
Developed initial draft of a behavior based safety program at Industrial Indemnity to service advanced safety program customers.
Development of a safety performance training program.
Community Activities: Former President Babe Ruth Baseball Fairfield / Suisun 13 to 18 year old players.
Animal rescue advocate.
Special Skills: Bi-lingual in Spanish.
OSHA approved 10 and 30 hours Construction Industry Trainer
Competent Forklift train the trainer Instructor
References can be provided upon request.