Health Safety

GUNTER KRAUS CSP, CIH

*** ***** ******, ********, ***** No.: 204-***-****

E-mail address: acbm1t@r.postjobfree.com

PROFILE

- Over 20 years experience in occupational health and safety, most recently in the

transportation industry, included in this are my skills in doing job hazard analysis, risk

assessments, all types of health and safety audits, occupational health and safety related

accident, injury and illness investigations, my expertise in this area has meant that I have represented the

company in a court of law on many occassions, training in confined spaces, fall arrest and

protection, working in trenches, fire safety and working alone

- Extensive experience in designing, administering certification and accreditation, and

implementation of health and safety systems and programs

- Many years experience educating management and employees and well-versed in the giving

of employee orientations, able to build good employee rleationships using good written and

oral communication skills

- Extensive practical experience in food safety and HACCP with post secondary education

- Continuous improvement and kaizan experience in a manufacturing setting, taught CI and

kaizan to over 1, 800 company employees as QC/QA manager with palliser furniture's

import/export, EQ3 division., chaired weekly CI meetings

- Have an extensive and world class education in Occupational Health and Safety

- Very detail orientated with strengths in rganization, time management and multi-tasking

- Excellent computer skills including MS Word, used for writing reports and correspondance

with government and industry related officials, Excel, used in the reproduction and

production of course related material and report writing, PowerPoint, used for report writing

and production of course and other industry related materials and Simply Accounting, used

for a time to do the weekly payroll for 156 company employees.

- honoured as executive of the year in 2011 as safety advisor/compliance at paramount truck and

again in 2012 for my work at Subic Bay.

- have over 5 years experience in the training of employees in the safe use and operation of lift

trucks, scissor lifts and reach lifts and have held an instructor liscense for almost three years

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Safety Advisor, Subic Bay Metropolitian Authority (SBMA) Subic Bay Freeport Area, Philippines

Sep. 23, 2011 to Apr. 1, 2012

- Certified and accredted the Dispensary Microbiology Laboratory to ISO standards, made

improvements to the sample chain of custody to make it safer and more efficient

- Made improvements to the Metropolitian authorities HACCP and food safety program to

bring it inline with CFIA and agri-food Canada's standards and to make the food handling

process safer

- Responsible for all Occupational Health and Safety related accident, injury and illness related

investigations, represented the metropolitian authority in legal matters and in a court of law, in

front of government officials and SBMA representatives whenever the need arose, due to my

many years of experience in this field and my expertise and qualifications

- Made improvements to semi-trailer tractor transpoprtation safety within the entire

metropolitian authority area, audited all construction sites within the area and enforced SBMA

occupational health and safety rules, regulations and guidelines, put in place gudelines and

programs for pre and post-trip inspections, driver's logs and log books and a ridimentary system

for hours of service

- Duties included all Health and Safety related duties as saw fit by other departments within

the metropolitain area.

- Wrote reports on a weekly and monthly basis

Safety Advisor/Compliance Manager, Paramount Truck Lines Limited, Winnipeg, MB

May 2010 to Sep. 2011

- Rewsponsible for all Health and Safety reletated accident, injury and illness investigations and

represented the company in a court of law when needed and my expertise in this field was

needed, administered and updated the company wide Health and Safety bonus program, duties

included health and safety training and orientation of all company employees and management

personnel

- Administered company wide drug testing program, driver logs and hard files and made sure

they were kept for the mandatory three year time period as required by DOT, updated all driver

hard files whenever needed

- certification of all company drivers to carry and transport dangerous goods, responsible for

WHMIS training and education

- Responsible for the hiring, retention, training and letting go of company drivers, performed

driver log audits, updated company phone list whenever needed which was daily,

company equipment and fuel card distribution, administered employee medical insurance

policy and program from Manulife

- Worked with immigrtion Canada, the foreign workers program and the provincial nominee

program to hire foreign workers, familiar and experienced obtaining positive LMO's

- Did the monthly Company Safety Profiles, MPI accident reports, daily FAST card and

signority reports, set up driver appointments at US embassy's in Toronto, Ottawa, Calgary and

Vancouver for drivers to get their FAST cards

- Corresponded with DOT officials, law enforcement agencies and departments, State, Provincial

and Federal Environmenral Protection Agencies when it came to hazardous material spills and

concerns, represented the company in court in a hazardous spill case to present best methods

for the clean-up and mop-up of the hazardous spill encountered December 26, 2010 when one

of our drivers drove his truck into the ditch at high speeds dumping two full anks of gas into the

environment

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Safety Analyst, Vancouver 2010 Olympic committee (Vancouver Olympics), Vancouver, BC

Nov. 2008 to May 2010

- Responsible for all hiring, training, retaining and orientation of all occupational health and

safety employees, officials ane volunteers

- Health and safety audits of all sports and non-sports venues in the Whistler, BC area,

inspections of all baggage x-ray machines in the whistler area

- Performed all Occupational Health and Safety related audits, investuigated and looked into all

the incident reports and proposed reccommendations so they wouldn't happen again

- Worked closly wth all provinciasl and federal Occupational Health ans Safety professionals

Construction Health and Safety Officer, CCM Construction, Whytewood, SK

Feb. 2006 to Nov. 2008

- Daily Health and Safety Inspections of the construction site, chaired the bi-weekly health and

safety committee meeting, ran the daily toolbox talks

- Performed noise level testing when needed, nspected machines for proper guarding and to

ensure each machine had an emergency stop switch, make sure each machine was in proper

working order

- Occupational Health and Safety related accident, injury and illness investigations, performed

job hazard analysis and risk assessments on a daily basis and whenever the need arose, when

new job descriptions arose

- Enforcement of provincial and federal occupational health and safety regulations and policies,

responsible for the storage and handling of dangerous material, enforced policies and

regulations regarding working in confined spaces and when working a heights over 6 feet

- Responsible for employee health and safety orientation and training, investigated and followed

up on all incident and close call reports and made reccommendations to ensure those incidents

wouldn't occur again

NON-RELATED EXPERIENCE

General Labourer, Drake, Perfect Placement, Winnipeg, Manitoba Sep. 2012 to Present

- General labour at various sites throughout the City of Winnipeg

- Unloaded semitractor trailers, worked on various construction sites, worked at Ambassador

Mechanical doing and designing heating systems

Teacher, St. Therese Child of Christ School, San Pedro, Laguna, Philippines Apr. 2012 to Sep. 2012

- Taught grade 10 general science, grade 11 biology and grade 12 hysics and chemistry

- Gave, wrote and marked exams, wrote dialy lesson plans and was put in charge of the schools

english language lab

EDUCATION

Registered Trainer, OSHA, Subic Bay Freeport Area, Pampanga Philippines Feb 2012

PhD in Occupational Health and Safety, Redding University (RU) Redding Pennsylvania

May 2008 to Feb. 2010

Certification in Fire Safety, University of Kentucky (UK) Lexington, KY Jan. 2007 to Mar. 2007

Registration to Level three Health and Safety Practitioner, Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

London, United Kingdom Feb 2007

Certification as a Health and Safety Engineer, Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH)

London, United Kingdom Nov 2006

MS in Biology, Ashwood University (AU) South Hollywood, California Mar 2003 to May 2005

Diploma in Computer Science, Hallcrest College (HC) Winnipeg, Manitoba Nov 1998 to Jun. 2000

Bachelor of Science Majorin Microbiology, University of Manitoba (UM) Winnipeg, Manitoba

Sep. 1991 to Oct 1996

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