Safety Management
Resume:
Keith F. Spafford
**** ********** **, ************, ** 23838
*******@*******.***
Experienced professional with a proven career in safety and environmental
Profile Summary
management and loss control in manufacturing, warehousing, and construction.
Excel at interfacing with others at all levels to ensure organizational goals are attained.
Proactive team approach has resulted in lowering incident rates and worker’s
compensation costs consistently.
Possess excellent interpersonal, analytical, and organizational skills.
Exceeds within highly competitive environments where effective leadership skills are
the keys to success.
Passionate about the safety and the care and well-being of others.
Experienced safety instructor; authorized OSHA 10/30 instructor for the Construction
Industry as well as many other subjects.
Safety Employment COLONIALWEBB CONTRACTORS CO., Richmond, Virginia 2006 - Present
M echanical Contractor, HVAC Service, Industrial
R efrigeration, and Manufacturing
Safety & R isk Manager
Upper level management position accountable for administrating the
safety program and insurance coverage’s.
Developed strategy & tactic plans to reduce incident rates and lower
worker’s compensation and auto coverage’s in manufacturing, delivery,
construction, HVAC service, and industrial refrigeration.
Devise and implemented innovative safety marketing principles and
training programs to support internal continuous improvement.
Counsel high ranking management with regard to culture sustainment,
improvement opportunities, risk & hazard analysis, and severity
elimination.
Organized the corporate safety council; provided technical expertise and
guidance for culture sustainment and improvement .
Develop and deliver the vast majority of safety training to sustain the
knowledge base of all workers to support the safety program .
H ighlights:
Develop and flourish a corporate safety council.
Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals.
Establish a cadre of certified safety training instructors from within
the company to maintain annual training requirements and
certifications.
Established Site Safety Coordinators for large construction sites.
Instituted continuous improvement in safety culture.
Improved observation program for behavior based safety by
implementing and utilizing Predictive Solutions software.
Created a team atmosphere with all traded on construction sites.
Lowered incident rate by 60% and severity by 90% in three years.
2002 - 2006
FIREMANS FUND INSURANCE, Glen Allen, VA
C ommercial, Residential, and Specialty Insurance
Senior Loss Control
Gather data for potential insurability from manufacturing, construction
fleet, resorts, golf courses, warehousing, marinas, and others.
Analyzed facts to determine risks of potential insured .
Formulate plan of action for insuring risks with covenants and
recommendations.
Counseled clients with high value property (Highly Protected Risks)
Conduct safety and risk training for clients.
Coached owners on potential risks and risk reduction.
H ighlights:
Assisted in development of new insured appetite and developed
guidelines for company loss control instructions.
Developed a strategic plan for new business based clients including
manufacturing, large vessel water side piers, golf resorts, large vehicle
fleets, and fire protection.
Provide safety training to clients. 2000 – 2002
HANOVER COUNTY, Hanover, Virginia
U tility’s, Human Services, Police, Fire, Rescue, Schools
Safety & Ris k Manager
Develop strategy and tactics to reduce incident rates and lower worker’s
compensation in fleet, utilities, law enforcement, fire and rescue, facility
maintenance, parks and recreation, landfill, water and sewer plants,
vehicle maintenance, and department of health.
Counsel high ranking County management with regard to culture
sustainment, improvement opportunities, risk & hazard analysis, and
severity elimination.
Work with multiple departments within the County structure to ensure
safety training and knowledge was maintained at a high level.
Oversee constructions projects for safety compliance.
Analyzed trends and losses and develop actions items to control
shortfalls.
H i ghlights:
Improved confined space entry methods.
Developed a fleet safety plan to control losses.
Worked with police, fire and rescue for safety on the job and fleet 1999 – 2000
safety.
Lowered incident rates and worker’s compensation costs by 40% in
two years.
Instituted fleet safety program resulting in lowered incident rate
LOSS CONTROL CONSULTANT, Chesterfield, Virginia
I nsurance Coverage Assessment, Safety Training
L oss Control
Performed insurability analysis for multiple large insurance clients
including manufacturing, fleets, construction, warehousing, pre-
manufactured homes, coal mines and supporting operations, tree
trimming and logging.
Interfaced with multiple underwriters of major insurance firms to
design coverage’s for their clients.
Delivered safety and fire prevention training to multiple clients.
Counseled clients and high value property (Highly Protected Risks)
owners on potential risks and risk reduction.
H ighlights:
Develop and flourish the company safety committees.
Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals
MITSUBISHI CHEMICAL AMERICA, INC., Chesapeake, Virginia 1989 – 1999
C hemical, Specialty Coatings, U ltra - Pure Chemicals, B uilding
M aterials, Medical R&D, Printing Machinery, L ithography,
P VC Extrusion, Rare Earth Metals, Polymers
D irector Environmental & Safety Affairs
High-profile management position accountable for management of the
U.S corporate operations safety and environmental programs and
insurance coverage’s.
Managed a staff of 10 safety and environmental professional’s country
wide.
Coordinate 15 safety and environmental professionals at local
operations country wide in chemical manufacturing facilities, extrusion
plants, laboratories, research and development operations, electronic
storage media, fleets, assembly plants, process safety management
facility’s.
Prepared budgets and controlled costs.
Main team member of acquisitions and dispositions – safety and
environment due diligence.
Process Safety Management
H ighlights:
Provided design input of new grass roots facilities for state of the art
safety and environmental controls.
Developed all training programs and delivered the vast majority of
the training.
Established a safety internship program with Old Dominion
University, Norfolk, VA
Developed a strategic safety plan for short and long range goals.
Very successfully controlled the costs of Worker’s Compensation
corporate wide lowering the costs and rates by 49% in less than two 1985 - 1989
years. And lowered the individual incident rates of all owned
companies.
Established significant recycling programs for environmental
protection.
DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, Richmond,
Virginia
S tate Disaster Planning, Mitigation, and Recovery
H azardous Materials Response Officer
Response to major chemical incidents in transportation and fixed
facility.
Managed the emergency response equipment for pre-major incidents.
Liaison with local, state, and federal agencies for incident responses.
Serve on Local Emergency Planning Committees (LEPC) throughout
the state.
H ighlights:
Established and Developed regional hazardous material response
teams within select fire departments statewide.
Trained emergency first responders and seasoned hazardous material
responders in chemical incident mitigation.
Associate of Science in Fire Technology 1983
Education
O kaloosa - Walton Jr. College, Niceville, Florida
1980-1985
Safety and Risk Management studies (part time)
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Hazardous Material Medical Response
1986
George Washington University, Washington DC
OSHA 30 2006
Training
OSHA 500 2014
OSHA 510 2013
OSHA 511 2013
Competent Person Refresher’s
Scaffolding Safety – ABC 2006 Refresher 2012
Trench and Excavation Competent Person Coble Trench 2012
Excavation Safety & Damage Prevention Celeritas Works 2009
Pipeline Awareness & Education Celeritas Works 2010
Fall Protection Competent Person Safety Update Environmental
Engineering Inc. 2011
Crane Awareness & Basic Rigger Environmental Engineering Inc 2011
NFPA 70E update GE Energy 2012
Aerial Lift Devices & Scissors Lifts VOSH 2012
Fall Protection VOSH 2006
Heavy Equipment Operator – Associated Training Services 2012
Ammonia Safety (Industrial Refrigeration) ASTI 2013
Supervisor Skills Gilbane 2011
Supervisory Safety Development Trainer - National Safety Council 2013
Many more, too many to list.
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