Manager Safety

Romona Armstead

Global Environment, Health, and Safety Manager - UNITED TECHNOLOGIES

Stone Mountain, GA

********@*****.*** - 770-***-****

Environment, Health, and Safety professional with nine years of experience in food manufacturing, facility

services, and distribution environments. Results include lifting United Technologies’ Onity locations from a

12% EHS program evaluation rating to 90% within one year. Achievements also include reducing OSHA

serious incidents by 100%. In addition, my knowledge skills and abilities reduced workers compensation dollars

spent by 76% in two years at Coleman Natural Foods. Other accomplishments include a 45% reduction in

non-recycled waste worldwide, lighting projects reducing KwH usage by 28% YOY, the creation of a metals

recycling program resulting in cash received and further reductions in non-recycled process waste.

• Completing EHS management system audits, safety inspections identifying opportunities and developing

corrective action plans to ensure compliance with OSHA, EPA, and DOT

• Process safety management, product safety, chemical safety

• Business process improvement using lean transformation techniques

• Conducting new hire and temporary employee safety orientations to ensure compliance with EHS policies

and procedures

• Incident trending to determine prevention and control needs

• Worldwide responsibility over behavioral-based safety programs

• Creating and monitoring recycling and disposal programs for environmental compliance

• Conducting industrial hygiene assessments to determine engineering control needs for hazard elimination

• Conducting hazard risk assessments and job hazard analyses to facilitate APC programs

• Ensuring compliance with storm water regulations in the food manufacturing industry

• Conducting Tier 2 reporting on anhydrous ammonia in the food manufacturing industry

• Conducting root cause analysis using TapRoot and FMEA tools for both corrective action and preventive,

proactive approaches

WORK EXPERIENCE

Global Environment, Health, and Safety Manager

UNITED TECHNOLOGIES - Duluth, GA - June 2007 to Present

300 employees worldwide

• Conduct safety inspections and investigate violations to ensure policies are followed

• Counsel employees on preventive actions from rank and file to executive level

• Maintain worker training schedules using the Gensuite Training Tracker

• Maintain EHS inspection records using the Gensuite Power Inspection Tool

• Ensure EHS compliance in facilities in Europe, Asia, Australia, North America, and South America

• Conduct environmental inspections to ensure EPA compliance

• Create and maintain recycling programs to ensure environmental responsibility

• Manage contractor and vendor safety programs

• 24/7 responsibility over facility and systems (burglar, fire suppression, emergency generation, air

compression)

• Manage hazard communications/right to know program with GHS standards

• Manage lockout/tagout, machine guarding, and total productive maintenance programs

• Manage emergency preparedness program

• Lead product and services FMEA process

• Train employees in the behavioral-based safety program

• Conduct EHS gap assessments in other United Technologies North America facilities

• Lead value stream mapping events, root cause analysis projects, and Kaizen events

• Dotted line reports in Europe and South America, direct line report in North America

• Reduced serious injuries by 100% worldwide

Safety Manager

COLEMAN NATURAL FOODS - January 2005 to April 2007

1,000 employees

• Directly responsible for Environment, Health, and Safety for two raw plants, two cook plants, and a freezer

location

• Ensured compliance with storm water regulations including sampling

• Conducted Tier II reporting on anhydrous ammonia

• Responsible for spill prevention program

• Responsible for industrial hygiene program to include assessments and PPE fit tests

• Conducted new hire safety orientations

• Responsible for DOT compliance program

• Supervised two direct reports

• Managed safety program for third shift sanitation workers in four locations

• Managed hazard communications/right to know program

• Reduced OSHA recordable injuries by 17.38% across five locations

EDUCATION

MBA in Project Management

Brenau University

2013 to Present

BS in Industrial Education

Clemson University - Clemson, SC

1996 to 1999

SKILLS

Leading value stream mapping events, conducting root cause analysis, product safety, international

experience in EHS management, process improvement (lean transformation), EHS in manufacturing,

distribution, and service, ergo evaluator, managing ethics programs, managing export controls programs

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Other Achievements

• Appointed Business Practices & Ethics Officer – United Technologies

• Appointed Export Controls Officer – United Technologies

• Appointed Continuous Improvement lead – United Technologies

Certifications

• Certified Office Ergonomics Evaluator

• Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt

• Certified ACE Associate (Achieving Competitive Excellence – United Technologies’ Continuous

Improvement / Lean Transformation program)

• Currently enrolled in OSHA 30 hour certification courses

• Next step: CSP

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