SUMMARY

A detail-oriented and results-driven operations safety professional with demonstrated expertise in OSHA and environmental regulatory compliance, operations analysis, health and safety standards, strategic planning and training and development. Significant experience in HS&E specifically within international chemicals, diversified manufacturing and telecommunications. Proven capabilities in auditing and risk management. A forward-thinking strategist who works effectively with company personnel and management to address complex organization-wide safety issues while controlling loss frequency and protecting corporate assets. Leverages diversified technical background and knowledge of high-level industry processes to incorporate cost-effective programs and protect employee safety.

Specialties:

Leadership - SHE and Risk Management – Improved control and reduced uncertainty

Governess - Safety Management Systems Review and Compliance Plans Development – provided higher confidence in maintaining a compliant work place

Oversight – Audits and On-site Reviews – provided teams the information they needed to maintain safe procedures and processes

Risk Management - Value Analysis, Workers’ Compensation Administration, and Fleet Risk Control – improved control over risk and lower operating costs

Troubleshooting – Problem solving, Accident investigations – helped prevent unsafe acts & conditions by providing insight into the current environment

Training – Safety Management and OSHA, EPA Compliance – shared information on hazard identification and recognition skills

Volunteer Leadership - Fitness and Wellness – facilitates emotional and physical rehabilitation for disabled Veterans and Warriors; served in emergency medical advanced life support.

Mentoring – training and assisting interns, colleagues and direct reports by supervising and motivating each to develop professional habits and skills.

EXPERIENCE

PEARSON SAFETY MANAGEMENT CONSULTING, INC. Hockessin, Delaware

Owner and President, 1999 – Present. An independent safety management consultancy, services address resolving international and domestic safety management issues. The practice focuses on system-based solutions providing safety management services and compliance assistance to manufacturing businesses and the public sector in delivering safety training, and consulting to mitigate operational risk.

DUPONT/CHEMOURS COMPANY, Deepwater, NJ

Occupational Health and Safety Consultant, Performance Chemicals, 2015

As Health and Safety advisor to Performance chemicals production teams provided consultation, advice and guidance on Process Safety issues, including pre-start-up safety reviews, accident investigations, and site inspections. Supported manufacturing operations involving highly hazardous and highly toxic chemicals. Signed off on lockout/tagout, excavation and hot work permits. HazMat experience includes processing highly toxic materials, fluorinated compounds and intermediates, compressed gases including fuel gas storage.

Established solid working relationships with engineers, operators and operations managers in achieving continuous improvement in process safety management, OSHA and EPA compliance.

Responded with work permitting approvals for lockout/tagout, confined space entry, excavation permitting, fall protection and working aloft.

CARPENTER CO. Richmond, Virginia

Corporate Safety Director 2010 - 2013

Serve in a high level leadership role providing corporate safety and risk management support to Carpenter’s 17 Manufacturing Divisions in the US, Canada and Europe. Responsible for executive level leadership in accident and injury reduction, vehicle accident prevention and legal compliance including OSHA and EPA, and with national and international consensus standards. Carpenter is the world’s largest manufacturer of flexible urethane foam products used in the bedding and furniture markets worldwide with 5,000 employees and $2 billion in sales operating in North America and 5 European countries. HazMat experience includes process safety management of feed stock for urethane foam involving combining ethene oxide and propylene oxide with a catalyst to produce polyol that is processed with methylene diisoconate or toluene diisoconate to manufacture ridged or flexible foam.

Developing and revising policy, procedures, and programs aimed at controlling and preventing injuries and illnesses

Leading the corporate level safety, health and environmental executive committee to assure the organization is productive at eliminating and controlling hazards and effective with its safety, health and environmental initiatives.

Conducting safety and health oversight audits to assure compliance with national and international standards, and corporate policies and procedures.

Managing workers’ compensation claims, maintain liaisons with insurers and broker in controlling claim costs.

Maintaining Company’s loss levels to a historic low in 2011 by affecting corporate policy and safety and health initiatives.

WALMART STORES, INC., Richmond, Virginia

Regional Safety Manager, 2008-2010

Promoted safety awareness to execute preventative safety programs for 119 stores and more than 35,000 associates in region 17, which included Virginia and West Virginia. Monitored Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) compliance issues by responding to and investigating serious accidents as well as defending OSHA inspections. HazMat experience includes handling diesel fuel storage and aerosol consumer product with flammable propellants.

Provided regional operations with risk control and management support regarding workers’ compensation and property loss exposures.

Facilitated improvements in store-level safety performance through ten regional markets and 119 stores, consisting mostly of supercenters.

Achieved significant accident reductions on market basis through executive-level safety leadership training/consultation and influencing operations management to fully execute requisite programs.

Reduced accident rates by up to 25% at respective market levels.

Served as member of regional executive operations team.

SUNCOM WIRELESS, INC., Richmond, Virginia

Corporate Health and Safety Manager, 2001-2008

Provided technical support and expertise by coordinating, advising and assisting corporate management with vital risk management and control functions. Delivered OSHA safety training required in related risk and exposure areas, including electrical safe work practices, radio frequency safety awareness, personal protective equipment, and hazard communication. Performed risk assessments and wrote all essential documentation for applicable OSHA compliance/loss prevention applications for field operations, retail sales, telecommunication switch and data center needs, and including radio frequency safety awareness and Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) environmental compliance plans. HazMat experience includes diesel fuel storage and transportation to power portable generators to cover cell site outages. Fixed diesel installations to support call centers and network operations centers in the event of outages.

Administered workers' compensation company-wide and served as gatekeeper for property/casualty claims, supporting company risk and insurance management program.

Achieved loss reductions over six-and-a-half years, resulting in .65 experience modifier rate (EMR) and 11% loss ratio for workers' compensation insurance through effective safety and health programming.

Accomplished substantial auto accident rate reductions and loss savings, resulting in 22% loss ratio for auto liability insurance by establishing a comprehensive vehicle risk management policy encompassing all fleet vehicles and implementing affirmative driver controls.

Received Culbertson award for outstanding volunteer service in 2007 from American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE).

Recognized as safety professional of the year from ASSE council of standards and practices in 2001.

TELIGENT, INC., Vienna, Virginia

Corporate Safety Manager, 1999-2001

Directed corporate risk control programs, including technical insurance matters, OSHA and environmental compliance, vehicle safety and property loss prevention. Served as first corporate safety manager for company, providing internal resource for OSHA compliance. Made recommendations for risk management support. Established alliances and set ground work for implementing programs geared to protecting corporate interests with OSHA and risk management issues. HazMat experience included diesel fuel storage and compliance with RCRA and storm water runoff rules in 40 markets across the US.

Initiated management system to coordinate employee benefits and workers’ compensation and to avoid duplication on benefit payments, while serving as gatekeeper for workers’ compensation and other property/casualty claims.

Designed, developed and implemented two technically complex and far-reaching programs for fall protection and radio frequency safety awareness in 40 markets nationwide.

Rolled up programs as encompassing rooftop safety control plan for all rooftop risks and related worked exposures.

Instituted environmental compliance procedures nationally, including SPCC plans for 20 switch and data centers nationwide.

Previously, chemical and HazMat experience included work in phosphates & phosphites, phosphoric acid and its derivatives in organic inorganic chemical processes, establishing process safety auditing for highly hazardous chemicals under OSHA’s PSM standard. Establish companywide crisis management program in view of transport hazmat transport by rail and road tankers. Also coordinated responses to off-site to transportation incidents for highly hazard chemical shipments as Safety Manager, North America.

EDUCATION

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, New York, M.A., Safety Management

FORDHAM UNIVERSITY, Bronx, New York, B.S., History, Management Science

CERTIFICATION

Board of Certified Safety Professionals (CSP)

Associate in Risk Management (ARM)

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

National Safety Council-First Aid, CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) Instructor, 2008-2009

OSHA Outreach, Instructor for General Industry Safety and Health, 2007-2011

OSHA Outreach, Instructor for Construction Safety and Health, 2006-2010

Emergency Medical Technician-Enhanced (EMT-EN), 2005-2007

Emergency Medical Technician-Basic (EMT), 2002-2009

Radio Frequency Awareness Training, 2003

Associate in Risk Management (ARM), 1998-2010

AFFILIATIONS

Virginia Commonwealth University School of Business, Undergraduate Industrial Safety and Health Adjunct Professor, 1986 - 2012

American Society of Safety Engineers; Various leadership positions from 1973 at the Chapter, Region and Practice Specialty level. Most recent elected office, Vice President for Council of Practices and Standards, Board of Directors, 2010 – 2012.

Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Hockessin, Delaware, Deputy Regional Coordinator - National Capital Region 2013 – 2015. As a volunteer leader supporting Veterans’ and Warriors’ physical and emotional rehabilitation through fly fishing state-wide.

SELECTED PAPERS AND PUBLICATONS

Authored many papers, articles and reports with several published in Risk Management and Professional Safety Magazines, and ASSE’s Practice Specialty newsletters. Award wining papers and articles were recognized by the National Safety Council, the Veterans of Safety and the ASSE Council of Practices and Standards.

Pearson, G.W., the Cost of Uncertainty, Nanotechnology Could Be Risky Business, ASSE Council of Practices and Standards SHE Report, Vol.2 No.3. Fall 2007

Pearson, G.W., White Paper, Guidance for Evaluating Nanotechnology Risk, ASSE Risk Management and Insurance Practice Specialty Newsletter, Spring 2007

Pearson, G.W., White Paper, Controlling the Risk of Violence in the Retail Workplace, ASSE Risk Management and Insurance Practice Specialty Newsletter, Spring 2005

Pearson, G.W., Assessing Comparative Passive Risk for Space Operations, a compilation of risk assessment benchmarks from government reports that quantify risks to which the public is exposed and accepts passively, NASA Office of Mission Assurance and Safety, Fall 1999

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