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Substance Abuse Counselor

Location:
New Orleans, LA
Posted:
February 14, 2025

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Resume:

Noreen M Rock

225-***-**** ***********@*****.***

OBJECTIVE

To obtain a position with an organization that will enable me to grow professionally while contributing to the ongoing development of a healthy safety culture through coaching and accountability. I believe that my strong organizational skills and the attention to details coupled with my good people skills will allow me to achieve this affectively.

TRAINING / CERTIFICATION

OSHA 10, 30, & 510

Hazard Communication

EMT - expired

TWIC # 19848892

AIHA Industrial Hygiene

Body Substance Isolation

US Passport

40 Hour Radiation Safety

Emergency Vehicle Safe Driving

Security Passport

HAZWOPER 40

HAZMAT Fire Fighting – LSU

COSS # 31755148

CPR/ First Aid

Fire Fighter I - LSU

NCCER – Field Safety

Preparing Workplace for COVID-19

Heavy Equipment Rescue - LSU

Safety Technology

Developing COVID Prevention Program

Substance Abuse Counselor

CSST

Navigating OSHA Record-ability

Demolition Safety

CSSS

Basic Plus

Education

Associates of Arts – DELGADO College – New Orleans, LA – Educational Interpreting for the Deaf

Substance Abuse Counselor – LA State Board of Certified Substance Abuse Counselors

Alliance Safety Council # 120******* – Several Certifications and site-specific courses completed

Association of Reciprocal Safety Council of Brazosport #448649 – Site specific courses completed

Houston Area Safety Council # 198******* – General Safety site specific & Respirator fit testing

MD4U Foundation Safety Training Inc. – NCCER training and OSHA 510 Training

OSHAcademy Training – Construction Safety & Health Professional – 192 Hours ongoing

Work History

MMR - Safety Coordinator

1/22 – 9/23 completed each project

Dublin OH, Phoenix AZ, San Antonio TX

Choice Rescue & Safety – Safety Manag.

6/21 – present (when Needed)

Pasadena TX – several sites

Prime Safety Management – HS&E Man.

11/20 – 5/21 Completed project

GE Fort Edwards NY – demolition job

OilPatch NDT – HS&E Director

9/19 – 3/20 Covid Cutbacks

Pasadena TX – Corporate office

ISI / Brand Safeway – Safety Tech

4/19 – 6/19 completed project

Valero Houston TX – Refractory

Versa Integrity Group – Safety Lead (pm)

4/18 – 4/19 Job completed

FLNG LQF Freeport TX – X-Ray & NDT

SIM / Brand Safeway – Site Safety Lead

10/17 – 4/18 completed several jobs

Gonzales LA – Refractory

Performance Contractors – Safety Tech

11/16 – 8/17 completed turnaround

DOW Plaquemine LA Emp.#40003449

Wyatt Field Services – Safety Tech

6/16 – 10/16 completed turnaround

EXXON Baton Rouge LA

Elite Turnaround Services – Safety Att.

4/16 – 6/16 completed shut-down

Sinclair Refinery Casper WY

Turner Industry – Safety Attendant

10/15 – 4/16 completed turnaround

Shell Motivate Convent LA

Furnace & Tubes Service – Safety Tech

10/15 – 11/15 completed turnaround

Gregory Power Plant Corpus Cristi TX

Turner Industry – Safety Attendant

8/15 – 11/15 completed turnaround

HONEYWELL Hopewell VA

ABL Industries – Project Safety Manager

10/15 – 11/14 Business closed

Carencro LA

AmSpec LLC – Office Manager

2/11 – 10/14

Gonzales LA

Bureau Veritas/Inspectorate-Office Man.

2/14 – 10/08

Lutcher LA

Gulf Coast Testing – Laboratory Manager

2008 - 2011

Gonzales LA

Hutch’s Ace Hardware – Office Manager

2005 - 2008

Prairieville LA

O’Brien House – Subst. Abuse Counselor

2007 - 1996

Baton Rouge LA

St Christopher’s Halfway House – Chef

1996 - 1992

Baton Rouge LA

Acadian Ambulance – EMT

1991 - 1984

Morgan City – Plaquemine LA

Experience

Knowledge of OSHA 1910 & 1926 – utilize this information to access specific job activities for safe work assessments. Work with management and safety department to create specific safety programs as needed to ensure the safety of employees. Confirm compliance with OSHA rules and regulations.

Maintain records of inspections of all safety equipment, including but not limited to fall protection equipment, fire extinguishers, and all other safety equipment.

Conduct safety meetings with all employees to provide regular job site training and bring up awareness of trends in industries. Utilize BEHAVIOR BASED SAFETY training to improve the safety culture.

Maintain safety records of incident investigations (near misses, first aids recordable & loss time incidents) also keep track on OSHA 300 Log and ISNet World record keeping experience.

Conduct field audits of crews working, observe and document the utilization of good body kinetics and procedures. Evaluation of all required documentation – JSA, Permits, Equipment Inspection & SOP documents.

Maintain inventory of all PPE and consumables. Ensure good condition and expiration dates, as well as quarterly inspection of all fall arrest harnesses, as well as individual employee’s training and dates of expiration.

Write and implement site specific programs to ensure the safety of all employee’s and compliance with management and contract requirements.

To coach each and every employee to make safety personal to them. Work to develop a coaching safety culture that employees can take ownership to reduce the number of incidents on the job site.

Experience and training in Demolition safety.

Knowledge of preparing the workplace for COVID-19 and other contagious viruses. Knowledge of developing COVID prevention programs for the work environments.

Working with safety requirements for Non-Destructive Testing including Radiation Safety Programs.

Ability to identify and address with input from Human Resource any issues of substance abuse on the job site and suggest proper intervention.

Conduct training on fall arrest systems, the inspection and maintenance of required equipment.

Develop and implement a positive safety culture.

Write incident reports on near misses, first aids, safety violations and any other necessary reports.

Provide first aid care and case management for minor incidents.

Participate in Internal Audits, Field Audits and Safety Notices.

Review and modify safety policies as required and initiate an incentive program for the improvement of the safety culture. Work with other site safety personnel and project management to enforce policies through training, enforcement and discipline.

Investigate all incidents and near misses, prepare reports detailing causes and remedies with management and safety department.

Daily job site visits to assist project managers, general foremen, or site supervision in identifying and abating exposures to employees. Accurate records of these visits to be kept with hazards and abatement notes.

Performing various negative exposure assessments to include noise monitoring, heat or cold stress and employee health monitoring.

Heat stress monitoring using digital thermometer. Monitor local weather sites for any upcoming hazardous weather conditions, ie: rain, lightening, hail or excess heat etc.

Personal monitoring for hazardous air conditions; Cadmium, H2S, harmful O2 conditions.

Mercury monitoring using mercury vapor analyzers. Personal sampling using BDX II pumps, passive personal samplers using diffusion samplers.

Monitor and track radiation exposures of employees doing field x-ray.

Safety Attendant

Work outside of confined spaces and was responsible for monitoring and protecting the workers entering

the confined space and informing rescue team, if required, while assigned to jobs inside oil and gas refineries or

petrochemical plants. I also served and a hazard watch, watching for specific hazards as it related to the task at hand and

assisted the safety representative in observation and documentation of hazards for specific crafts. Reviewed JSA’s so that I

could get a picture of the tasks they were preforming and the safeguards that they had put in place. Shadowing the safety

tech in order to learn. It was considered on the job training to become a safety technician or representative after obtaining

my NCCER 100-hour certifications.

Safety Representative

I tracked and documented accidents to understand causes and recommend changes to prevent future accidents. Perform inspections and audit facilities, equipment and processes recommending corrections or additional precautions to ensure compliance to established regulations.

Site Safety Lead

In addition to the duties of a safety representative I was also responsible for the over site of the other safety technicians including scheduling and timesheets. Also update safety technicians on job tasks for the day or high risk situations that were scheduled like critical lifts or long x-ray shots.

Safety Manager

Worked to prevent workplace accidents and promote health and safety awareness as will as education of fellow employees. Responsible for making sure that employees follow health and safety laws and creating policies and procedures for a safer work environment. I was also responsible for conduction root cause investigation and reporting those findings to my superiors in addition to the client. I was responsible for all case management to include incident reporting and classification. Maintaining OSHA logs and reporting as well maintaining ISNet World recordings.

Health & Safety Manager

Directed, developed and oversee the general health and safety policies and procedures of the organization. Ensure that the workplace (to include all job sites) was in compliance with OSHA, state, local and industry specific regulations and that periodic safety audits were conducted, those audit results were shared companywide with and clients. Reviewing data to learn when and where we were having issues so that we could implement corrective actions. Reviewed all accidents, incidents and near misses drafted the relevant corrective actions and issue the appropriate company-wide safety bulletins. Followed up to ensure that corrective actions we implemented correctly.

REFERENCES

Sidney Woods

PSS Site Safety Manager

985-***-****

David Hutchison

Down the Bayou Charters

225-***-****

Larry Womack

LS Womack – retired

225-***-****

Melissa Nichols

Choice Rescue & Safety

832-***-****

Janet Mackay

Ascension Parish School Board

225-***-****

Jennifer Dejon

Louis Mechanical

225-***-****



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