Sr Regional Safety Health Environmental Manager

Rebecca Perez Torres

Sr Safety Health and Environmental

939-***-**** ************@********.***

Urb. Pradera del Rio, 3144 Rio Cocal St. Toa Alta PR 00953 Excellent work, in challenging jobs with the integration of work team; with strong leadership skills and extensive knowledge in the field of safety, health and environmental. Excellent time management and great organizational capacity. Twenty (24+) years of experience working in Safety, Health and Environmental, specialized in construction projects. OSHA certified Construction Outreach Trainer since 2005 to conduct 10-30-hour construction outreach trainings. Experience in staff supervision. Performance of safety audits and inspections, job hazard analysis, accident investigation, file maintenance and OSHA 300 record keeping. Reports with safety, health and environmental recommendations helping the employer to comply with federal, state and company regulatory standards as needed. Use of USACE standard EM 385-1-1 in federal projects. Always thinking about safeguarding human life and the interests of the company. December 2021 to Present

Lemartec PR, San Juan PR

Area Safety Manager

Responsible for developing, leading, organizing, monitoring, implementing, and sustaining safety, health and environmental policies and procedures as to ensure that programs follow safety and health laws and regulations. To reduce or prevent hazards, dangers, and accidents. Ensure employee compliance around safety, health and environmental in routine company documents such as heat stress, task hazard assessment, auto inspection checklist when visiting the field. Evaluated and conducts audit inspections construction sites at projects to identify potential hazards, assess their risk, report on them, and enforce compliance with policies and regulations. Assist in accident investigation, file maintenance, OSHA 300 record keeping, working with the worker’s compensation and early return to work program, and organized meetings. Developing the emergency responses program, update it on a yearly basis and performed in the same period the fire drill, earthquake, and other drills according to potential emergency situations. Supervisor of site safety officers. Work and following with the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, SWWPP, EPA, PREPA (connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, rain system, among others.

As Project Safety Supervisor, work in the following project:

-Rehabilitation of the Morovis Sur Water Treatment Plant Project, Morovis, PR. A $39 million project.

Duration: 01/2024 to present

-Head Start Program Project, Mayaguez, PR. A $18 million project. Duration: 12/2022 to present

-IGWWTPP, PRASA, Guayama, PR A $80 million project. Duration: 10/2022 to present

-Short Columns School, AFI, San Juan, PR. A $32 million project. Duration: 12/2021 to 12/2022

Total years of experience

24+

Education

B.S., Industrial Engineering,

Polytechnic University of Puerto

Rico, 1997

Certifications

10/30 Hour Construction

Outreach Trainer, since 2005

OSHA 502

OSHA 500

OSHA 510

OSHA 30 Hour

OSHA 10 Hour

FEMA Badge Contractor

Dept. of Homeland Security (Exp.

02/2024)

Professional affiliations

Association of General Contractors

of America, Safety Committee

Puerto Rico Accident Prevention

Professional Society, Safety

Committee

Software

Microsoft® Office

Professional development

OSHA 5600 Disaster Site Worker

Trainer

ICS 100 Introduction Incident

Command System (FEMA)

Hazwoper 40 Hrs

OSHA 502, Construction Outreach

Trainer Refresh

New guidelines for Occupational

Health and Safety programs, OSHA

OSHA 300, OSHA

Occupational Health and Safety

Law, OSHA

Beryllium Certification, OSHA

Silica Certification, OSHA

Silica standard in General industry

and construction, OSHA

10-hour General Industry

Hazard Communication

S H for Mechanical Workshops

S H for Warehouses

S H for Restaurants and Fast Food

-US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Puerto Rico Department of Housing CDBG-DR Housing Program for Hurricanes Irma, and Maria. Barceloneta to Mayaguez, PR. A $20 million project. Duration: 12/2021 to 12/2022

August 2020 to November 2021

Safety Health Environmental Professional Services, San Juan, PR Independent Consultant

Visual audits and inspections evaluating the workplace. Make documents according to the need of the construction project. Prepare audit and inspection reports with safety, health and environmental recommendations complying with federal, state and company regulations. Use of USACE standard EM 385-1-1 in federal projects. Safety, health and environment trainings as necessary. Professional staff fully trained to meet the employer needs such as prevention and potential hazards in the workplace. Audits in safety procedures such as but not limited to job hazard analysis, exploratory, excavations, concrete piles, confined spaces, scaffolding, fall protection, lifting of loads and more. Work and following with the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, SWWPP, EPA, PREPA (connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, Rain system, among others. Assistance in accident investigation, file maintenance and OSHA 300 record keeping. As SHE Independent Consultant, work in the following project:

-Phase 5 Parking Garage, VA Caribbean Healthcare System, San Juan, PR. A $50 million project. Use of USACE standard EM 385-1-1. Duration: 07/2021 to 11/2021

-Cogeneration Plant, Cooper Vision, Juana Diaz, PR. A $30 million project. Duration: 08/2020 to 11/2020

-Forward Center Building, IG Builders Corp., San Juan, PR. A $6 million project. Three-story commercial building.

Duration: 08/2020 to 08/2021

Feb. 2018 to July 2020

Atkins Caribe, San Juan, PR

Safety Health Environmental Manager

Responsible for developing, leading, organizing, monitoring, implementing and sustaining safety, health and environmental policies and procedures as to ensure that programs follow safety and health laws and regulations. To reduce or prevent hazards, dangers, and accidents. Ensure employee compliance around safety, health and environmental in routine company documents such as heat stress, task hazard assessment, auto inspection checklist when visiting the field. Evaluated and conducts inspections construction sites at projects to identify potential hazards, assess their risk, report on them, and enforce compliance with policies and regulations. Assist in accident investigation, file maintenance, OSHA 300 record keeping, working with the worker’s compensation and early return to work program; and organized meetings. Developing the emergency responses program, update it on a yearly basis and performed in the same period the fire drill, earthquake and other drills according to potential emergency situations. Supervisor of safety officers. Work and following with the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, S H for Medical Hospital Services

First Aid and CPR Certificate

EEO Laws and Discrimination

Prevention

Unlawful Harassment Prevention

Unlawful Harassment Prevention

Supervisor Supplement

Mobile Crane Operator training

Suspended Scaffold

Powered Industrial Trucks Operator

Most common risks in the

Construction Industry (Electrical

Incident, Falls, Struck By, Trenching

and Excavation)

Occupational accident investigation

New regulations use of cranes in

construction

Stormwater Professional

Regulation for Elevator and Boiler,

Regulation no.18

Regulation Boiler and Pressure

Vessel, Regulation no.17

Electrical hazards in the workplace

Personal protection in welding

processes

Safety and health in steel

construction

Safety and health in the use of

scaffolding

Use and handling of forklifts

How to prepare in emergency plan

Cutting and welding in construction

Occupational hazards that affect

health

PPE in the construction industry

General health and safety

requirements for contractors

Registry of injuries and illnesses-

form OSHA 300

Violence in the workplace

How to develop in health and safety

program and the effective

participation of employees

Scope of identification and risk

management in construction

Cranes Lifting Plans

How to develop an Occupational

safety and health program

How to handle employee

absenteeism and claims covered

under ESF, Sinot, ACAA, FMLA,

ADA, among others

Legal aspects and practices in the

termination of employment

Occupational noise

Cranes and Critical lifting

Indoor Air Quality

Pathogens transmitted by blood

Environmental Aspects of the

Puerto Rico Penal Code

Safety and health for wood workers

SWWPP, EPA, PREPA (connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, rain system, among others.

As SHE Manager, worked in the following projects:

-US Department of Housing and Urban Development, Puerto Rico Department of Housing CDBG-DR Housing Program for Hurricanes Irma and Maria. A $23 million project.

Duration: 07/2019 to 07/2020.

-PR Hazard Mitigation Plan, PR. A $5 million project. Duration: 01/2019 to 07/2020.

-Federal Highway Administration / Eastern Federal lands Highway div. / Puerto Rico Highway and Transportation Authority, PR. Duration: 11/2018 to 07/2020.

-Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Hurricane Irma and Maria in PR. Individual Assistance- Technical Assistance Contract (IA-TAC) Puerto Rico, DL – Direct lease, MLR Multi lease repair, Task Order 1 – Assessments, Task Order 2 - Permanent Housing Construction (PHC). A $60 million project. Duration: 02/2018-8/2019

Feb. 2016 to Feb. 2018

Safety Health Environmental Professional Services, San Juan, PR Independent Consultant

Performed visual inspection, evaluated the workplace, and created the safety, health and environmental program. Prepared and submitted inspection reports with safety health environmental recommendations and conducted trainings for employees as needed. Work and following the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, SWWPP, EPA, PREPA

(connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, concrete piles, rain system, among others. Assistance in accident investigation, file maintenance and OSHA 300 record keeping.

As SHE Independent Consultant, work in the following projects:

-Vanderbilt Condo Hotel, Rest. & SPA, Bird Group LLC, Condado, PR. A $50 million project.

-Ciudadela Phase III, residential, commercial and parking buildings, Bird Group LLC, Santurce, P.R. A $85 million project.

-Palacio Provincial Hotel, Bird Group LLC, Old San Juan, PR. A $12 million project.

-Dave & Busters, Bird Group LLC, Bayamon, PR.

-JCPenney, Bird Group LLC, Hatillo, PR.

-Plaza Palma Real, Bird Group LLC, Humacao, PR.

-Walgreens, Bird Group LLC, Old San Juan, PR

Oct. 2011 to Jan. 2016

DRAGADOS USA, San Juan, PR

Safety Health Environmental Manager

Responsible for developing, leading, organizing, monitoring, implementing, sustaining the safety, health and environmental program and procedures, Environmental Management System ISO-14001, and Occupational Health and Safety Management System OHSAS-18001. Evaluated and inspected construction sites; investigated all accidents, file maintenance, OSHA 300 record Puerto Rico Occupational Safety

and Health Act-law 16 of 1975

Electrical Standards

Basic Accident investigation OSHA

Inspector

Construction Standards OSHA

Inspector

Inspection Techniques and legal

Aspects OSHA Inspector

Steel structure Standards

Initial compliance course OSHA

inspector

Skills to speak to a hearing

Intro to safety standards for safety

officers10 hours of training and

occupational safety OSHA

keeping, working with the worker’s compensation and early return to work program; organized meetings and trainings that promoted safety. Developing the emergency responses program, update it on a yearly basis and performed in the same period the fire drill, earthquake and other drills according to potential emergency situations. Supervisor of safety officers. Work and following the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, SWPP, EPA, PREPA (connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, work under the water table, demolition, excavation, steel sheet pile wall, pile wall, confluence wall, steel pipe, sewer siphon, waterline, channel dredging, wing walls, cofferdam, box culvert, secant pile wall, rain system. Safety was performed using the US Army Corps of Engineers EM 385-1-1 standard.

As SHE Manager, worked in the following project:

-Rio Puerto Nuevo Flood Control Project, San Juan, PR. A $80 million Project. Contract 2A-Lower Margarita Channel, 2AR-Channel Excavation, 2AA-Bechara Industrial Area and Bechara Mid-Section, Channel STA 22+60 to STA 29+80 Bechara Industrial Area. Project was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Project won the Safety Award “Door to Door in the construction”, granted by the Department of Labor in the division of PROSHA. Section 2A: Construction of steel pipe, pile wall, confluence wall, a steel sheet pile wall at the Margarita confluence, relocation of the San Jose Sewer Siphon and 36-inch waterline, and channel dredging.

Section ARRA 2AR: Excavation of the channel along the Margarita Channel, a confluence wall, and the dredging of the lower Puerto Nuevo channel. Demolition of the existing confluence wall, construction of a new confluence wall, revetment, grade control structures, dredging and excavation. Section 2AA: Box Culvert: Construction included a secant pile wall box culvert, which was the last 300 feet of the culvert near the port facilities bulkhead and the open channel work north of Kennedy Avenue. Bechara Middle Section: Construction includes an approximately 720-feet earth channel between the existing box culvert and Kennedy Avenue Bridge, includes deep soil mixing and relocation of the existing 90-inch diameter sanitary sewer line. Jan. 2005 to Sept. 2011

Bird Construction Co. Inc., San Juan, PR

Safety Health Environmental Manager

Responsible for developing, leading, organizing, administering, monitoring, implementing and sustaining the safety, health and environmental program and procedures. Evaluated and inspected construction sites; investigated all accidents, file maintenance, OSHA 300 record keeping, working with the worker’s compensation and early return to work program; organized meetings and trainings. Developing the emergency responses program, update it on a yearly basis and performed in the same period the fire drill, earthquake and other drills according to potential emergency situations. Supervisor of safety officers. The construction projects carried out were residential buildings, commercial buildings and multi-level parking lots.

Work and following the procedures of the Department of Natural and Environmental Resources, Environmental Quality Board, Department of Transportation and Public Works, PRASA (sanitary pipes, potable water pipes, sewer connection, pipe extension, manhole), CES Plan, SWWPP, EPA, PREPA

(connection and disconnect points, underground cables), Dewatering plan, work under the water table, concrete piles. Green construction projects, rain water retention pond cistern, among others.

As SHE Manager, worked in the following projects:

-Bristol Condominium, Ashford Ave., Condado, San Juan, PR A $50 million project.

Project received from the”Colegio de Ingenieros y Agrimesores de PR the

“Outstanding Construction Project Award” in 2007.

Duration: 2005-2007

-Remodeling and Additions to Popular Center Commercial Area and Parking Garage - Phase I, Munoz Rivera Ave. 208, Hato Rey, PR. A $30 million project. Duration: 2005-2007

-Remodeling and Additions to Popular Center Commercial Area and Parking Garage - Phase II, Munoz Rivera Ave. 208, Hato Rey, PR. A 35 million project. Project won the safety award “Door to Door in the construction”, granted by the Department of Labor in the division of PROSHA. Duration: 2005-2010

-Aquabella Town House, Palmas Del Mar, Humacao, PR. A $50 million Project. Duration: 2005-2008

-Ocean View Condominium, Isla Verde, Carolina, PR. A $30 million Project. Duration: 2005-2008

-Terrazas of Parque Escorial Walk-up, Parque Escorial, Carolina, PR. A $30 million Project.

Duration: 2005-2008

-Acquamarina Condominium, Ashford Ave., Condado, San Juan, PR. A $60 million project.

Duration: 2005-2009

-Headquarter of Bird Construction, San Alfonso Ave., San Juan, PR. Duration: 2006-2007

-Paradise Chalets, Rio Grande, PR Project won the safety award “Door to Door in the construction”, granted by the Department of Labor in the division of PROSHA. A $43 million project.

Duration: 2006-2009

-Ciudadela Phase I, Residential, Commercial and Parking Buildings, Ponce de Leon Ave. 1511, San Juan, PR. A $70 million project. Duration: 2006-2009

-Laguna Plaza Condominium, Paseo Caribe, Condado, PR. A $50 million project.

Duration: 2007-2009

Vanderbilt Condo Hotel, Ashford Ave. 1051, Condado, PR. A $100 million project.

Duration: 2007-2011

-Ciudadela Phase II, Residential, Commercial and Parking Buildings, Ponce de Leon Ave. 1511, San Juan, PR Project won the safety award “Door to Door in the construction”, granted by the Department of Labor in the division of PROSHA. A $60 million project.

Duration: 2007-2011

-Vanderbilt Hotel, Ashford Ave. 1051, Condado, PR. A $120 million project Duration: 2009-2011

July 2000 – Jan 2005

Department of Labor and Human Resources, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Carolina and Arecibo, PR

Occupational Safety and Health Specialist/PROSHA Inspector Performed and conducted safety, health, hygiene, and ergonomic inspections to verify compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations at General Industry and Construction Industry. Evaluate all kinds of industry as well as private and governmental, such as construction projects (buildings, schools, housing, roads, highways), pharmaceuticals (manufacturing, clean rooms, pressure vessels), hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, restaurants, hotels, department stores, shopping malls, banks, government agencies, schools, universities, wood workshops, PRASA

(water treatment plants, potable water plant, sanitary pipes, potable water pipes), Chemical Plants, PREPA (connection and disconnection points), among others. Additional information or references upon request. Publications

Kierce, Tommy; Perez Torres, Rebecca, "A new Force with Proven Bird Traditions," Caribbean Business, June 2009, pp.1-4.

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