Safety Manager

Kenneth P. Matthews

***** **** ** ***** **, Texas 77510

***** ** ** **** ****** Texas

Cell: 281-***-****

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. Skills:

* Corporate Fire Marshall

N.C.C.E.R. Certified :

* Construction Site Safety Technician 100 hours,

* Construction Site Safety Supervisor 40 hours

* Field Safety 40 hours

* Safety Technology 40 hours

Auditing, Observation, and Inspection of

* Industrial Refinery,

* Industrial Hazardous Waste

* Industrial Chemical

* Industrial land treatment facility locations.

* Shipyard

* Drydock

* Blast yard

* Paint yard

* Warehouse

* Liquid oxygen storage

* propylene storage area

* oil rig

* ship projects

* Production Facility

* Docks and piers

* Haz-mat storage area

* Industrial waste stream

* Deepwater drilling floats(tbm’s) Christmas trees and bop’s

O.S.H.A .

* O.S.H.A .Letters of interpretation research

* O.S.H.A. Excavation Competent Person

* O.S.H.A .29 CFR. 1910, 1915 & 1926 + reference manuals

* O.S.H.A record keeping 300 &301

* O.S.H.A. recommended work schedule responsible person calculated using psychometric calculator and projected weather data

* O. S.H.A. required assured equipment grounding conductor program manager

* O.S.H.A. and N.I.O.S.H required respiratory protection program (8 hour option) manager

* N.I.O.S.H pocket guide and field guide to emergency responders

* N.F.P.A standards researcher

* R C.R. A. training

* Safety consulting

* Shipbuilding Safety Coordinator

* Ship repair and load out Safety Coordinator

* Job Safety Analysis, Job Risk Analysis and Task Safety Analysis plans

* Site Specific Environmental Safety & Health plans

* B.P. Control of Work performing authority for hot work spark potential, and cold work

* Lock Out Tag Out trained

* Jobsite Emergency Action plans

* Corporate Emergency Action plans,

* Jobsite and Fire Protection and Prevention plans

* Corporate, Fire Protection and Prevention plans

* Fire Watch

* Risk assessment

* TOPS accident Investigation

* Training for Industrial Personnel

* Inspection of Personnel, Equipment, Cargo, Vehicles and Worksite

* Safety Meetings Lead speaker

* Hazard Recognition, Evaluation and Control

* Noise dosimeter sampling, noise spectrum sampling

* Four gas and ionization monitoring detection of pinpoint, personnel, area, and site surveying.

Computer and Android Cell phone, Android Tablet power user because:

* Knowledge and intermediate use of the Microsoft Office Suite of Products

* Microsoft Front Page

* Microsoft Power Point

* Google Earth

* Open Office

* Turbo floor plan

* Project information manager

* Employee training tracker

* other commonly utilized software programs in the industrial safety field,

* android phone apps,[decibel spl meter],[ audilizer audio spectrum analyzer], [camscanner document scanner], [dropbox cloud file sync app.], [EMF hazard detector],[light tester],[my signals],[open signal wifi and cell tower finder],[quickoffice office suite],[sensor toolbox],[sketch it drawing app],[time recoding],[translate-text and voice translator],

Background check

Background check accomplished by Contractors Safety Council Texas City to the stringent requirements of British Petroleum Texas City standards.

Background check accomplished by United States Government to the stringent requirements of The Transportation Workers Information Credential Act. Department Of Homeland Security-

TWIC CARD expires 2014

Education & Certifications:

* N.C.C.E.R. certified

* Construction Site Safety Technician,

* Construction Site Safety Supervisor,

* Field Safety,

* Safety Technology May 2009

Department Of Homeland Security:

* Transportation Worker Identification Credential- TWIC CARD expires 2014

HOUSTON AREA SAFETY COUNCIL.

* 24 Hour HAZ-Whopper refresher 2008

British Petroleum Texas City Refinery

* CERCLA Training May 2009,

* Control Of Work Permitting Authority 2008,

OSHA

* OSHA Excavation competent person 2008.

Contractors Safety Council Texas City

* Basic + 10-2008,

* Fire Watch 3-2009,

* Fire Extinguisher Hands On 6-2009,

* Pulmonary Function Test 1-2009,

* Quantitative Fit Test 1-2009, I

* NEOS CBW site 10-2009,

* B.P. Texas City site 5-2009,

* FADV Background graded 10-2008

College Of The Mainland

* Welding Multiple Process (certificate of completion 96 hours) awarded on 05-16-2007

* Arson Investigator Course 1982,

* EMT basic

* Free Continuing education safety classes from the Risk Management Institute

Texas A&M University

* Graduated Fire Officer Development I (one) Course 1987

Texas City Fire Department

- 1980 to 2003 - Training 80 +hours yearly in each:

* Haz-Mat,

* High Angle rescue,

* Confined Space rescue,

* Water Rescue,

* A.l.o.h.a. hazardous materials database and plume plotting program.

* Completed 402 hours of Basic Firefighter

* 240 hours fire engineer training,

* As an Engineer, trained bi- monthly as a station and a shift bi-weekly in fire subjects for 23 years.

* Haz-Mat Technician

* With prior certification as;

* Haz-Mat responder

* Haz-Mat awareness levels.

* Completed a 40 hour Hazardous Materials Technician Course with the Texas City Fire Department on January 6- 10,2003, with specialization in four gas and ionization monitoring of pinpoint, area personnel and site surveying, leaking project interventions

* Trained weekly in hazardous materials in awareness, responder, Haz-Mat support and technician levels.

* Emergency Medical Technician -Basic: Certified EMT-B Personnel ID 143697 - Document 152988 Expired 05/31/2006,

* CPR Trainer: American Heart Association Health Care, Provider- Friends and Family CPR training and A.E.D. training. Expired 3/31/05.

Drug testing history

I have been certified drug free by the testing company’s for 28 years, it’s my lifestyle.

Employment History:

Gulf Copper Ship Repair and Dry Dock Sept 2011 - Present

Safety coordinator/Emergency Response Team Leader/First Aid Primary Care Person –senior

* Coordinate safety on vessel and in in ship repair yard 2 365’x 220’ dry docks and 3, r and 1/8 th mile piers A 250’ x 200’ plate shop, tool room, electrical shop, production facility, storage yard, paint yard, blast yard,

1, 90 ton crane

2, 50 ton cranes with Leffler’s.

2 hydraulic stick cranes

6 man lifts and

4 rough terrain fork lifts.

* Manage shipboard competent persons on second shift.

* Manage first aid clinic using EMT skills .

* Manage D.E.S.A. style drug testing of workers for cause and random testing..

* Accomplish safety walk through with supervisors on their projects.

* Walk facility for environmental, safety, access, security, and production headaches, and fix them.

* Review, recommend, audit, edit, and sign hot work permitting and JSA/JRA forms

* Certify and sign waste manifests and delivery manifests

* Discover opportunities for improvement, document, communicate, and publish to safety principals

* Attend and speak at safety meetings

* Interface with craft lead men foremen and superintendents to push the critical safety topics

* Attend production meeting and communicate that to the safety team members

* Investigate accidents and find solutions document findings and report to safety principals

* Conceive, Initiate, and develop Safety Sleuth-Find It and Fix It program

* Initiate B Safe Now safety slogan at the cost of 10 cents

* *Review recommend audit edit and sign Ventilation plans and Confined Space Entry logs.

* *Manage time sheets and time cards for those safety employees on my shift.

* *Receive directions through email and respond.

* *Interface with safety superintendent about upcoming projects, daily focus on special conditions personnel performance, scheduling etc.

* Fire extinguisher auditing and life ring auditing of facility assets displayed on Google Earth

* Post many safety signs about working conditions in both English and Spanish

* Developed and implemented the idea to use the verification board as a vehicle for safety signs or topics as workers are interfacing them many times thru out the day

* Made recommendation to safety principals to use cable trays for their intended purpose as an adjunct to Christmas trees and scaffolding for welding leads, electrical lines, fuel oxygen hoses, and argon hoses, air lines and blast hoses that eliminating both trip hazards and hanging overhead hoses.

Gulf Copper Site safety coordinator and construction or repair projects safety coordinator over

* Dry dock#1,

* Ships Boa Thalassa, Siem Swordfish, Global Orion, Global Pioneer, Normand Clipper, Kirt Choest ,Topaz Captain/ Boa Rover, and Picton

* The Alantic class barges Iguana 1, Zee barge 1, Crowley barge Marty J, and Pacific

* Construction projects safety coordinator over the floating drilling rig Ocean Saratoga, and production rig Viking Producer

* Site safety coordinator over Jack Up rigs Pride of Wisconsin, Pride of Tennessee, Project safety coordinator over Hercules 152, Ensco 60 or Jawhara 5,

* SITE Safety Coordinator over Rolls Royce positioning thrusters, Kværner deep sea Christmas trees 13&5/8” U.S. Mineral Management Service prepositioned deepwater TBM’s

* Project safety coordinator over Rig Moving Project involving Hercules 152 and AMT Voyager , loading Hercules 152 on to rig moving barge AMT Voyager for voyage to Trinidad from Galveston Texas.

* Project Safety Coordinator over Hercules 152 underwater fresh air mat cleanout involving

* H2s exposure potential

* Continual confined space air monitoring

* Confined space entry permit and cse log

* Rescue retrieval ropes and full harnesses

* Fresh air trailers and fresh air systems with 15 min escape pac

* Vacuum trucks

* Roll off truck vacuum boxes

* Underwater diver and welding

* Cofferdams

* Spoolpieces,

* Personnel entering the mat below the waterline to remove mud accumulation from the underwater mat of Hercules 152

Coordinate safety for up to 140 skilled craft working on vessel in ship repair yard. Manage first aid clinic using EMT skills for injury’s clinic visits, lost time, and light duty incidents. Escort ship employees from front gate to the gangway. Audit rescue boxes for completeness. Attend production meeting to discover what types of work will be accomplished on the shift and communicate that to the safety team members. Investigate accidents and make initial corrections and recommendations to safety principals for further corrections or action.Post many safety signs about working conditions in both English and Spanish ex; silicosis informational sign with graphics.

The lost time accidents days have gone from 0 to 84 days while I am a safety Coordinator. While it is a team effort, the consensus opinion from workers is that the jobsite is safer than before my arrival.

Gaia Environmental, May 2008 – July 2009

Hydrogelogist, OSHA Excavation Competent Person, Geotechnical Drilling Team Manager, Safety Supervisor, Safety Technician

* Hired on interview by the company owner and immediately placed in the field.

* Owners liaison to interface with 23 employees in the field.

* Implemented many procedural changes to streamline efficiency of newly acquired revenue streams.

* Quickly promoted to manager of the geotechnical drilling and hydrogeology teams.

* Excavation competent person certified.

* Sampled outfall waters for chemical plant regularly for 1482, TON, PHOS, TNK, 1664, COD, NAM, NO3, NO2, TOC, 608, 606 PCB, BOD, SHOA- 625, MBAS, COLOR, SO4, CQD, FL, BR, COLOR, SULFIDE, CBOD, TSS, TRC, TDS, METALS 200.8/CR3, CYANIDE, FECAL, AND CR6.,

* Field investigated and reported water well locations with Google earth, MS Excel and GPS and certified results for reporting to State of Texas.

* Utilized YSI 600 multiparameter sondes with flow cell and YSI 650 mds hand held data logger water sampling computer, for DO, ORP, COND, TEM and collected samples with Geotech Geopump 2 peristaltic groundwater pump.

* Labeled samples and created chain of custody documents for lab analysis.

* Developed monitoring wells with dc turbine pump.

* Bedded ceramic cup lysimeters in silica flour beds inside soil plots and used unconventional tubing to connect to monitoring stations.

* Used depth to water and depth to product interface probe to determine those levels inside the refinery and at the Texas City LTF land farm facility.

* Maintained on a daily basis B.P. Texas City Refinery’s 32 hydrocarbon recovery wells, used to recover lost refined hydrocarbon liquids floating on top of the water table under the refinery.

* At the Refinery’s hazardous waste land farm facility, Managed the Geotechnical drilling crew, using Foremost Mobile B-61 drill truck, hollow core augers, and split spoon sample retriever, extracted quantified and packaged below z.o.i. soil core samples.

* Managed drill crew during well over drill replacement including sand bedding, bentonite clay sealing, Portland cement cap, cement well pad, well protector, and bollard work.

* Operated Photo ionizing device, tested air for verification of below action levels of benzene and other V.O.C.’s. over soil plots. Advised drill crew when to doff and don half mask respirators and organic vapor cartridges.

* Evaluated soil at drill site for peak V.O.C.’s and advised drill crew of truck orientation to reduce exposure. Interfaced with engineers operators and job reps on locations for geotechnical drilling of soil cores, including consulting old 5010 drafting drawings for possible underground obstructions ,used divining rods for obstruction identification, line of sight alignment of footings, slabs and below ground penetrations, and directing probing of ground down to 6’.

* I achieved a 100% safety record as manager

* Directed maintenance of Foremost Mobil drill truck mod. B-61 during off season, including specifications for replacement truck chassis, refusal to approve the purchase a undersized g.v.w. chassis for replacement, insisting on a like and kind replacement for safety’s sake

* Used welding automotive technology, and metal working skills and my own personal tools, cut and directed hydraulic crane removal of the 17,300 lb. drilling bed and mast from the original truck frame

* Rigged and directed the heavy crane lifting of the drill bed off and onto the new chassis

* Designed, specified and directed the installation of the drilling bed extension, Including placement of water tote, stabilizing hydraulic cylinder frame mount, headache rack etc

* Directed installation of a self compensating auto hammer for spl blow count during slit spoon retrieval of samples.

* Soft soldered 7” crack in radiator top cap.

* I was approached by Company owner and director of operations to become The Company’s first safety technician, in its newly created safety division, a B.P. Requirement.

* Trained in N.C.C.E.R’s Construction Site Safety Technician (100 hrs) safety class in a brutal accelerated learning schedule.

* Complimented several times by course instructor for insight and past personal experiences that were shared with the group.

* Time shifted work hours to minimize impact on company operating capital, then responded to company’s need to represent them at contractor safety meetings and contractor audit team events during scheduled off time, all while attending 6 hour training sessions in the afternoons and evenings

* Managed field safety over BP Texas City refinery In Plant Services , Hazardous and Non Hazardous waste streams, Universal waste stream, SDU Environmental Facility team, Geotechnical drilling crew, Hydrocarbon Recovery Well Service, Texas City LTF land treatment facility, and corporate safety over the Corporate office

* Appointed Fire Marshall, over the Corporate Office by Director of Operations.

* Accomplished all fire related monthly inspections, audits and reporting.

* Maintained MSDS database electronically and at employee access location.

* Created emergency response evacuation plan with diagrams for muster points, evacuation paths and represented plan graphically in Google Earth.

* Supplied personal software and drafted building evacuation plan in Instant Architect Turbo Floor plan

* Discovered free continuing education classes at Gulf Coast Safety Institute, and attended on alternating Fridays, thus Increasing my education in the field of safety at no direct cost to the company

* Provided my own personal transportation to locations where employees were stationed due to no vehicles available for the safety departments use.

* Provided my own personal laptop to conduct company business with. Accomplished a safe work environment with a zero dollar safety budget.

* Provided my own frc’s, steel toed boots and other personal protection equipment.

* Achieved above and beyond for company success.

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