Safety Program Administrator

PROFILE

Certified Safety Professional® skilled at identifying safety problems, developing solutions, implementing controls, and conducting follow up. Successful in the application of ergonomics, behavioral safety, machine safeguarding, fall prevention, manual material handling task evaluation, accident investigation, accident analysis, accident prevention program installation and auditing, cost benefit analysis, motor vehicle safety, and construction job preplanning.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP, Rochester, NY 1972 – 2007

Consultant, Loss Prevention Department

• Managed accident prevention service to the locations of a large, national vegetable canner by analyzing accident trends for loss sources, developing solutions, advising corporate management, preparing a service plan, and directing 7 field consultants in the implementation of the service plan. This resulted in all 23 facilities improving their accident frequencies to where they were 80% better than their counterparts as listed by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

• Coordinated the largest ergonomic evaluation of computer workstations ever done by a private company in the United States. A plan of action was developed with the corporate office and a task force of consultants assessed over 5,000 workstations at 70 locations. Changes in workstation layout, equipment, and employee training reduced the number of claims by 75% by minimizing exposure to cumulative trauma disorders of the upper extremities.

• Directed the company-wide evaluation of machine safeguarding for a national food processor and then developed and presented a customized machine safeguarding seminar for plant supervision and management. This lowered the frequency and severity of their machine claims in four years, reducing their machine accidents from 36% of their frequency and 47% of their dollar losses to less than 2% of their frequency and losses.

• Introduced a safety observation program for a 3,300 employee hospital to address their top loss source of medical personnel becoming injured during patient assistance activities. Trained management and staff in the techniques through workshops. Then an “Ergonomics Champion” program that used specially-trained staff in each unit to be a “go to” person for patient assistance techniques was implemented. This program resulted in a 52% reduction in losses and 34% reduction in frequency after 3 years. Patient care improved as a result of having fewer personnel off the job because of injury.

• Developed a plan for a regional commercial truck rental and leasing company to improve their employee accident experience in their maintenance shops. It encompassed involving the CEO, making safety program improvements, providing management safety training, providing employee safety training, and conducting location audits. After 2 years, accident frequency fell 67% and accident costs were reduced 73%.

• Provided accident analyses, made store visits, obtained management commitment, and submitted program improvement recommendations to eliminate lacerations in the store deli departments of a supermarket chain. Cuts fell from 22% of the department accidents to zero within 6 months after implementation of the program.

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LIBERTY MUTUAL GROUP (Continued)

• Developed and presented a session entitled, “Product Liability and Instruction Manuals” at the request of the Rochester area chapters of the Society for Technical Communication, the Industrial Designers Society of America, and the Human Factors Society to provide their members with an awareness of their critical role in preventing product injuries and claims.

• Initiated, coordinated, and facilitated a one-day forum for the health care industry on current accident prevention techniques. The topics were patient and resident assistance, safety programming, benchmarking, and behavioral safety observation techniques. The attendee rating for the forum as 4.7 out of 5.

• Co-facilitated a presentation for 41 attendees about how to create an effective disability management program that received an attendee rating of 4.6 out of 5.

• Facilitated two-day train-the-trainer sessions for driver trainers on a yearly basis that covered driver qualification, driver trainer qualification, driver coaching, traffic situations, skid control, and practice teaching. They involved both classroom and hands-on activities in a vehicle on the road.

• Conducted customer employee and management training on accident prevention topics such as productive accident investigation, fall prevention, the true cost of accidents, accident prevention program audits, repetitive motion injuries, and job hazard analysis.

EDUCATION

BS, Industrial Technology, Ohio University, Athens, OH

TRAINING, MEMBERSHIPS AND CERTIFICATION

Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers

Past president of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the American Society of Safety Engineers

Certified Safety Professional® by the Board of Certified Safety Professionals

Proficient with Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Internet

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