Manager Safety

KEVIN L. PHILLIPS, CET

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Safety Management Professional with 10+ years of experience in safety management, safety training and consulting, and written program development for construction and general industry.

ON-SITE SAFETY MANAGEMENT • CONSULTING • SAFETY AUDITS • TRAINING • SAFETY COMMITTEE DEVELOPMENT • ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience providing quality safety training, consulting, and management to many Fortune 100 companies, US government agencies, and state/local service groups.

• Skillfully managed safety partnership/relationship with Fluor Global Services, Alcoa, and Voith Hydro on several multi-million dollar projects.

• Solid experience in all phases of safety management including written program development, safety audits/scored inspections/mock OSHA inspections, accident and incident investigations.

• 10+ years of experience writing, developing and teaching site-specific safety/environmental programs for all OSHA, EPA and DOT compliance.

• Boundless energy, capable of adopting a number of roles simultaneously.

• Exceptional problem solver, with strong interpersonal and negotiation skills.

• Superb mentor and leader in behavioral-based safety administration, inspires employees to maintain peak performance and productivity while adhering to all safety/environmental rules and regulations.

• Assumes both authoritative and democratic leadership, able to turn vision into reality.

• Natural instructor with excellent communication and training skills.

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SELECTED CAREER ACHIEVEMENTS

ON-SITE SAFETY MANAGEMENT

• Effectively managed all aspects of safety for crews at several Alcoa hydro-electric generation plants. Developed and administered all safety training and orientation for the employees, conducted weekly-scored safety audits with Fluor/Alcoa, provided daily leadership starting with morning “tail-gate” meetings and oversight throughout the day. Chartered and chaired Safety Committees.

• Managed safety for clean-up crews in New Orleans, LA in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

• Set up initial safety programs for the Kuwaiti Oil Company, Kuwait

• Worked with CEO’s and Human Resources Generalists to develop company-specific safety programs.

TRAINING

• Developed and administered first OSHA Awareness course for over 1000 postmasters and supervisors in the Greater NYC area.

• Trained hundreds of industrial HAZMAT teams, fire brigades and rescue squads in the US and abroad in all aspects of emergency response .

• Wrote and administered first-ever Incident Command course for the US Civil Air Patrol

• Personally trained over 32,000 students in a wide variety of OSHA-required courses.

• Wrote and developed Train-the-Trainer courses for dozens of Fortune 500 companies.

BOTTOM LINE

Considered by clients and peers to be one of the most effective, innovative, engaging safety professionals/trainers in the Southeast.

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MARKETING / SALES

• Built Shelby Environmental Services into a highly recognized training and consulting firm with a great reputation for delivering quality safety/environmental programs to clients’ employees. Marketed all services by effectively targeting specific companies through direct marketing, mailings, advertising.

• Developed direct-mail system that produced 2% return.

• Aggressively closed 80% of all cold-call responses over a 10+ year career.

TEAM BUILDING / LEADERSHIP

• Provided superior leadership in the development and training of Safety Committees for many Fortune 500 companies, several large construction firms and government agencies.

• Inspired out-of-the-box approach to emergency response at many locations.

• Provided outstanding leadership and guidance to many start-up HAZMAT emergency response teams throughout the country and in Kuwait.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Safety Manager March 2007 - present

Voith Hydro, Inc. Badin, NC

Senior Program Manager / Trainer / Consultant November 1986 -March 2007

Shelby Environmental Training Assoc. Shelby, NC

Site-Safety Manager October 2006 – November 2006

Earth Tech Remediation Services New Orleans, LA

Rated Navigator / Safety Officer 109th Tactical Airlift Group April 1981 – August 1986

US Air Force Reserves Schenectady, NY

EDUCATION / TRAINING / CERTIFICATIONS

Bachelor of Science Degree - Industrial Safety Management

LaSalle University Mandeville, LA 1995

Associate of Science Degree – Fire Science Technology

Berkshire Community College Pittsfield, MA 1980

Certifications

• Level 2 HAZMAT Instructor – State of North Carolina Department of Insurance

• HAZMAT / Fire Train-the-Trainer Certification – International Society of Fire Service Instructors

• Certified Environmental Trainer – National Environmental Trainers Association

• OSHA 10hr. and 30hr. Trainer Certification (OSHA 500 and 501)

Specialized training from many technical schools and colleges including:

• Confined Space Entry and Rescue, Electrical Safety, HAZWOPER 40hr., OSHA 10 and 30hr. courses, RCRA Hazardous Waste Mgt, HAZWOPER 300hr. Emergency Response from NC State, Fall Protection, Lockout/Tag-out, ICS FEMA Course, FEMA Train-the-Trainer for IC, DOT HM 181/126/215, CPR/First Aid, Crane Safety, Rigging and Hoisting, Mobile Equipment Safety, and more.

TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

• Expert in MS Word, Powerpoint, Excel, linear and non-linear video editing/production.

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