Karen Marin
P.O. Box *** • Spaniard’s Bay, NL • A0A 3X0
Home: 709-***-**** • Cell: 709-***-**** • Email: *******@*******.***
EDUCATION Occupational Health and Safety – Graduate April 2010
Keyin College, Carbonear, NL Anticipated
Certified Nursing Assistant – Graduate June 1990 I.W. Akerley College, Dartmouth, NS
CERTIFICATION
Traffic Control Person Training July 2009
Transportation of Dangerous Goods April 2009
Power Line Hazards March 2009
WHMIS March 2009
First Aid & CPR Feb 2009
Occupational Health & Safety Committee Sept 2008
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Jan 1995
SKILLS
Health and Safety
Developed and implemented health and safety procedures and policies
Conducted workplace inspections and investigations
Carrying out examinations of machinery, working environments, and processes to ensure worker safety
Ensuring workers are e provided with suitable personal protective equipment
Served on several health and safety committees and responsible for training team members
Provide training and educational support to employers and new trainees
Deliver Training Programs to employers and employees in WHMIS
Inspect workplaces to ensure equipment, materials and production processes do not present a safety or health hazard to employees
Keeping up to date with new legislation and health and safety standards
Management
Ensured high level of customer satisfaction and quality customer service
Manage staff and assign duties
Determine staffing requirements and hire or oversee hiring of staff
Recruit personnel and oversee training
Assist staff with administrative or technical problems
Develop action plans, respond to clients needs, and support and advise project team
Responsible for bank deposits, sales, scheduling and supervising staff
Oversaw ordering, shipping, and receiving of store inventory
Facilitated both operations and production activities to enhance profit margins and store sales
Responded to corporate concerns and request
Communication
Fostered an atmosphere of professionalism and teamwork
Ensured staff was up to date with product knowledge and information
Training, education and development of all team members resulting in a collaborative work environment
Communicates clearly and uses active listening to avoid common misunderstandings
Initiates and responds to various forms of communication
Recognizes the benefits of effective listening and the use of both verbal and non- verbal communication
Delivered Valedictorian Speech for fall graduation
Nursing
• Administration and recording of medications and treatments (taking of vital signs, blood pressure, etc.)
• Ability to maintain, operate and or use standard/ non-standard medical equipment (colostomy’s, catheters, lifts, wheel chairs, etc.)
• Knowledge of surgical and medical terminology
• Various Laboratory functions including specimen collection
• Promotes a healthy/safe practice environment
• Recognizes patient safety issues and reports appropriately
• Follow rules for infectious diseases
• Collaborating on the delivery of care to meet the daily needs of patients/clients (bathing, feeding, emotional support, etc.)
EMPLOYMENT
Occupational Health and Safety Student, March 2010- April 2010
Heli - One Composites, Work Term Host, Gander, NL
Occupational Health and Safety Student, April 2009- June 2009
Heli- One Composites, Work Term Host, Gander, NL
Store Manager
Motherhood Maternity, Halifax, NS & St. John’s Jan 2007- Feb 2008
Store Manager
Please Mum, St. John’s, NL and Halifax, NS Nov 2005 – Nov 2006
Store Manager
Value Village, Halifax, & Dartmouth, NS Aug 2000 – Nov 2005
Store Manager
Nova Scotia Crystal, Halifax, NS April 1998 – May 2000
REFERENCES
David Candow
OHS Instructor, Keyin College
81 LeMarchant St, Carbonear, NL
A1Y-1A9
(709) 596- 0217 Fax
Margaret Drover
Owner/ Operator, Keyin College
81 LeMarchant St, Carbonear, NL
A1Y-1A9
709-***-**** Fax
Leah Dorbyk
District Manager
Motherhood Maternity
Toronto, Ontario
Dean Parsons
Heli-One Composites
1 C.L. Dobbin Drive
P.O. Box 480
Gander, NL
709-***-**** Ext: 703
709-***-**** Fax
Albert Mac Mullen
Heli- One Composites
1 C.L. Dobbin Drive
P.O. Box 480
Gander, NL
(709) 256 –6111 Ext: 714
709-***-**** Fax