Manager Safety

Samuel Bennikutty

**** ****** ***** *****, ****, TX 77494

***********@***.***, Tel: 501-***-****)

SUMMARY:

An accomplished Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), Certified Safety Professional (CSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM), Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and US Department of Labor certified OSHA-501 Trainer with 19 years of professional experience in Heavy Chemical Manufacturing, US Federal Agency, US Army and heavy construction/demolition projects at US Department of Energy environmental remediation sites.

SKILLS: Safety Management, EHS, Occupational Health, Industrial Hygiene, Construction Safety, Asbestos, Manufacturing, Six Sigma, Environmental Compliance, Environmental Management, Hazardous Material s Management, Hazardous Waste Management, Emergency Management, Energy, Manufacturing, Union.

EXPERTISE:

a. Standards and Regulations Expertise:

OSHA Standards for General Industry (29 CFR 1910), OSHA Standards for Construction Industry (29 CFR 1926), DOE Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program (10 CFR 850), DOE Worker Safety and Health Program (10 CFR 851), US Army Safety Program (AR 385–10), and US Army Corps of Engineers Safety and Health Requirements Manual (EM 385-1-1). DOE approved Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Industrial Hygiene (IH) and Industrial Safety (IS).

b. Program Development Expertise:

Chemical Hygiene Program (CHP), Standing Operating Procedures (SOP), Safety, Health and Emergency Response Plan (SHERP), Site specific Health and Safety Plan (HASP), Chronic Beryllium Disease Prevention Program (CBDPP), Industrial Hygiene (IH) Hazard Assessment, Site specific Industrial Hygiene Sampling and Analysis Plan.

EXPERIENCE:

(1)SENIOR EHS PROFESSIONAL / IH Manager, WCH, Dept of Energy Contractor, Hanford (Aug 2010- Jan 2012)

Industrial Hygiene Program Owner for WCH, responsible for:

• Providing technical leadership

• Representing WCH to oversight agencies/external reviewers

• Establishing WCH standards and expectations

• Ensuring appropriate flow down of requirements into internal implementing procedures and into subcontracts

• Ensuring appropriate definition of training (for affected personnel, STRs)

• Defining and implementing appropriate levels of oversight and assessment

• Resolving issues pertaining to practices, priorities, and resources (and ensuring the resolution does not adversely affect WCH schedules, costs, or commitments)

• Ensuring open actions are captured and tracked to completion

• Providing and maintaining procedures or implementing instructions that identify roles, responsibilities relative to their program

• Implementing the program for the projects

(2) Senior EHS Professional, CH2MHILL- Dept. of Energy Contractor, Hanford, Aug 2009 – Aug 2010

Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) Lockout/ Tag out, Confined Space Entry and Rescue, General Electrical Safety, Asbestos Abatement, Sampling and Analysis of Occupational Exposures to Industrial Chemicals, Physical and Biological Agents, Hazard Communication, Personal Protective Equipment, Hearing Conservation and Noise Exposure, Chemical Awareness and Exposure, Occupational Exposure Sampling, Heat Stress, Chemical Hygiene, Fall Protection, Ladder safety, emergency evacuation, Crane/ Rigging safety, Powered Industrial Truck, Blood Borne Pathogen, Contractor Safety And Hot Work, Accident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis.

(3) Project Safety Officer, Tennessee Valley Authority, Mar. 2005 – Aug. 2009

Responsible for supporting major projects with US Army in decontaminating chemical warfare agents at (1) Newport Chemical Depot, Newport, IN, (2) Deseret Chemical Depot, Stockton, UT, and (3) Pine Bluff Arsenal, Pine Bluff, AR

Defined the scope and nature of the industrial hygiene and safety portion of the projects, estimation, budget requirements, and developed and certified appropriate industrial hygiene/safety work plans, and schedules.

Served as the onsite Project Safety Officer / Chemical Hygiene Manager for large, complex projects such as hazardous waste cleanups, chemical weapons demilitarization, and process plant demolition.

Provided industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety consultation to project management. This included developing project safety and health plans, conducting workers’ health and safety training, monitoring worker exposure to hazardous agents (Chemical Warfare Agents, Lead, Arsenic, Mercury etc.), and investigated worker injuries and occupational illnesses.

Prepared project completion reports and/or technical industrial hygiene and safety reports by analyzing data, developing findings and conclusions, and provided recommendations. These included project completion documents, industrial hygiene survey reports, injury/illness investigation reports, and various safety-related trainings.

Conducted non-routine industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety studies. These studies covered emerging technologies, newly identified health hazards, and exposure profiles for epidemiology investigations.

Periodically evaluated, certified, and audited the status of industrial hygiene safety practices, procedures, and controls, utilized by operating organizations at the sites.

Conducted comprehensive industrial hygiene, occupational health and safety services as conditions and situations required.

(4) EHS Manager, Enersys/Invensys/Hawker PowerSource, Jul. 93 to Mar. 2005

Developed and installed a $ 1.0 million dollar Elementary Neutralization Unit (ENU) and used the recycled water for in-plant use resulted in declassifying the facility as a “Zero Discharge Facility”. Saved $ 110,000.00 annually in disposal costs and State Waste Generator Fee. This is in addition to saving 8 million gallons of water usage. This helped the company to change the Hazardous Waste Generator Status from Large Quantity Generator (LQG) to Small Quantity Generator (SQG).

Developed and implemented a safety system that brought down the Lost Time Injury Rate from 7.5 to zero (Jan. 2004). Liberty Mutual Group presented an award recognizing this achievement as the first in the history of Battery Manufacturing Industry (This resulted in a $140,000.00 premium pay back for that calendar year).

Able to bring down Workers Compensation Dollars ( $91,000 in 2002 to $10,000.00 in 2003)

Trained, educated and monitored all supervisors and managers in safety philosophy and regulatory compliance. Established responsibility and accountability for their safety functions. Changed the “Safety Culture” of the company by delegating responsibility of certain safety functions to supervisors, while monitoring and control done by Safety Department. Worked with plant supervisors and department managers for implementation (e.g. Confined Space, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, Lockout Tag out, Forklift Training and certification of employees, Accident Investigation and Root Cause Analysis, Recordkeeping, etc.)

Developed sampling programs and conducted IH sampling for Lead, Arsenic, and Sulfuric Acid.

Managed biological monitoring program for Lead and arsenic and developed controls to bring down blood-lead levels effectively. Reduced the maximum Blood-Lead-Levels of plant employees below 30 micro gram /dl.

On hand experience in various Industrial Hygiene Samplings, Monitoring and Controls like: Respirator Program, Heat Stress Program, Hearing Conservation Program etc.

Engineered ventilation designs and controls for lead-in-air and arsenic exposure.

Developed various Regulatory Compliance Programs for the facility.

CERTIFICATIONS:

(1) Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH # 9817)

(2) Certified Safety Professional (CSP # 17973)

(3) Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM # 6313)

(4) Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (SSBB)

WORK HISTORY:

(1) Technical Officer at Abu Dhabi Airport Services (ADAS) 1990 -1992 (2 years) (Transportation)

(2) EHS Manager at Hawker PowerSource, 1993 -2005 (12 years) (Manufacturing, Chemicals)

(3) Project Safety Officer at TVA, 2005 – 2009 (4 years) (Chemicals – Chemical Warfare Agents)

(4) Senior EHS Professional at Hanford, CH2MHILL-Department of Energy Prime Contractors, 2009 -2010 (1 year) ( De-contamination & Demolition of Nuclear Reactors and associated Labs and buildings at Hanford Nuclear Energy site)

(5) Industrial Hygiene Manager, WCH-Department of Energy Prime Contractors, 2009 -2010 (2 years) ( De-contamination & Demolition of Nuclear Reactors and associated Labs and buildings at Hanford Nuclear Energy site)

EDUCATION:

(1) AAS: Chattanooga State Tech Community College, Industrial Hygiene & Health Physics,

(2) SSBB: Invensys Inc., Certified Six Sigma Black Belt

(3) B.Sc : University of Kerala, B.Sc. (SPECIAL) , Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics

(4) M.Sc : Vikram University, PHYSICS

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