Manager Safety

QUALIFICATIONS

Years of Experience:

Over ** of Environmental Remediation and Construction Safety

Employment History:

**** – Present

Texas Sterling Construction Company

**** -****

CET Environmental

Professional Affiliations:

American Society of Safety Engineers

Houston Contractors Association

Associated General Contractors

Education and Training:

• Associate of Arts, Certificate in Business

• OSHA 500 and 510

• Trench and Shoring

• First Aid/CPR

• Fall Protection

• Confined Space

• Certified Safety & Health Official (CSHO)

Areas of Expertise:

• Proficient in Spanish

• 1910 and 1926 OSHA Regulations

• OSHA Negotiations

• Bilingual Safety Training

• Workers’ Compensation Regulations

• Construction Safety Regulations

• Accident and Injury Investigations

• Hazardous Waste Profiling and Disposal

• Emergency Response

• Environmental Remediation

• Workers’ Comp Claims Handling

Awards:

• The Hartford Pewter Stag Award, January 26, 2005, In recognition of distinguished achievement in accident control.

• US Army Corp of Engineers, 2009 Annual Safety Award - Medium Contracts

As Safety Manager for Texas Sterling, Mr. Flores is responsible for OSHA Regulatory Compliance, Company Safety Policy development, implementation, and compliance. He conducts accident and injury investigations as well as job safety audits. He is also responsible for budgeting, scheduling and supervising and coordinating the safety staff.

Mr. Flores has managed Emergency Response Departments, supervised environmental cleanup of land and marine chemical and oil spills. He has also been responsible for waste disposal profiling.

He has over 20 years of broad experience in all aspects of construction and environmental safety and fully realizes that all safety components are of utmost concern to the client.

Mr. Flores takes pride in being part of the one of the first construction companies to provide bilingual safety training to its employees. He conducts bilingual safety training, which is essential to educate the workforce in hazard recognition and avoidance.

Mr. Flores believes all injuries and occupational illnesses are preventable. He provides service and support to the field in order to assure safety compliance and accident prevention. Mr. Flores believes high safety, production and quality expectations are all equally essential to build a world class safety culture.

Mr. Flores manages a safety staff which takes pride in providing every employee a safe work environment. Mr. Flores believes in order to achieve excellence in safety; management must demonstrate leadership and set an example in its commitment to safety.

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE

TxDOT, Loop 610 at Ella, Houston TX; Safety Manager

A $28M interstate highway project that includes the repair of five (5) bridges, concrete repaving of five miles of 10 main lanes, two (2) miles of three (3) lane frontage roads, and 10 entrance and exit ramps. Special challenges include heavy traffic congestion, high crime area and subcontractor safety.

U S Army Corps of Engineers, W. W. White Road Bridge Design Build; Fort Sam Houston, TX; Safety Manager

This $6.5M Design Build was the complete construction of a new bridge including concrete and asphalt paving. The project included a 760 foot 10 span box beam bridge with a six (6) foot pedestrian walkway and a suspended communication conduit. The bridge crossed over Salado Creek which posed a variety of environmental and weather challenges.

Metropolitan Transit Authority, Downtown Light Rail,

Houston, TX; Field Safety Officer

In this 130M project Texas Sterling installed 3 of the 5 Line Sections for the initial Light Rail System in Houston. The three (3) projects were bid based on 30-percent design plans and Texas Sterling built and coordinated the projects through plan completion. Texas Sterling constructed Line Section 5 through downtown Houston, Line Section 3 through the Texas Medical Center and Line Section 2 adjacent to Reliant Arena. Texas Sterling received early completion bonuses and delivered the rail system in time for Super Bowl XXXVIII at Reliant Stadium. Special safety concerns were post 911 security concerns, high pedestrian and vehicular traffic, and unknown intersecting underground utilities.

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