Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Influential and results driven leader with over 10 years of progressive health and safety management experience driving continuous improvement with exceptional team building and leadership skills. Proven success developing and executing effective injury prevention strategies in large, unionized, industrial and construction settings resulting in a significant decrease in safety events and injuries. Recognized for finding efficiencies and taking action to realize cost savings while maintaining and improving the health and safety program and performance. Combined skill set of effective communication skills, integrity, collaboration and proactive approach used to develop progressive indicators to effectively measure safety performance and safety culture.
• Build and lead a team of highly skilled health and safety managers and professionals supporting multiple sites including a 4-unit nuclear power plant and construction on the refurbishment mega-project. • Lead health and safety support for all projects across nuclear, hydro, and thermal operations. This includes a contractor pre-qualification process, contract safety planning and program initiation, execution oversight/audits/corrective actions and contract close out. • Executed an innovative organization change that found significant efficiencies and cost savings. This model was recognized and used across other support groups to ensure project completion on or below budget. • Lead a cross functional team that developed and implemented a proactive approach for injury/event prevention for high risk/consequence work that resulted in significant improvements in both safety performance as well as overall safety leadership and culture. • Lead a team of health and safety leaders from 6 different contractors in the development and implementation of critical risk management strategies and processes. • Company representative for external agencies and vendors including Edison Electrical Institute, North American Industrial Safety and Health Association, ISNetworld, etc.
• Lead a team of health and safety professionals supporting 66 hydroelectric stations and 241 dams on 24 river systems as well as a gas/oil generating station. • Implemented a corporate wide safety culture paradigm shift to move the organization from compliance-based to a value-based safety culture. The strategic change management plan resulted in significant improvement in measured safety performance and safety culture. • Reduced complexity and redundancy by moving the corporation to a single health and safety management system. Achievements such as significant governance reductions, aligned risk reviews and implementing a common injury management processes were realized.
• Lead a team of health and safety professionals supporting multiple sites including a 4-unit nuclear power plant and nuclear waste processing and storage facility. • Developed and implemented a strategic health and safety plan that contributed to successful large scale 4-unit maintenance outage that is required every 10 years. Key elements included previous outage event reviews and lessons learned, innovation opportunity and implementation, strategic field presence, real-time assessment/trending of safety observations and post-project self assessment. • Developed and implemented a corporate wide safety culture paradigm shift to move the organization from compliance-based to a value-based safety culture. The strategic change management plan resulted in significant improvement in safety performance and culture in general. • Company representative for external agencies and vendors including Institute of Nuclear Power Operators, World Association of Nuclear Operators, etc.