Safetyman.com - Mike Anderson Resume

MICHAEL L. ANDERSON

25 Cremin Drive
Lake Villa, IL 60046

Phone: 1-847-265-7030
Cell: 1-847-370-0941

EXPERIENCE:

1997 – 2006 (Retired)

Occupational Safety and Health Training Institute
Arlington Heights, IL

Senior Instructor and highly qualified Construction Safety Specialist responsible for teaching occupational safety related subjects to Federal and State Compliance Specialists, Federal agency safety and health officers, and private industry safety managers. Provides high-level technical expertise on occupational safety matters to OSHA National and field offices, other federal agencies and private industry.

Oversees and monitors assigned curriculum in a functional sense under the direction of the Construction Safety and Health Branch Chief. Conducts classroom training at advanced levels in a wide range of highly technical and complex subjects related to construction safety, the laws and regulations pertaining thereto and other aspects such as safety concepts, hazard analysis, compliance procedures and standards. Effectively communicates expertise and ideas to participants in the classroom and laboratory. Comprehensive, individually tailored course has been constantly developed. Designed and initiated Web Base training. Examples of courses that have been developed include:

Steel Erection
Fall Protection
General Construction Standards
Scaffolding Demolition
Cranes and Material Handling
Construction Instructor Course
General Industry Instructor Course

Served as a member and a leader of Project Task Forces established by the Assistant Secretary of Labor. Written guidelines to include the Federal Safety and Health Legislative Acts, Federal Standards and criteria documents, Agency field operations manuals, safety and health codes, rules, regulations, established industry practices, reports and a variety of technical literature, including professional journals, textbooks, and guides on industries and industrial processes.

As a senior instructor, assist junior staff members in research, development, formulation and production of training courses and materials.

Served as an expert witness to give testimony in courts and before administrative boards as requested.

1994 – 1997

Occupational Safety and Health Manager
U.S. Naval Station, Ingleside, TX

Serves as Special Assistant/ Department Head to the Commanding Officer, Naval Station Ingleside, Texas, with responsibility for developing and administering a total safety and health program to include elements unique to station work processes as well as those appropriate elements which are consistent with the Naval Occupational Safety and Health Program. Occupational Safety and Health Oversight for Base Operations Support Services (BOSS) Contractor and Sub Contractors operation. Supervised six personnel, to include military and civilian personnel.

As the Safety and Health Manager, I am directly responsible and accountable for planning, organizing, coordinating, budgeting, directing and evaluating the overall safety and occupational health program for U.S. Naval Station Ingleside. This included obtaining funding, staffing, performing workload analyses, acquiring office spaces, equipment and materials in implementing a viable and efficiently functioning entity. Fully responsible for all civilian personnel actions and processes relating to direct charge personnel in support of the Naval Station Ingleside Safety and Health Program. Scope of Safety Program includes full execution of approximately 37 separate and distinct programs and processes encompassing all phases of high risk and high hazard industrial operations and evolutions. Serve as chief consultant for all safety and occupational health matters. Ensure NAVSTA Safety and Occupational Health Program and related processes are administered in a manner consistent with the activity's mission and vision statements and long-range plans. Proactively support activity business plan by ensuring safety and health processes are fully identified and implemented as required.
Develop and direct the establishment of safety and occupational health requirements applicable to construction, maintenance, transportation, utilities, environmental and industrial operations. Provide professional advice and guidance to design, maintenance and operating personnel on safety matters which include review and approval of plans and specifications for construction and renovation of facilities, alteration of equipment, work processes and procedures for engineering adequacy and compliance with safety features and codes. Make recommendations for any needed changes in design not included in original plans. Provide safety and health assistance to planners, estimators and engineers regarding protective equipment design and safety devices for protection of personnel and government facilities and property. Develop and implement improved operating procedures and processes in production and maintenance areas to reduce and eliminate hazards.

Conduct and coordinate scheduled and non-scheduled safety and health inspections of NAVSTA facilities placing emphasis on areas of critical high risk operations involving maintenance, utility, transportation, maintenance and environmental related functions and evolutions. Ensure appropriate and applicable operations and processes are thoroughly implemented in a safe, reliable and economical means to include construction, maintenance, asbestos, hazardous material, metal trades, woodworking, electrical generation, telephone, water treatment, landfill, weight handling, material handling, transportation and various other industrial applications respective to public works activities. Ensure deficiency abatement issues are satisfactorily addressed and provisions made for preventing recurrence of hazards. Maintain appropriate logs, records and documents as required and necessary.

Ensure all mishaps are investigated regarding government personnel, motor vehicles and property with regard to NAVSTA operations. Direct the systematic compilation, analysis and reporting of mishap data as needed to prevent recurrence. Interpret and evaluate data and apply methods of controlling hazard exposures. Ensure all injury and illness claims are submitted correctly, completely and in a timely manner as required by appropriate directives.

Develop, conduct and implement safety and health training and education programs and processes to include all phases and operations of public works industrial and administrative operations and evolutions.

Coordinate and conduct appropriate surveys, reviews, audits and evaluations of environmental, industrial hygiene, asbestos, confined spaces, hazardous materials, protective equipment, noise, biological, radiological and physiological processes and operations to determine adequacy and completeness of compliance as necessary.

Responsible for providing professional advice and guidance relating to construction, renovation, alteration and demolition of Navy and government facilities, equipment and work processes for engineering adequacy and compliance with safety features and codes. Provide safety and health advice and recommend changes to civil, structural, electrical and construction engineers in the specification and design of protective features of facilities, plant, machinery, equipment and personal safety devices.

Responsible for reviewing safety and health provisions of contracts performed by contractors, military and federal entities to ensure contract specifications are followed. Ensure Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) clauses for safety and accident prevention are included as appropriate. Ensure that work is performed in accordance with US Army Corps of Engineer manual, Department of Labor codes of federal regulations, and all applicable federal, DoD, Navy and local regulations and laws. Attend preconstruction conference meetings, review and make recommendations to Safety and Health Plans, Activity Hazard Analyses, Preliminary Hazard Lists, blueprints and plan designs. Evaluate contractor programs and processes through extensive reviews of safety and health records, mishap logs and investigative reports of deficiencies and hazards. Perform quantitative and dimensional analyses of programs and processes to determine mishap frequency and severity rates, frequency/severity index, experience modification rates and other methods of evaluation to determine status and effectiveness of specific and general safety programs.

Directly responsible for formulating and implementing command self-evaluations/assessments. Responsible for ensuring programs and processes are properly and completely identified, addressed, and actions implemented where required. Specific programs include:

Construction Safety - Confined Space Safety - Facility Inspection - Radiation Protection - Hazardous Material/Waste Control - Scaffolding Erection - Energy Control - Fall Protection - Deficiency Abatement - Asbestos Awareness - Mishap Investigation and Reporting - Respiratory Protection - Hearing/Sight Conservation - System Safety Engineering - Trenching/Excavation - Unsafe/Unhealthful Working Conditions - Weight Handling Equipment - Industrial Hygiene - Medical Surveillance - Engineering Design Review - Workplace Monitoring - Back Injury Prevention - Traffic Safety - Safety Training Program - Lead Prevention - Personal Protective Program - Reproductive Workplace Hazards - Bloodborne Pathogen Control - Indoor Air Quality - Man-made Vitreous Fiber - Ergonomics including ADA provisions - Recreation, Athletic and Home Safety - Process Safety Management - Safety Incentive Awards - Worker Compensation/FECA - Driver Improvement Program - Laboratory Safety - Motorcycle Safety - Fire Protection - Contractor Oversight and several smaller, peripheral programs.

1989–1994

Occupational Safety and Health Specialist/Manager
U.S. Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

As Safety Director, I was directly responsible for formulating, planning, developing, implementing and evaluating the comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health Program at Naval Base and Naval Air Station Guantanamo Bay Cuba. This included all phases of occupational and non-occupational safety and health programs, processes and disciplines.

Formulated command policies and provided for the establishment and continued implementation of programs as specified by higher authority involving a diverse and full range of operations. I was responsible for ensuring that all elements of all programs were implemented and that compliance was maintained at all levels of the organization.

Directly responsible for conducting research, analyzing and prioritizing deficiencies and hazards, preparing reports with recommended solutions and corrective actions for the 39 separate and distinct safety and health programs and processes.

Ensured inspections were conducted of base-wide facilities, ocean going vessels, operations and processes including evaluation of industrial and non-industrial shops, environmental hazards, firefighting and rescue operations, aviation maintenance and testing facilities, fuel storage, port control operations, contractor operations, and morale, welfare and recreation activities. Responsible for ensuring documentation of inspections was maintained to include inspection summary, violations and deficiencies noted, recommended interim and permanent abatement and corrective actions. Ensured follow up was conducted of all facilities, processes and inspections. Ensured hazard abatement projects were initiated and completed where local funding was not available or adequate.

Directly responsible for organizing and conducting Safety and Health related councils and committees to include OSH Policy Council, Traffic Safety Council, Hazardous Material Control and Management Committee, Recreation, Athletic and Home Safety Committee, Enlisted Safety Council, and the Command Representative Safety Committee.

Responsible for reviewing contract proposals to ensure AHA and JSA elements were properly addressed and submitted. Responsible for ensuring contractor performance was in compliance with recognized and applicable safety and laws, directives and mandates. Ensured site inspections were conducted of contractor work sites in preventing mishaps. Conducted and ensured mishap investigations of contractor mishaps were performed as appropriate to prevent recurrence.

Responsible for ensuring aircraft maintenance and mishap prevention measures complied with standards and that flight equipment met DoD, Navy, FAA and local requirements and directives. Responsible for monitoring, reviewing, and performing aircraft maintenance and testing work and procedures. This included aviation gas free engineering responsibilities, supervising preparation and painting operations, corrosion control operations and tasks, monitoring testing of aircraft engines and mechanical, structural, hydraulic and fuel system components to ensure safety of government personnel, facilities and equipment.

Reviewed and approved plans and specifications for new construction and alterations to facilities, making changes as necessary for applicability and appropriateness.

Directly responsible for ensuring initiation, implementation and submission of all correspondence relating to the NAVOSH Program including inspections by upper echelon activities, OSHPIP and Self-Evaluation execution, SECNAV Safety Award submissions, comprehensive safety manuals, standard operating procedures, plans of actions and milestones, NAVOSH projects, EPA and OSHA inspection reports, etc.

Directly responsible for technical and administrative supervision, direction, education and development of the NAVOSH staff to include formal education, on-the-job training, and training by correspondence.

Responsible for monitoring and evaluating US Naval Hospital operations and processes relating to safety and health operations and processes to include medical surveillance, industrial hygiene and workplace monitoring evolutions and operations.

Provided technical advice, assistance and expertise to 23 separate tenant and subordinate commands to ensure they administered a viable and comprehensive NAVOSH program in compliance with appropriate directives.

Responsible for ensuring safety and health of all base residents (7,000) during quarterly contingency Defense Exercises (DEFEX). DEFEX safety included oversight and direction of residents in mock evacuations of the Naval Base and Naval Air Station. Coordinated land and waterway transportation evolutions of military and civilian personnel, family members, contractor personnel, visitors and animals as necessary. Provided assistance and support for military infantry defense forces when conducting DEFEX and similar exercises
Conduct safety inspections of base facilities, operations and industrial, maritime, ground aviation, and construction work processes. Prepare comprehensive reports outlining hazard control procedures and abatement criteria. Perform maritime, aviation and shore Gas-Free Engineering for confined space entry.

1986–1989

Occupational Safety and Health Specialist
Naval Station, Lakehurst, NJ

Conducted safety and health inspections of base facilities, operations, and industrial, maritime and construction work processes and practices. Prepared comprehensive reports outlining hazard control procedures and abatement criteria. Evaluated and monitored department OSH programs, providing recommendations and solutions for abatement.

Supervised military and civil service employees in performing hazard abatement work and general maintenance and repair evolutions involving high-risk jobs and tasks. Supervised naval construction battalion personnel, federal employees, contractors and visitors to ensure jobs and operations were completed in a safe and healthful manner. Responsible for ensuring safety across myriad construction and general industry disciplines to include electrical, utility, transportation, maintenance, environmental, aircraft, radiological, biological and water borne operations.

Investigated mishaps and incidents, researched, compiled, reviewed and analyzed data in preventing mishap recurrence. Conducted mishap investigations involving military and federal civilian employees, contractors and visitors. Also, responsible for conducting mishap investigations and reports for tenant activities. Prepared mishap reports identifying root and contributory causes, and provided solutions and recommendations for prevention.

Conducted safety and health training and education for supervisors, managers, employees and visitors of Naval Station, Lakehurst to assist in their responsibilities in providing a safe and healthful working environment for their respective areas.

Reviewed plans for construction and contractor operations and evolutions including attending pre-construction conference meetings. Reviewed plan designs and blueprints in meeting basic safety and health requirements for facility construction, alteration, renovation and demolition. Reviewed contractor processes to ensure compliance with accepted safety and health practices, procedures, laws and directives as appropriate.

Performed aviation and shore gas free engineering for confined space operations. Conducted atmospheric testing of aircraft components, tanks, vats, sewage treatment facilities, lift stations and various other types of confined spaces. Ensured protective equipment was available and used, issued certificates, calibrated instruments, trained personnel and maintained respective logs

1982–1986

Firefighter/Acting Captain
Naval Station, Lakehurst, NJ

Firefighting/Acting Captain responded to structural and airfield crash alarms conduct size-up to prevent extension of fire and minimize damage. Upon arrival at a crash scene, direct initial attack on fire and rescue operations. Organized daily work assignments, preventive maintenance of vehicles and equipment

1973 – 1981

U. S. NAVY
ACTIVE DUTY (HONORABLE DISCHARGE)

EDUCATION:

College

BS (SAFETY & HEALTH) (NAVY INTERN PROGRAM)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY, 1986-1989

AAS (FIRE SCIENCE)
OCEAN COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE, 1984-1986

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