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Jeffery K. Dennis, CET, CIT
Safety Consultant

2633Foothills Drive
Birmingham, AL 35226
(205) 960-9679 cell
jeffdennis@charter.net

An environmental, health, and safety professional with over twenty-three – (23) years experience. Developed and implemented numerous successful environmental management, safety, industrial hygiene, and regulatory programs. Through cost effective training, observation, and management, has assisted in greatly reducing the number of OSHA recordable injuries and incidents over the past eighteen – (18) years.

QUALIFICATIONS

Safety

  • Safety Program development, implementation, evaluation, and management
  • Loss (Risk) Management Specialist
  • Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) 29 CFR Parts 1910 and 1926 – General Industry and Construction expertise
  • OSHA 1903 Inspections, Citations, and Proposed Penalties expertise
  • OSHA 1904 Recording and Reporting Occupational Injuries and Illnesses expertise
  • Zero Energy State (ZES), Machine Guarding, Hazard Communication, Blood-borne Pathogens, Fall Protection Systems, Scaffolding Systems, Permitted Confined Space Entry, Hot Work, Hand Tool Inspection, Crane Safety, Rigging, Blocking, Shoring Safety, Hazard Assessment, Incident Evaluation and Investigation, Documentation and Reporting, Personal Protective Equipment, Safety Auditing, and Safety Inspection Program Development, Implementation, and Training
  • Excellent working relationships with insurance company and worker’s compensation insurance personnel, as well as extensive worker’s compensation claims management experience
  • Experience in Ergonomics including Proper Lifting Technique training, Lower Back Pain Prevention, Ergonomic Observation and Coaching, and Work Station and Work Practice Design/Improvement
  • Extensive Ergonomic Training (Columbia Southern University/Georgia Tech)
  • Excellent regulatory liaison with regulatory and government agencies including OSHA (Federal and State Levels), and MSHA
  • Development, implementation and control of successful safety, training, documentation, and industrial hygiene sampling/monitoring plans
  • Investigation, OSHA/MSHA reporting, root cause analytical and preventative training experience
  • MSHA Part 46 and Part 48 Training and Program Management
  • Managed Safety in multiple industrial/construction settings including power plant, paper mill, steel mill, cement plant, chemical plant, refinery, mine (above ground areas), fabrication, and machine shop facilities
  • Extensive Industrial Hygiene monitoring experience
  • Development and implementation of overall company safety program including industrial employees, contractors, technical, industrial, trucking, and construction employees
  • Manage Corporate Safety Meetings for multiple shop locations, Contractor Safety Meetings, as well as per-shift “Toolbox Safety Meetings” for construction projects taking place at industrial facilities
  • Management of Corporate Substance Abuse Program including Drug Screening, Laboratory Confirmation Testing, and Employee Counseling Assistance Program

Training

  • Dynamic, effective, and experienced trainer
  • Certified Environmental Safety and Health Trainer (CET)
  • Certified Industrial Technologist (CIT)
  • MSHA Approved Safety Trainer – Surface Unlimited
  • Authorized OSHA Construction Industry Outreach Trainer – 10-Hour and 30-Hour Construction Safety (OSHA 500)
  • Authorized OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer – 10-Hour and 30-Hour General Industry Safety (OSHA 501)
  • Certified First Aid, CPR, and AED Trainer – National Safety Council
  • Certified Powered Industrial Truck Trainer – National Safety Council

DOT/Transportation

  • Development, implementation, training, evaluation, and management of a Corporate Fleet Management Safety Program (DOT)
  • Excellent regulatory liaison with regulatory and government agencies including DOT (Federal and State Levels)

Environmental

  • Development, implementation and evaluation of successful environmental management programs
  • ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems expertise
  • Excellent regulatory liaison with regulatory and government agencies including EPA (Federal and State Levels), and ADEM
  • Extensive experience with NPDES, SID, RCRA, Air Permits
  • Risk Management Program (RMP) experience
  • Waste characterization and minimization program management experience
  • Development, implementation and control of environmental health and safety best management practices plans

Quality

  • Audit experience including corporate, state, federal, and local government environmental and safety audits
  • Internal and Third Party Registrar Audit Experience
  • Lead Auditor Experience
  • Quality Assurance Manual (QAM) development, implementation, training, evaluation, and management experience
  • A2LA, AIHA, ACIL, ISO/IEC 17025, ISO 14000 Audit Experience

Management

  • Extremely effective leadership, motivation, and management experience including management of over 500 employees as Corporate Safety Manager
  • Business Owner and President
  • Highly effective Management of Change style, concentrating on training, documentation, follow-up, and corrective action
  • Upper management responsibility for all environmental, health, and safety issues, human resources management, personnel, policies, training, procedures, systems, corrective actions, and measurements
  • Excellent regulatory liaison with regulatory and government agencies including DOT, EPA, ADEM, OSHA (Federal and State Levels), and MSHA
  • Excellent working relationships with insurance company and worker’s compensation insurance personnel, as well as extensive worker’s compensation claims management experience
  • Development, implementation, training, and control of new standard operating procedures to comply with new regulatory environmental and safety requirements
  • Management of Corporate Substance Abuse Program including Drug Screening, Laboratory Confirmation Testing, and Employee Counseling Assistance Program
  • Management of Corporate Sexual Harassment Program
  • Extensive Human Resource Management experience
  • Very effective leadership and management skills
  • Very adaptable and flexible to situations
  • Extremely organized

EXPERIENCE

Current Projects Include:

National Safety Council – Alabama Chapter
Trainer – Instructor (Provide Instructor Training to Potential Trainers)
Instructor (Contract Position)

Materials Technology, Inc.
Quality Assurance Manager (Contract Position)

Vital Inspection Professionals, Inc.
Corporate Safety Manager
Corporate Safety Trainer (Contract Position)

BRAWCO, Inc.
Safety Trainer (Contract Position)

Power Plant Maintenance Service Company (PMSI)
Occupational Safety and Health Consultant (Contract Position)
Staffing On-Site Safety Supervisors (Contract Positions)

Entec Services, Inc.
Corporate Safety Manager (Contract Position)

BAE Systems
Occupational Safety and Health Consultant (Contract Position)

Particulate Control Technologies, Inc.
Safety Manager (Contract Position)

EDUCATION

Bachelors of Science Degree
Productions Operations Management
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB)
1991

Premiere Occupational Safety and Health Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2008

Advanced Industrial Safety and Health Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2008

Advanced Construction Safety and Health Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2008

Industrial Safety and Health Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2007

Construction Safety and Health Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2007

Safety and Health Program Management Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2008

Hazardous Materials Management Certificate
OSHA Training Institute Education Center
Health and Environmental Systems Laboratory
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Georgia Institute of Technology
2008

Currently enrolled as a graduate student at Columbia Southern University. Graduating in March 2009 with a Masters of Science Degree in Occupational Safety and Health.

CERTIFICATIONS

  • Certified Environmental Safety and Health Trainer (CET) - #28-382
  • Certified Instructional Technologist (CIT) - #28-382
  • MSHA Part 48-B Approved Surface Trainer – IS-Unlimited
  • MSHA Part 46 Approved Surface Trainer – IS-Unlimited
  • OSHA OTI 500 Authorized Trainer
  • Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the Construction Industry
    # C-0017530
  • OSHA OTI 501 Authorized Trainer
  • Occupational Safety and Health Standards for the General Industry
    # G-0013022
  • OTI 521 – OSHA Guide to Industrial Hygiene (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • OTI 2045 – Machinery & Machine Guarding Standards (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • EST 7000 – Scaffolding Safety (OSHA 1926)
  • OTI 3110 – Fall Arrest Systems (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • OTI 7505 – Introduction to Accident Investigation (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • OTI 7845 – OSHA Recordkeeping Rule Course (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • OTI 7500 – Introduction to Safety and Health Program Management (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • EST 7001 – Advanced Safety Management Principles and Programs (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • OTI 2250 – Advanced Ergonomics (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • EST-6000 – Managing Environmental Compliance (EPA, DOT)
  • OSHA 40-Hour HAZWOPER Certification 29 CFR 1910.120 - # EEC3390 – Updated Annually through 8-Hour Updates - 1991 to Present
  • HAZ 1002 Eight Hour Annual HAZWOPER Update Refresher – March 2008
  • EST-7005 – NFPA 70 E Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace (OSHA 1910/1926)
  • EST 7002 – Instructional Technologies for Environmental Health and Safety Trainers
  • HAZ 2015 – Hazardous Materials
  • DOT Hazardous Materials (HazMat) Training – March 2008
  • Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Training – March 2008
  • Introduction to the R.E.A.L Safety Process Seminar – April 2008
  • ADEM EPA Method 9 Visible Emissions Evaluator- #3518
  • OSHA 10-Hour Construction Safety & Health #000479925
  • OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety & Health #600159375
  • National Safety Council – Alabama Chapter – Certified Trainer - Coaching the Lift Truck Operator
  • National Safety Council – Alabama Chapter - Certified Lift Truck Operator
  • National Safety Council – Alabama Chapter – Certified Trainer – CPR, First Aid, AED #322151, #293550
  • National Safety Council – Alabama Chapter - Certified CPR, First Aid, AED #322151, #293550
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Safety Management
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Confined Space Entry
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Fall Protection Systems
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Accident Investigation & Reporting
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Hazard Assessment
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Respirator Safety
  • OSHA Class Certificate – Electrical Safety

Working towards sitting for both the Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and Certified Hazardous Materials Manager (CHMM) Certifications.

MEMBERSHIPS

  • American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) – Alabama Chapter
  • American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) – Alabama Chapter
  • National Safety Council (NSC)
  • National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
  • Joseph A. Holmes Safety Association – Communications Committee Member
  • National Environmental, Safety, and Health Training Association (NESHTA)
  • Houston Area Safety Council (HASC)
  • Wilmington Area Safety Council (WASC)
  • Safety Council of the Louisiana Capital Area
  • Source Evaluation Society (SES) – Safety Committee Member
  • Associated Builders and Contractors (ABC) Alabama Chapter – Safety Committee Member

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