Chris Thistle Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Inuvik, Northwest Territories, Canada

▣ Enhanced operational efficiency, reduced timeline and optimized productivity—engineered health and safety programs, forecasted supplies and equipment and worked with frontline leaders to ensure personnel compliance with legislation, codes and regulations.▣ Established KPIs, assessed inefficiencies and led internal quality audits to optimize efficiency and eliminate downtime. ▣ Monitored construction activities, overhead crane operations and heavy lifts to ensure the highest standards of safety and effectiveness. ▣ Orchestrated emergency response plans and supported efficient allocation and distribution of safety equipment across daily operations.▣ Drove productivity and eliminated downtime—forecasted safety equipment and supplies in accordance to project timeline and site requirements.▣ Engaged with site superintendent and frontline leadership—planned safety equipment allocation and the development of site-specific safety programs.▣ Aligned personnel with a mutual achievable to exceed safety and efficiency targets—engineered behaviour-based safety programs that enforced positivity and promoted a safety-first work culture.

British Columbia, Canada

• Coach and support safety activities undertaken by owner operator, contractors, subcontractors, and third-party personnel.• Monitor and verify, company, contractor activities to ensure adherence to organizational, project specific safety management plan and legislative OH&S requirements.• Oversee safety inspection staff, where required to ensure compliance (e.g., drawings, specifications, codes standards, regulations, owner operator and contractors’ site-specific quality plan/contract).• Ensure that all incidents are investigated, documented, and reported in a timely manner and forwarded to the construction management team.• Create and foster a positive work environment and a proactive/mature safety culture with workers, construction management teams.• Worker with owner operators, contractors, and workers that safety-related commitments are implemented.• Verify that safety programs are being followed through, audits of field level risk assessments, construction work permits, ground disturbance permits, formal safety inspections and daily field safety reports.• Use stop-work authority, to immediately stop work activity, and notify supervision of unsafe conditions and/or acts and ensure all site personnel are aware of their obligation to do so as well. • Administrate/facilitate Occupational health and safety management programs as well as record management associated with construction safety documentation.• Compile, analyze and review monthly project safety statistics with company management.• Participate and conduct pre job kick of meeting, ground disturbance meetings, high risk task meetings, high potential incident review meetings, lesson learned meetings and close out meetings.• Identify construction safety non-conformance issues such as training needs, site conditions, unsafe acts and industry and regulatory requirements.• Interface with field management team and field inspection team to identify areas of concern and develop mitigation strategies

Westren Canada

• Coach and support safety activities undertaken by owner operator, contractors, subcontractors, and third-party personnel.• Monitor and verify, company, contractor activities to ensure adherence to organizational, project specific safety management plan and legislative OH&S requirements.• Oversee safety inspection staff, where required to ensure compliance (e.g., drawings, specifications, codes standards, regulations, owner operator and contractors’ site-specific quality plan/contract).• Ensure that all incidents are investigated, documented, and reported in a timely manner and forwarded to the construction management team.• Create and foster a positive work environment and a proactive/mature safety culture with workers, construction management teams.• Worker with owner operators, contractors, and workers that safety-related commitments are implemented.• Verify that safety programs are being followed through, audits of field level risk assessments, construction work permits, ground disturbance permits, formal safety inspections and daily field safety reports.• Use stop-work authority, to immediately stop work activity, and notify supervision of unsafe conditions and/or acts and ensure all site personnel are aware of their obligation to do so as well. • Administrate/facilitate Occupational health and safety management programs as well as record management associated with construction safety documentation.• Compile, analyze and review monthly project safety statistics with company management.• Participate and conduct pre job kick of meeting, ground disturbance meetings, high risk task meetings, high potential incident review meetings, lesson learned meetings and close out meetings.• Identify construction safety non-conformance issues such as training needs, site conditions, unsafe acts and industry and regulatory requirements.• Interface with field management team and field inspection team to identify areas of concern and develop mitigation strategies

Western Canada

▣ Assisted with ongoing multi-million-dollar large-scale pipeline construction and expansion projects in the industrial sector. ▣ Enhanced operational efficiency, reduced timeline and optimized productivity—engineered health and safety programs, forecasted supplies and equipment and worked with frontline leaders to ensure personnel compliance with legislation, codes and regulations.▣ Established KPIs, assessed inefficiencies and led internal quality audits to optimize efficiency and eliminate downtime. ▣ Monitored construction activities, overhead crane operations and heavy lifts to ensure the highest standards of safety and effectiveness. ▣ Orchestrated emergency response plans and supported efficient allocation and distribution of safety equipment across daily operations.▣ Drove productivity and eliminated downtime—forecasted safety equipment and supplies in accordance to project timeline and site requirements.▣ Engaged with site superintendent and frontline leadership—planned safety equipment allocation and the development of site-specific safety programs.▣ Aligned personnel with a mutual achievable to exceed safety and efficiency targets—engineered behaviour-based safety programs that enforced positivity and promoted a safety-first work culture.▣ Achieved the highest safety scores—participated in external safety audits that included COR, NEB and client audits. Ensured compliance with provincial and federal OH&S codes and standards.

Edmonton, Canada Area

International Diploma For Occupational Health And Safety Managment Professionals, Occupational Safety And Health Technology/Technician

National Construction Safety Officer (Ncso)