Regional Safety Manager
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Jul 2020 - Present
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Humanist. Rationalist. Contrarian. Activist.
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Ponoka, Alberta, Canada
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Karoly Ban Matei is listed as Humanist. Rationalist. Contrarian. Activist. at Qualico Developments Canada Ltd., based in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Karoly Ban Matei.
Karoly Ban Matei previously worked as Regional Safety Manager at Qualico Developments Canada Ltd. and Safeopedia Contributor at Safeopedia. Karoly Ban Matei holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from Australian Institute Of Business.
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Long before I started a career in occupational health and safety I was already neck-deep into safety. I was practicing, and often introducing my friends to parachuting, climbing, spelunking, helping everybody have fun and stay safe. None of us ever got hurt, though we had some near misses! Climbing out of a cave shaft using my shoe strings as rope grabs was not an easy feat!When I formally started my first health and safety position, I was still a fresh immigrant to Canada with an economics degree, thinking this was supposed to be a short time gig, until a more suitable “safety guy” would be found. Eventually, it turned out, my analytical personality was a good match for safety and I was the right guy. For a while I suffered from the “impostor syndrome”, and training was my response to that. I started with generic safety courses, the NCSO, then CRSP and eventually completed my diploma in health and safety. School and practical experience led me to believe that safety does not live in isolation and that it is a symptom of the whole organization's performance. I learned that while there are the occasional personal errors, most often than not, the causes of unwanted events were systemic, outside of the employee control, and totally within the organization’s control. From here it was only a step to leading multidisciplinary groups (HSE, HR, Operations, QAQC, transportation, etc) that addressed inter-departmental issues, which, in turn, improved the organizational culture and the safety performance. My background in microeconomics and an MBA trained me to better understand and integrate these departments, while good communication and the ability to convey "what's in it for me" to all levels help me get the buy-in. Every single company that hired me wanted me to help them change their culture, which is the most radical form of organizational change. I believe that to be seldom necessary and, most often than not, the organization needs to become a learning organization – we need to unearth and accept our past, which we often have a deformed view of it, in order to be able to create a realistic vision of the future and put together a plan to bridge this gap. These learnings and experiences made me who I am – an analytical and relational multi-tool for fixing systemic organizational issues, which, non-incidentally, also improve organizational safety performance.More about me: https://banmatei.wixsite.com/kbm-profile
Listed skills include Construction Safety, Occupational Health, Construction, Industrial Safety, and 37 others.
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Safeopedia Contributor
CurrentAuthoring and ghostwriting occupational health and safety articles and Q&S on a variety of topics.
Feb 2018 - Present
Hse Manager
Oversee the HSEMS for all operations (AB, BC, SK, ON, NB, Colorado). Plan, execute and direct the HSEMS for the manufacturing, transportation and installation of helical pile foundations and help the organization gain expertise in driven piles. Working to transform Almita into a learning organization.Implemented eCompliance to collect, sort and make sense of HSE data and drive a culture of continuous improvement.
May 2019 - Apr 2020
Hse Manager
Managed the HSEMS for AB, BC, SK, ON, for major foundations and earthworks. Up to 6 direct reports.Developed and implemented a proprietary, cost-effective, mobile device deployable, HSE platform using SmartSheet.
May 2018 - May 2019
Hr And Safety Manager
Managing the health and safety and human resources programs for 4 production, maintenance and storage facilities to inculcate a unified corporate culture in a multicultural diverse workforce and improve the health and safety and performance indicators.
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Hse Leader
Self
I have executed contracts for companies with operations in AB, BC, as well as AZ and GA (US). (DIRTT Environmental Solutions, Goodmen Roofing LTD, Lafarge Canada)
Jan 2017 - Nov 2017
Hse Manager
Plan, execute and direct the health and safety activities for Copp’s manufacturing, transportation, install and surveying divisions, working with up to 10 reports and many concurrent projects (AB, BC, SK).
May 2011 - Dec 2016
Hse Coordinator
Reporting directly to the owners of the company managed safety programs, site inspections, ACSA audits and COR certification, hazard controls, incident investigations. During my tenure, I increased employee and management accountability, as well as employee commitment, in an industry notorious for its lax approach to health and safety.
Jan 2006 - Apr 2011
Innkeeper / Aubertgiste
Auberge La Paysanne
Jun 2005 - Sep 2005
Technicien En Amenagement Paysager
Apr 2005 - Jun 2005
Economist
Alba Aluminiu
Reporting to the CFO I oversaw a variety of financial and accounting aspects of the operations. In this respect, my major contributions were in the migrating of the accounting system from a paper-based system to a computer fully integrated accounting and stock management system, as well as assisting in the implementation of the ISO 9001 under TüV. As an economist, I managed to expand our clientele base from a small internal group of clients to the European market.
Oct 1997 - Mar 2005
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Karoly Ban Matei education
Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General
Australian Institute Of Business
Advanced Diploma In Health And Safety, Health And Safety
University Of New Brunswick
Associate'S Degree, Occupational Safety And Health Technology/Technician
University Of New Brunswick
Bachelor’S Degree, Economics
Universitatea Ecologică Din București (Ecological University Of Bucharest)
Military, Mathematics-Physics
Mihai Viteazul Military High School
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Karoly Ban Matei works for Qualico Developments Canada Ltd..
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Karoly Ban Matei is listed as Humanist. Rationalist. Contrarian. Activist. at Qualico Developments Canada Ltd..
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Karoly Ban Matei is based in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada while working with Qualico Developments Canada Ltd..
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Karoly Ban Matei has worked for Qualico Developments Canada Ltd., Safeopedia, Almita Piling, Northstar Sharp'S, and Kinnikinnick Foods Inc..
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Karoly Ban Matei holds Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Business Administration And Management, General from Australian Institute Of Business.
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Karoly Ban Matei is listed with skills including Construction Safety, Occupational Health, Construction, Industrial Safety, Project Planning, Accident Investigation, Inspection, and Safety Management Systems.
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