Now placing the safety profession on hold while I develop ethanol fuel stock on my 22 acres of well drained sandy loam soil. Also developing a secondary use of baggess pellets for sweet feed supplement and handcrafting that sweet cane rum.Life can be good when working within mother natures maxims.I am willing to go, do, and see. Tis much better to be within than to be with out! and so it is....... Any one know of a reliable source of HOcp 04-838 please drop me an email or note, thanks !

Coordinate safety for up to 140 skilled craft working on projects in ship repair yard with 2 365 x 220’ floating dry docks and 3 piers for refitting ships for equipment and packaging. A 250’x200’ plate shop, tool room, electrical shop, production facility, storage yard, paint yard, blast yard,1 90 ton lattice boom crane, 2- 50 ton lattice boom cranes-w-leflers 2 hydraulic stick cranes 5 man lifts and 3 rough terrain fork lifts Manage shipboard competent people. Manage first aid clinic using… Show more Coordinate safety for up to 140 skilled craft working on projects in ship repair yard with 2 365 x 220’ floating dry docks and 3 piers for refitting ships for equipment and packaging. A 250’x200’ plate shop, tool room, electrical shop, production facility, storage yard, paint yard, blast yard,1 90 ton lattice boom crane, 2- 50 ton lattice boom cranes-w-leflers 2 hydraulic stick cranes 5 man lifts and 3 rough terrain fork lifts Manage shipboard competent people. Manage first aid clinic using EMT skills for injury’s clinic visits, lost time, and light duty incidents.Manage DESA style drug testing of workers for cause and random testing..Accomplish safety walk through with supervisors. Review recommend audit edit and sign hot work, JSA&JRA ,confined space entry& ventilation forms.Sign waste manifests and delivery manifests.Discover opportunities for improvement, document through pictures and writing, communicate and publish to safety principals. Attend and speak at safety meetings dockside and on jobsite. Interface with craft lead men foremen and superintendents to push the critical safety topics. Attend production meeting to discover what types of work will be accomplished on the shift and communicate that to the safety team members. Investigate accidents and make initial corrections and recommendations to safety principals for further corrections or action. Initiate Safety Sleuth Find It & Fix It program. Fire extinguisher auditing and life ring auditing of facility assets displayed on Google Earth. Post numerous safety signs about conditions in both English and Spanish- ex silicosis informational sign with graphics.Site and construction project safety over the barges Iguana 1, Zee barge 1,and Pacific,the floating drilling rig Ocean Saratoga, Jack Up rig Pride of Wisconsin and floating production rig Viking Producer, Rolls Royce positioning thrusters, Kværner/FMC deep sea drilling equipment, as well as United States Materials Management Service prepositioned TBM's Show less

Safety technician over 23 people 5 industrial vehicles a fleet of 16 pickup trucks.Facility and corporate Fire Marshall. B.P. Texas City hazardous waste facility safety technician. Gaia Environmental representative to B.P.Contractors Safety Council as well as Member At Large to B.P.Contractors Safety Council. Gaia Environmental representative to the B.P. environmental group safety meetings. Prior manger for Geo-technical drilling.Utilized YSI 600 multiparameter sondes with flow cell and YSI… Show more Safety technician over 23 people 5 industrial vehicles a fleet of 16 pickup trucks.Facility and corporate Fire Marshall. B.P. Texas City hazardous waste facility safety technician. Gaia Environmental representative to B.P.Contractors Safety Council as well as Member At Large to B.P.Contractors Safety Council. Gaia Environmental representative to the B.P. environmental group safety meetings. Prior manger for Geo-technical drilling.Utilized YSI 600 multiparameter sondes with flow cell and YSI 650 mds hand held data logger water sampling computer, for DO, ORP, COND, TEM,collected samples with Geotech Geopump 2 peristaltic groundwater pump. Labeled samples and created chain of custody documents for lab analysis. Maintained on a daily basis B.P. Texas City Refinery’s 32 hydrocarbon recovery wells, used to recover lost refined hydrocarbon liquids floating on top of the water table under the refinery. crew during well over drill replacement including sand bedding, bentonite clay sealing, Portland cement cap, cement well pad, well protector, and bollard work.. Operated Photo ionizing device, tested air for verification of below action levels of benzene and other V.O.C.’s. over soil plots. Advised drill crew when to doff and don half maskrespirators and organic vapor cartridges. Evaluated soil at drill site for peak V.O.C.’s and advised drill crew of truck orientation to reduce exposure. Interfaced with engineers operators and job reps on locations for geotechnical drilling of soil cores, including consulting old 5010 drafting drawings for possible underground obstructions ,using divining rods for obstruction identification, line of sight alignment of footings, slabs and below ground penetrations, and directing probing of ground down to 6’. 100% safety record as manager. Directed maintenance of Foremost Mobil drill truck mod. B-61 during off season, including specifications for replacement truck chassis, Show less

refused to approve the purchase a undersized g.v.w. chassis for replacement, insisting on a like and kind replacement for safety’s sake. Used welding automotive technology, and metal working skills and my own personal tools, cut and directed hydraulic crane removal of the 17,300 lb. drilling bed and mast from the original truck frame. Rigged and directed the heavy crane lifting of the drill bed off and onto the new chassis. Designed, specified and directed the installation of the drilling… Show more refused to approve the purchase a undersized g.v.w. chassis for replacement, insisting on a like and kind replacement for safety’s sake. Used welding automotive technology, and metal working skills and my own personal tools, cut and directed hydraulic crane removal of the 17,300 lb. drilling bed and mast from the original truck frame. Rigged and directed the heavy crane lifting of the drill bed off and onto the new chassis. Designed, specified and directed the installation of the drilling bed extension, Including placement of water tote, stabilizing hydraulic cylinder frame mount, headache rack etc. Directed installation of a self compensating auto hammer for spl blow count during slit spoon retrieval of samples.Soft soldered 7” crack in radiator top cap. I was approached by Company owner and director of operations to become The company’s first safety technician, in its newly created safety division. Trained in N.C.C.E.R’s Construction Site.Safety.Technician (100 hrs). safety class in a brutal accelerated learning schedule. Complimented several times by course instructor for insight and past personal experiences that were shared with the group. Time shifted work hours to minimize impact on company operating capital, then responded to company’s need to represent them at contractor safety meetings and contractor audit team events during scheduled off time, all while attending 6 hour training sessions in the afternoons and evenings. After graduation , I managed field safety over BP Texas City refinery In Plant Services , Hazardous and Non Hazardous waste streams, Universal waste stream, SDU Environmental Facility team, Geotechnical drilling crew, Hydrocarbon Recovery Well Service, Texas City LTF land treatment facility, and the Corporate office. Appointed Fire Marshall, over the Corporate Office by Director of Operations. Show less

Provided my own personal transportation to locations where employees were stationed due to no vehicles available for the safety departments use. Provided my own personal laptop to conduct company business with. Had a zero dollar safety budget. Provided my own frc’s, steel toed boots and other personal protection equipment. Achieved above and beyond for company success.Resigned form a job that I loved after the company decided to allow untrained employees on industrial equipment to do work… Show more Provided my own personal transportation to locations where employees were stationed due to no vehicles available for the safety departments use. Provided my own personal laptop to conduct company business with. Had a zero dollar safety budget. Provided my own frc’s, steel toed boots and other personal protection equipment. Achieved above and beyond for company success.Resigned form a job that I loved after the company decided to allow untrained employees on industrial equipment to do work 8 months after my friend in this company was killed for the very same thing!...... I can fix stupid through education but can not do a thing for greed. Show less

Working with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health Toxicological Emergency Response company headquartered in North Little Rock Arkansas, my work as a Industrial Hygienist Technician and Toxicology Emergency Response Support occurred in the Texas City Refinery of British Petroleum. I collected data for a monumental project, involving sampling welders in the various conditions they work in, for Heavy Metals and Hexavalient Chromium 6 welding fume emissions. Document through… Show more Working with the Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health Toxicological Emergency Response company headquartered in North Little Rock Arkansas, my work as a Industrial Hygienist Technician and Toxicology Emergency Response Support occurred in the Texas City Refinery of British Petroleum. I collected data for a monumental project, involving sampling welders in the various conditions they work in, for Heavy Metals and Hexavalient Chromium 6 welding fume emissions. Document through observation and description the conditions welders work in, types of metals welded, the welding process types, ventilation types, environmental parameters and surroundings and that are determined to affect the sample media. Enter findings into MI/FORMS 6 Field entry program on a Windows XP notebook computer. QA/QC documents and transmit observations and documentation through MS ACCESS into B.P. HSSE database. Accurately calibrate and troubleshoot SKC sampling equipment for use. Enter time and billing codes for sampling done. Field calibrate and maintenance Rae Systems Area RAE Wireless Remote Gas Monitoring systems real time monitors. Monitor results of same in computer laptop and dispatch Toxicology Emergency Response Personnel team to area for further investigation and quantification by calorimetric tubes. As an ambassador and representative for the company, I discovered through observation and interfacing with welders, Foremen, and Supervisors, the locations where work for future monitoring periods would be found. Attended safety meetings where safety issues were discussed with turnaround workers. Advised both B.P. and contractor safety leads on language and positive presentation to better present safety concepts and information to the workforce. Show less

Accomplishments, above and beyond, I have monitored 6 people at one time, and also monitored 3 different types of metal in one monitoring period I have reviewed ventilation plans and made recommendations to the company doing the work in the ventilated area and to the creators of the ventilation plan to better achieve the stated goals of their plan. I intervened in and stopped an unsafe plan to dry out a vertical Packinox heat exchanger with an oxy-acetylene "rosebud torch. The exchanger still… Show more Accomplishments, above and beyond, I have monitored 6 people at one time, and also monitored 3 different types of metal in one monitoring period I have reviewed ventilation plans and made recommendations to the company doing the work in the ventilated area and to the creators of the ventilation plan to better achieve the stated goals of their plan. I intervened in and stopped an unsafe plan to dry out a vertical Packinox heat exchanger with an oxy-acetylene "rosebud torch. The exchanger still contained flammable product on the bottom, walls, and personnel working inside. Imagine the results if that had happened.Rif at the end of the project. Show less

DAILY MONITORING CUSTOMERS VALVES FLANGES AND CONNECTORS FOR FUTURATIVE EMISSIONS. As a qualified sampler, utilize the COSMOS xp316 analog catalytic combustion monitor , or the Thermo Electron Corporation (Foxboro) T.V.A. 1000 b fid/pid toxic vapor analyzer, monitor components with 40 CFR 60 appendix a method 21. Continually document discovered readings with a DAP 9800 hand held data logger. Upload these findings to the company's on site computer system and run maintenance action reports… Show more DAILY MONITORING CUSTOMERS VALVES FLANGES AND CONNECTORS FOR FUTURATIVE EMISSIONS. As a qualified sampler, utilize the COSMOS xp316 analog catalytic combustion monitor , or the Thermo Electron Corporation (Foxboro) T.V.A. 1000 b fid/pid toxic vapor analyzer, monitor components with 40 CFR 60 appendix a method 21. Continually document discovered readings with a DAP 9800 hand held data logger. Upload these findings to the company's on site computer system and run maintenance action reports, technician quality audits, monitor balance sheets, and other data manipulation in the company's proprietary leaders and leers figurative emissions data base programs. Interface with customer representatives on a daily basis as liaison and answer general and technical questions along with discussing general maintenance needs discovered while monitoring and observing conditions inside operating process units. Maintaining and documenting calibration of all assigned monitoring equipment including zero initial, mid day drift, and end of day drift assessments. Maintaining equipment hoses, filters and batteries adjusting span of control and calibration span of calibration gasses. Transportation of off-site calibration gasses, calibration bags and laptop computer to my home and the home office. I was responsible for travel crew adopting several ergonomic changes to basic equipment to encourage more efficient monitoring productivity with less fatigue. Employed immediately as a member of the elite travel crew with monthly rotating location assignments in the Houston area and southern U.S. locations.Made initial attempts to eliminate leaking components, and Participated in directed maintenance with plant maintenance personnel to ensure cessation of discovered leaks in a timely manner. Able to free climb with safety harness and lanyards inside process units to access dtm (Difficult To Monitor) components. Also utilized extension ladders and 45ft. JLG man lift to access components. Show less

Worked in the Houston/Galveston metro area on dispatch from Austin, Texas. Accomplished bunker surveys of #2 heavy fuel for shipping Draft surveyed inspected gauged and calculated volume of fuel offloaded Using API tables and container dimension fact sheet. Certified barrels of fuel delivered to receiver. Collected, labeled, boxed and shipped samples to lab for testing/ grading. Work locations Galveston wharves, Pelican Island terminal, Kinder Morgan, Galena Park, Stolthaven, Channel View,… Show more Worked in the Houston/Galveston metro area on dispatch from Austin, Texas. Accomplished bunker surveys of #2 heavy fuel for shipping Draft surveyed inspected gauged and calculated volume of fuel offloaded Using API tables and container dimension fact sheet. Certified barrels of fuel delivered to receiver. Collected, labeled, boxed and shipped samples to lab for testing/ grading. Work locations Galveston wharves, Pelican Island terminal, Kinder Morgan, Galena Park, Stolthaven, Channel View, Barbours Cut- La Porte Texas. Was not paid for the 20 days I worked. Show less

Monthly and yearly industrial gauging and sampling of storage tanks primarily in BP Texas City O.M.C.C. tank farm. I was the First Agricultural Bulk Commodity Shipping Inspector for the company. Work scope of Gulf coast ports in Texas and Louisiana. I Achieved Primary and Secondary survey of one of the first ships to load in Donaldsonville La. 12 (twelve) days after Hurricane Katrina. I had to secure fuel allotted from military installation in Iowa La. to make it in to New Orleans area… Show more Monthly and yearly industrial gauging and sampling of storage tanks primarily in BP Texas City O.M.C.C. tank farm. I was the First Agricultural Bulk Commodity Shipping Inspector for the company. Work scope of Gulf coast ports in Texas and Louisiana. I Achieved Primary and Secondary survey of one of the first ships to load in Donaldsonville La. 12 (twelve) days after Hurricane Katrina. I had to secure fuel allotted from military installation in Iowa La. to make it in to New Orleans area, Louisiana. There was no electrical power to pump any fuel. I slept in a tent in Donaldsonville La. Wal-Mart parking lot due to FEMA blanket leasing all available rooms in the state and region. Show less

RESPONSIBLE For the Fire Truck, Aerial ,or Transport capable Heavy Rescue /Ambulance through daily inspection and verifying equipment readiness. Included are radios, hand tools, hazardous materials monitoring equipment, reference material, thermal imaging camera, weather sampling equipment, Survive-Air 4500 S.C.B.A. equipment, Personnel Protective equipment. Responsible for operational checks for all fire department vehicle subsystems. .Responsible for daily log of all activities accomplished… Show more RESPONSIBLE For the Fire Truck, Aerial ,or Transport capable Heavy Rescue /Ambulance through daily inspection and verifying equipment readiness. Included are radios, hand tools, hazardous materials monitoring equipment, reference material, thermal imaging camera, weather sampling equipment, Survive-Air 4500 S.C.B.A. equipment, Personnel Protective equipment. Responsible for operational checks for all fire department vehicle subsystems. .Responsible for daily log of all activities accomplished. Responsible for minor maintenance of all fire department vehicle subsystems. Responsible of intimate knowledge of city streets and their conditions. Responsible for ensuring the fire truck and crew arrive at response destination by cautiously driving safely in emergency traffic. Responsible for establishment of water supply and maintaining the supply quality during fire spill or release evolutions. Accomplishments include: City of Texas City's Representative (as a set up captain) at emergencies in municipal and industrial complexes and settings. Responsible for determining by using decision matrix if fire spill leak or disaster incident needs upgrading to higher response levels by the Texas City Industrial Mutual Aid Society as to protect the city, surrounding communities , and the environment. One of the liaisons to the Texas City Emergency Operations Center when activated due to emergency. Operated the A.L.O.H.A. chemical properties database and Chemical Release plume plotter and provided up to date information for E.O.C. principals during their decision making processes. Step Up Captain numerous times, control of span of 12 people 5 pieces of equipment and outside responses from municipal and industrial sources on major incidents.. Project leader for fire boat product recommendation to the Fire Chief at an estimated cost of 2.3 million us dollars. The cost was reduced to 1.8 million dollars without loss of the ships performance or viability... Show less

Responsible for on scene fire evolutions for hose man classification. Step up to engineer position as needed to man equipment for 24 hours Assigned to fire suppression division with basic station cleanliness, inventory control, station maintenance, training in basic firefighting vehicle maintenance air pac maintenance first aid skills, area survey, building construction, fire anatomy and special conditions. Accomplishments: Step Up Engineer, manned apparatus for 24 hours completed duties of… Show more Responsible for on scene fire evolutions for hose man classification. Step up to engineer position as needed to man equipment for 24 hours Assigned to fire suppression division with basic station cleanliness, inventory control, station maintenance, training in basic firefighting vehicle maintenance air pac maintenance first aid skills, area survey, building construction, fire anatomy and special conditions. Accomplishments: Step Up Engineer, manned apparatus for 24 hours completed duties of fire engineer. Assisted Fire Marshall's office in fire investigations discovered the cause of the St Paul's Union Church fire. Past member of Lone Star STATE hose CO # 1 antique enactors primarily at Dickens on the Strand, Galveston TX. Show less

Responsible for driving fire truck safely in emergency traffic.