Luis Lemus Email & Phone Number

United States

Houston, Texas, Us

Christ Church, West Indies, Bb

Started working for American Apparel as Corporate Safety and Health Director on June 2016, with the objective to reduce the number of injuries by implementing policies and procedures in conjunction of all regulatory program, within these months we have reduced 85% our TIR, completed a Machine Guarding KAIZEN event. Develop and increased the culture and knowledge of all my direct report, three administrators and one supervisors.

Us

Providing service to Aseptic Solution USA part of the GLANBIA Corporation. We the objective to implement a robust EH&S management system to sustain a culture change within all different positions of the organization. This process will be by performing different evaluations to define a unique strategy that will provide a solid foundation through strategic elements such as; compliance calendar, SOP’s, Training matrix, Internal audits and inspections, management and supervisors EH&S development & management responsibilities and accountability.Aggressively reduced the TIR and RIR, accomplished more than 300 days with zero incidents and reduced 95% the average cost by clam. Closed 90% of the open claims, some of the significant highlights that change the overall position of this site within the organization.

San Diego, California, Us

Leader and coordinator of the 6’s implementation program, establishing influence of a culture change based on this new concept.•Demonstrated fast implementation of a Zero accidents culture, based on a day-by-day employee involvement and participation. .67 TIR vs the national average of 7.8 TIR•Coordinator of the improvement and developing training program by developing internal instructors and the implementation of the Alchemy System •WC reduction establishing specific plan and guidelines to review and close cases working closely with insurance adjuster. 20K Out paid reduction•Instructors/ Trainers development of a new Safety Employees Committee driven by a behavioral Base Safety Concept and Self audits and inspections, fundamental element of a Zero injuries concept.•All EH&S responsibilities.

Brea, Ca, Us

Provided specific and unique EH&S assistance in the implementation of an ISO model, legal and compliance response plans to government agencies. Hand on employee involvement through Behavioral base safety concept.•Structure EH&S in a calendar compliance system to ensure complete obligations with different agencies.•Develop and implement motivation campaigns to promote a change of culture oriented for hourly employees’ base on teamwork.•Teamwork and commissioning all new / modified equipment and new process through risk assessment.•Active participant in product and process evaluation base on lean philosophy. •Design and implemented a shear point use for supervisors and managers as communication tool folder for SOP’s documents a line with ISO model.•Define and implemented a root cause analysis system for incident investigation.•Reduced effectively 25% of WC cost by a consistent follow up process with insurance adjuster.•Maintain a TIR below the national average.•Completed effectively and improve internal and external compliance audits from NI to obtain a satisfactory score from COSTCO & Mc Donald’s.•Coordinate and supervise the wastewater treatment system optimizing and improving the hour’s usage. Savings around 100k.•Full involvement in setting control of the PSM/ RMP/ CAL-ARPP system. By a zero tolerance release. Reduction from 27 cases to zero reportable cases.•Created a “on the spot” reporting and control of safety observation (STOP) through safety tags forms. Average of 120 employees’ safety suggestions per month.

Full hands on manager supporting two sites with an over all of 2000 employees, developing and implementation specific safety Management System and preventive plan to control, administrate and reduce all incidents and corrective actions.•Design, develop and implement safety management system software to support a robust system that provides full support to all EH&S responsibilities•Define and implement a specific plan to evaluate and complete Job Safety Analysis. A total of 525 JSA were successfully performed. •Perform full evaluation to develop action plan to prevent and reduce incident. Initial daily visual safety checks were implemented. •Successfully provided hands on support to both sites with investigations, audits, evaluations, inspections and plan implementation.•Responsible in defining strategic plan to respond to CAL-OSHA inspection and citations, closing and implementing all corrective actions to end and close all pending issues.•Directly supervise a full time maintenance technician and fabricator completing pending safety observations, improving equipment and safety devises on processes and machine guarding resulting in a significant incident reduction•Implement root cause analysis / CAPA software for both sites•Demonstrated results reducing lost time cases and severity by performing risk analysis on equipment and process utilizing some of the lean tools.•Worked hand on hand with safety coordinator in the implementation of specific safety annual training plan and train to trainers for both sites.

Providing different EH&S support to companies across the border under USA, Mexico & South America standards & regulations•Provide customize Safety Training session and programs such as Haz-Com, LOTO, Machine Guarding & Hearing Conservation.•Represent GENERMASA and provided assistance to implement and achieve Industria Limpia Environmental certification. •Introduce the direct representation of Micro-Analisis from Mexico City for all IH and environmental lab samples•Incident Root Cause Analysis support and training•Develop auditing system according to Empresa Segura parameters as an internal tool to achieved compliance.•Develop customize Management System implementation to administrate corrective actions and regulations.•Providing unique consulting service in implementing corporate guidelines in Mexico base on US standards on maquiladoras.•IH assessment to comply with Mexican regulations such as noise, illumination, dust, & vapor samples. •Some of the Maquiladoras parts of above-mentioned achievements are Vito-Embases, Valut Tech, Chromalloy, CareFusion, Kemworth, Timsa, Cemex Ensenanda & Accurride.

Hands on style management. Directed the following division functions for a large manufacturing division. •Demonstrated success in communicating Safety goals and methodologies to all levels of employees•Member of the corporate auditing system team in the USA and Mexico •Implemented the Emergency Planning, Response System & Pandemic Flue Plan•Active supervision on Risk Management efforts related to Worker’s Compensation•Responsible for driving division incident rate results to meet corporate standards• Development and Implementation of programs based on Behavior Based Safety & Lean Manufacturing.• Spend significant time on the shop floor engaging line management and department personnel.•Active Kaizen member in several events as safety representative.•Direct responsible of all EH&S training and Supervisors leader development.•Coach Manager & active member of the Ergonomic team.•Setup all preparation planning and training to for the VPP process

Direct the following functions for the western region of an international cold storage/logistics corporation – 10 facilities; 1500 employees•Environment, Health, Safety & Security – Loss Prevention•Assisted with the corporate effort in the management of workers ‘compensation claims for a corporation that has a $500,000 deductible•Conducted all security reviews and investigations within the region•Assisted with the negotiation efforts in the areas of EPA and OSHA •Directed all incident reviews/investigations of serious incidents of both a non-injury and injury nature within my region•Directed the major compliance efforts in the areas of Environment and Safety•Developed and conducted the major topic EHS&S presentations, compliance and instructional trainings within my region•Directed the regional facility compliance of all EPA annual chemical reports•Assisted with the development and implementation of the corporate safety manual•Directed the safety committee activities at facilities within the region

Active EH&S manager, responsible to improve in several level positions within the company. Direct the following functions for an international manufacturing corporation – 18 facilities; 5400 employees•Environment, Health, Safety, Sustainability & Loss Prevention program coordinator.•Established and implemented a complete machine-guarding program for all facilities and all types of manufacturing equipment base on six sigma principals.•Pro-active participation on Kaizen events as team leader and safety representative.•Drove the incident rates of all facilities to a minimum of 20% - 58% improvement•Established the first auditory system based on Clean Industry/ISO standards in South America•Implemented the primary incident reporting system for the corporation•Responsible for reduction in Latin America insurance premiums by implementing proactive security and auditory measures•Established and directed the Corporate Community Education Programs. “Global Compact” as part of corporate sustainability.• Coach leader of Safety Improvement Green belt project.Implemented EHS&S programs within my region to improve our overall KPI’s

Bachelor Of Education (B.Ed.)

Bs On Education, Education