Health & Safety/Ground Disturbance Specialist with in depth knowledge of regulatory requirements in Western Canada.
Investigated workplace accidents and injuries to determine root causes. Implemented procedures and practices for site employees to protect workers. Established best practices in workplace safety and environmental quality programs with corrective action plans. Conducted safety meetings to improve internal safety processes. Determined root causes of accidents via in-depth investigations and identified potential prevention strategies to mitigate future risk. Analyzed incident data to identify trends in injuries, illnesses and accidents. Wrote technical reports, data entry and queries into various safety and health databases. Maintained and updated emergency response plans or procedures. Developed and created materials for new employee health and safety orientations. Various types of spreadsheets to track incidents, corrective actions, ets.
Be part of the Heath and Safety program as a Damage Prevention Inspector on Spread 1 & 4B for Trans Mountain. Oversee contractors to ensure compliance to Canadian Energy Regulations and Trans Mountain policies and procedures. Conduct inspection such as Horizontal Directional Drilling, open cut crossings on hot lines, and various other ground disturbance activities. Respond to B.C. One Calls. Issue 30m Ground disturbance permits. Create and maintain various spreadsheets for the project. Generate crossing reports.
Oversee Enbridge owned assets through the Alberta One Call system. Schedule locators as required. Mentor and evaluate locators as required. Ground Disturbance Coordinator for major projects for third party contractor such as TC Energy. Ensure proper inspection requirements are met. Conduct audits on field crews to ensure proper Damage Prevention Standards are met. Lead kick-off meetings with contractors performing Ground Disturbance and track progress of project, line up third party inspection, ensure proper Crossing Agreements are in place.
Maintain integrity of various clients pipelines with a safe approach. Witness third part crossings. Locate clients pipelines as part of the Alberta One Call system. Maintain safe work practices as part of the Alberta Pipeline Act and clients Safe Work Procedures. Assist on Welding Integrity Projects. Lead Damage Prevention Inspector on various major projects such as Atco Electric Transmission Powerline Upgrade. Be part of the Health & Safety program.
Assist lead locator is 4 ways sweeps, mark any under ground utility detected, complete sketches to provide customers of underground utilities. Located in various types of plants and leases. Right Of Way sweeps, locate clients pipelines as part of the Alberta One Call system.
Started out in wash-bay, flushing tank trucks and washing exterior of trucks. Moved to small flat deck truck hauling chemicals to various lease sites in Alberta. Also operated small pressure truck batching wells, doing various types of pressure tests on new pipelines and existing underground pipelines. Obtained my class 3 (Q) license and operated various Vac trucks, Water trucks, and Hydrovac's. Worked on new construction pipelines as bore support and pipe pulls as well. Be part of Heath & Safety program.
Hold a valid Class 3 licence with Air Brakes.
Ground Disturbance Level 2, CSTS, PCST