JONATHAN WOMACK
Wilmington,USA
Summary
I’m a versatile safety professional who is a results-driven, innovative leader with proven success in balancing behavior safety and training metrics, as well as customer service and operations. Equipped with over 29 years’ experience with the last 19 years in safety management operations. I have extensive experience in the management and mitigation of Workers Compensation claims thru occupational injury prevention, safety, security, and regulatory compliance programs; proven track record in managing multiple locations and projects all while maintaining a positive relationship with federal, state, and local agencies.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Dept. Safety Risk Coordinator
Washington Area Metropolitan Transportation Authority
, USA
02.2025 - Current
- Lead enterprise risk management activities supporting Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) and fleet operations across revenue and non-revenue vehicle environments.
- Evaluate existing EHS and operational safety programs for compliance with DOT, OSHA, and applicable federal, state, and local regulations, documenting gaps and recommending corrective actions.
- Support the development, implementation, and continuous improvement of EHS and fleet safety programs, including policies, procedures, and operational controls.
- Conduct hazard identification and risk assessments related to fleet operations, operator behavior, fatigue, distraction, emergency response, and environmental conditions.
- Coordinate and support fleet safety initiatives in partnership with operations, training, and maintenance teams to reduce incidents and regulatory exposure.
- Assist in the design and delivery of safety training and refresher programs focused on safe driving practices, regulatory compliance, and risk mitigation.
- Establish and track safety performance metrics and key risk indicators, analyze trends, and prepare reports for leadership review.
- Participate in incident investigations, root cause analyses, and corrective action planning, ensuring findings align with regulatory and organizational safety standards.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with leadership, labor partners, contractors, and external agencies to enhance safety practices and regulatory alignment.
- Support regulatory audits, inspections, and safety assessments, ensuring documentation accuracy and timely follow-up on corrective actions.
- Promote a continuous improvement of safety culture by translating risk data into actionable recommendations for leadership and frontline teams.
Director of Safety, Training, Security, Onboarding
Tom Hassel Transport Inc.
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ
07.2021 - 01.2024
- Operate with a 'Boots on the ground' approach.
- Advocate the culture of safety as a core value rather than a priority.
- Proven results to empower positive change in safety practices and protocols.
- Mentoring, guiding and investing in young safety professionals.
- Industry leader known for my expertise of Federal rules and regulations through DOT, FTA, OSHA, FMCSA.
- Operating budget of $1,250,000 dollars for safety; training and security to ensure needs are met.
- Perform facility audits, training reviews, staff evaluations.
- Created a formalized onboarding process.
- Improved late claims reporting from 33% to 98.4%.
- Improve the closing of claims from 27% to 91.8%.
- Created and implemented the HOS process to ensure PC and violations are addressed timely.
- Improved HOS violations by 92% to include (personal conveyance) which improved from 18% to 97% within 6 months.
- Engrained fortitude, tenacity, and stability within the field safety environment so that it becomes the source of truth for all reporting, monitoring, site inspections, accident and incident investigations.
- Review all drug, alcohol and clearinghouse information for current driver fleet and new candidates.
- Established the training program for loading and unloading of hazardous materials.
- Team building exercises to eliminate the disconnect between senior, mid-level and operational teams.
- Execute the investigation(s) of incidents, accidents and employee injuries for mitigation and root cause analysis reporting.
- Created and/or updated all safety and security plans including IIPP, SSPP.
- Review and update all driver safety and training material.
Sr. Manager of Safety & Training
Palm Beach County Transit Dba Palm Tran
Palm Beach, FL
06.2020 - 06.2021
- Operated a budget of 2 million dollars for safety, training, and security to ensure needs are met.
- Addressed all union concerns when it directly involves safety, security or a training issue and finalize with joint agreement.
- Divided the department into 2 entities, creating a more diversified, efficient and effective solution to safety and training.
- Created processes that decrease the number of accidents and incidents by 37%.
- Reviewed and updated the process of onboarding, hiring, and training of all new operators.
- The agency authorized contact for all emergencies including security threats at the federal and local government level.
- Organized collaborative team training with Florida Highway Patrol and Palm Beach Fire Department in accident and passenger injury assistance.
- Established the training process for other department staff who were deficient in understanding the aspect of 'How Transportation safety Works'.
- Created a process to lower safety complaints through organizational coaching and re-fresher training in the field of intersection awareness and customer service and all it encompasses which we had a 39% reduction.
- Spearheaded the LTYX project and training for all employees to effectively utilize this program which led to an 18% decrease in accidents and customer service concerns.
- Implemented a program to increase the public awareness of pedestrian incidents by performing safety blitz and community outreach promoting external awareness.
- Organized cross-divisional team building exercises to coach and train employees on customer service, dignity, and respect.
- Created an all-new accident re-training process with the focus of increased accountability, lowering the number of preventable collisions, significant decrease in passenger slips and falls by 17%, decrease wheelchair tips by 46%.
- Consistently focused on building others by educating them on the importance of leadership, situational de-escalation, teamwork, the importance of receiving and issuing constructive criticism and examining the data.
- Drive results by leading a team to embrace safety, training, security, and compliance as their own. This mindset change lowered equipment breakdowns by 10%, employee assaults down by 18% and security events down 15%.
- Created and implemented a facility auditing process to minimize maintenance employee injuries by mitigating repairs.
- Lead investigator of all incidents, accidents, W/C with RCA reporting.
Corporate Director of Safety, Security and Health
EPES Transport System Inc.
Greensboro, NC
05.2019 - 07.2020
- Establish and champion the safety vision for 1850 drivers, across 47 locations, to drive ownership of a renewed and holistic approach to safety engagement and positive empowerment in the reduction of accidents, incidents and injuries lowering the AFR from 1.28 to 0.63 in 180 days, IFR from 5.98 to 2.77.
- Department with 6 direct reports directly managed security, permitting, HOS, accidents/incidents, and w/c claims.
- Created and implemented a field safety and support team of (4) management level staff, to assist with the task of bringing safety management, accident prevention, injury prevention, monthly safety meetings and facility audits to the outlying locations.
- Created and implemented safety plans such as IIPP, SSPP, SSEPP, COOP.
- Analyzed the current safety culture, increase the potential for success by implementing a 'boots on the ground' approach to W/C, accident, incident investigations and training opportunities.
- Gifted ability to influence and empower corporate leadership to shape and implement robust plans that drive safety performance improvements where required.
- Establish and direct a team of regional safety managers, to support and conduct facility audits, field observations, employee file reviews, drug/alcohol compliance, employee engagement and safety analytics.
- Track safety KPI's while monitoring the trends of AFR and IRF to reverse any negative trends.
- Created the safety leadership council to aid in the proper handling of workers compensation claims, accidents, incident investigations and to allow the employee the right to a hearing to determine whether the incident was investigated thoroughly.
- Performed hands-on training of all hazardous materials training of HM126F.
- Researched and implemented new innovative ways to communicate with the internal customer such as DriveCam, Mobileye, TPI software, Omnitracs software in the efforts to raise the level of accountability and change driver behavior.
- Spearheaded the improvement in drug and alcohol program from 58% completion, to 100%within 45 days.
- Directly responsible for ALL safety, security, OSHA, high value freight security, and building security at all locations.
Regional Safety Director
MV Transportation LLC
Dallas, TX
08.2015 - 01.2019
- Establish training for employees on a wide range of safety topics including, driver training, pedestrian awareness, conflict resolution, driver assault prevention, safe work practices, first aid, emergency response, SMS, regulatory compliance.
- Provide critical input to the development of the county-wide Capital Improvement Plan (CIP)to grow the transit authority infrastructure and ensure the plan is being met and messaged to stakeholders.
- Led a consistent improvement in IFR, AFR and W/C over a 18-month period.
- Point of contact concerning issues that involve Capital Projects at the beginning stage within and outside the organization.
- Work with Fairfax County staff on strategic goals, define objectives and meet goals through defined metrics.
- Served as a key member of the regional leadership team to drive safety and security initiatives with regards to policy and capabilities.
- Establish training for employees on a wide range of safety topics including, driver training, pedestrian awareness, conflict resolution, driver assault prevention, safe work practices, first aid, emergency response, SMS, regulatory compliance, and other topics.
- Spearhead the audit program aimed at ensuring that all facilities maintain compliance with corporate and regulatory authority policy.
- Ensure all safety incidents (personal injuries, vehicle accidents and property damage) including near misses are reported and investigated including root cause determination and establishment of appropriate corrective actions.
- Cut vehicle accidents by 36% year over year.
- Cut work injuries by 61% year over year.
- Lead the company's quality programs including the Pedestrian Safety Working Group that will establish operational practices, near-miss tracking and record-keeping that will enable consistently meeting industry standards and client expectations.
- Champion activities designed to empower employees to take ownership of and lead safety efforts in their role.
- Ensure compliance with MV Transportation and Fairfax County corporate safety policies including the MV Safety Manual, Client Policy Manual, SSEPP Manual, Crisis Management Manual, SSPP Manual and Driver Training Manual.
- Led other loss control and prevention initiatives that specifically include Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Maintenance Safety Equipment, Field and Facility Safety Equipment.
- Led the company's quality programs including the Pedestrian Safety Working Group that will establish operational practices, near-miss tracking and record-keeping that will enable consistently meeting industry standards and client expectations.
- Represent MV Transportation and ensure compliance with a broad range of federal, state, and local government regulations Compliance with US federal regulations specifically includes those of the following agencies: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of Transportation (DOT) and Virginia Dept. Of Transportation (VDOT).
Corporate Director of Safety & Security
CTTI Transportation LLC.
Woodford, VA
05.2011 - 08.2015
- Review and update all safety policies and procedures.
- Implement safety KPI’s for the department.
- Operate a budget of 1.3 million to ensure safety, wellness and training are prepare.
- Eliminated waste by implementing a cost cutting inventory control system.
- Instituted the telamatics system to lower safety concerns of increased risk in the usage of mobile devices, lack of safety belt usage and speeding which lead to a decrease of 11% over 90-day period.
- Implemented inward and outward facing camera systems.
- Overall safety improvement of 36% in 9 months.
- Lowered w/c claims by 32%.
- Created the driver safe driving awards program.
- Successfully completed 155 days without a preventable accident.
Regional Director of Safety and Security
United Petroleum Transports Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
07.2007 - 04.2011
- Region of 10 locations 1200 employees.
- Created a new driver progress reporting process.
- Created a new safety program known as safety blitz.
- Increase safety meeting participation YOY by 49 percent.
- Lowered accident frequency by 41% YOY.
- Lowered injury frequency by 39% YOY.
- Implemented safety lane inspections to assist in improving vehicle safety inspections.
- Regional responsibilities from Boston, MA to Miami FL.
- Created new training program for new drivers.
- Implemented training process for forklift operators and warehouse working employees.
- Implemented a steel toe shoe policy in all hazardous areas.
- Increase security measures at all facilities to ensure non-hazardous materials incidents could occur.
- Created a training program for night shift employees to ensure they were issued company policies, regulations, and organization handbooks.
- Implemented training and certification classes for all staff. Assisted with certifications such as forklift, OSHA 10 & 30, Hazwoper, HM126F and proper load securement.
Education
Master of Science - Organizational Leadership
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL01.2023
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Health and Safety
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL01.2020
Skills
- Strategic Thought processes
- Creative Thinker
- Interpersonal Skills
- Contact Negotiation
- Team Motivation
- Project Management
- Leadership
- Mentoring
- Communication Skills
- Government Regulations Expertise
- NIMS/ICS Certification
- Planning
- Conflict Resolution
- Quality Assurance
- Safety Training
- CPR
- First Aid
- Substance Abuse Professional
- Union Negotiation
- MS Office Suites
- Employee Mentoring
- Training and Development
- Community Outreach
- Housekeeping
- DOT Industry Expertise
- Emergency Management
- PTASP
- PTSCTP
- Accident Investigations
- Data Analytics
- Written Communication
- Organizational Skills
- Research
- Performance Analysis
- Problem-solving
- Decision-making
Affiliations
- COMTO – Palm Beach, Florida
- FTSON - CUTR Training
- TMTA - Texas Motor Transportation Association
- NCS - National Safety Council
- HCSP - Houston Council of Safety Professionals
- SASC - San Antonio of Safety Professionals
- NATMI - North American Transportation & Management Institute
- LMTA - Louisiana Motor Transportation Association
- VTA - Virginia Trucking Association
- NRA - National Rifle Association
- SVFD - Volunteer Fire Department
Certification
- Transit System Rail Safety, TSI, Lanham, MD
- Transportation Safety and Security Professional, TSSP, 09/2018
- Driver Improvement Instructor AAA, Safety Driving Program, 2015, Mid-Atlantic Region, VA
- Accident Reconstruction, Midwest Accident Reconstruction, 2010, Concordia, MO
- Director of Safety, NATMI, 2008, Oklahoma City, OK
- First Observer Course, National Transit Institute, 2018, Petersburg, VA, USA
- World Safety Organization, 2018
Accomplishments
- 2018, World Safety Organization Certification
- 2018, Transportation Safety & Security Professional Certification
- 2016, 2nd Place Most Improved Safety and Security
- VA
- APTA
- 2014, Driver of the Year
- State of VA
- Marsh Group
- 2014, Safety Leadership Conference - Las Vegas, NV
- 2013, Safety Leadership Conference - Fredericksburg, VA
- 2013, Safety Management Council Conference - Charlottesville, VA
- 2013, Safety Leadership Conference - Boston, MA
References
References upon Request
Timeline
Sr. Dept. Safety Risk Coordinator
Washington Area Metropolitan Transportation Authority
02.2025 - Current
Director of Safety, Training, Security, Onboarding
Tom Hassel Transport Inc.
07.2021 - 01.2024
Sr. Manager of Safety & Training
Palm Beach County Transit Dba Palm Tran
06.2020 - 06.2021
Corporate Director of Safety, Security and Health
EPES Transport System Inc.
05.2019 - 07.2020
Regional Safety Director
MV Transportation LLC
08.2015 - 01.2019
Corporate Director of Safety & Security
CTTI Transportation LLC.
05.2011 - 08.2015
Regional Director of Safety and Security
United Petroleum Transports Inc.
07.2007 - 04.2011
Master of Science - Organizational Leadership
Columbia Southern University
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Health and Safety
Columbia Southern University