Kelly Baum
Kilgore
Summary
Dynamic safety professional with extensive experience, excelling in incident investigation and safety management. Proven track record of enhancing compliance and reducing risks, leading to over 400,000 safe work hours in the past three years. Strong interpersonal communication skills foster collaboration and drive safety culture improvements across diverse teams. Highly skilled in navigating complex regulatory environments with background in effectively developing and implementing compliance programs across various industries. Possess strong analytical, organizational, and communication skills, vital for interpreting legislation and ensuring adherence to legal standards. Demonstrated ability to lead teams towards maintaining operational integrity and minimizing risk, contributing to the creation of robust compliance cultures within organizations.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Site Safety Manager/Assistant Project Manager
Altech, Inc
Texarkana
08.2022 - Current
- Company Overview: General Contractor-Texarkana, TX
- Provide safety oversight for all subcontractors on industrial new building project.
- Conducted safety audits, provided new site personnel orientation, worked with client to align safety programs and meet expectations.
- Managed all incident investigation reporting, monthly safety meetings with all project employees and reviewed daily safety paperwork.
- Daily general oversight of project including safety and operations.
- Daily computer data entry and weekly reports to client regarding project progress.
- Weekly meeting with subcontractor supervision to review expectations, set goals and address issues.
- Direct management of onsite labor crew and temporary employees.
- General Contractor-Texarkana, TX
- Over 400,000 safe work hours, zero recordables.
- Inspected scaffolding systems, ladders, fall protection systems, rigging equipment.
- Reviewed construction drawings, identified potential hazards, and developed appropriate control measures.
- Assisted clients to resolve deficiency in risk prevention, business controls and productivity.
- Orientation for all new site employees
- Project security
- Liaison with clients regarding safety and operations
- Daily activity monitoring
Safety and Health Supervisor
Graphic Packaging
Queen City
05.2018 - 05.2021
- Provide oversight of safety programs, including but not limited to review, modification, and approval.
- Develop and present safety training for new and existing employees.
- Conduct audits of job tasks and company permits to identify gaps.
- Maintain OSHA required documentation and lead incident investigations to ensure root cause is determined.
- Manage contractor safety - share company expectations and best practices.
- Direct case management with on-site health care provider.
- Managed all safety data entry and follow up with action items assigned to facility personnel.
- Participate with Process Safety Management team for managing ClO2, Methanol, Turpentine areas.
- Reviewed and updated safety training for Mill employees.
- Conducted safety training for all new hire salary employees and hourly employees.
- Worked with EHS Manager to institute routine contractor safety meetings.
- Managed Workers Compensation cases.
- Assisted with management of Security and Health Services with 24/7 coverage.
- Lead and provided direction for hourly safety support team.
- Conducted mill-wide confined space hazard assessments for over 700 permit-required spaces.
- Oversight of contractor safety program.
- Directed, supervised and evaluated medical, clerical or maintenance personnel.
- Conducted regular safety inspections of work areas and equipment to identify hazards and implement corrective actions.
Safety Consultant
SFB Logistics
Keokuk
01.2012 - 12.2018
- Provide direct safety oversight of multiple contractors at several multimillion-dollar projects.
- Conduct site safety assessments, report observations to clients and contractor companies, leading to improved safety culture.
- Track environmental and safety incidents of contractors for client.
- Managed all accounting transactions for business.
- Rendered assistance to clients in restructuring company policies and procedures, as well as updating company profile for OSHA compliance to improve and encourage a safety focused culture.
- Lead Instructor over OSHA outreach training, as well as, Powered Industrial Truck, CPR, AED, and first aid training based on client's requirements.
- Investigated, resolved and reported on occurrences documented on employee incident and accident reports.
- Provided advice on the selection of personal protective equipment.
- Analyzed accident reports and identified trends in order to recommend corrective action.
HSE Facilitator/Office Manager
Fluor Corporation
Domino
06.2015 - 05.2018
- Assist HSE Manager regarding Outage HSE plan and provide daily safety oversight on special projects and safety involving craft crews.
- Provide onsite training on PSM (Process Safety Management) areas to ensure compliance.
- Developed safety training and trained on-site employees.
- At request of client, gained oversight of other contract companies on job site regarding HSE, including daily, weekly, and monthly reporting to client.
- Completed weekly employee payroll entry and auditing.
- Auditing and oversight of staff purchase credit cards.
- Oversight of drug and alcohol testing program on site.
- Managed all safety data entry and follow up with action items assigned to onsite management team.
- Completed weekly company employee payroll and client SAP updates for billing.
- Developed job safety analysis for routine and non-routine life critical job tasks.
- Performed audits of job sites to assist with tracking safety and environmental compliance.
- Selected to travel to secondary locations to provide oversight involving safety on several special projects.
- Forecasted and budgeted for HSE supplies.
- Organized and provided oversight of safety committee.
- Directed contract companies on capital projects, reporting directly to client.
- Developed and implemented required health, safety, and environmental training, including First Aid/CRP training.
- Eliminated learning gaps and effectively instructed students utilizing wide variety of innovative teaching aids and motivational and implementation strategies.
HSE Outage Lead
Fluor Corporation
New York
03.2015 - 05.2015
- Maintain strict compliance with safety, health, environmental and company guidelines.
- Assess the safety, health and environmental policies, procedures and made recommendations to bring site up to client and Fluor best practices.
- Collaborated with various departments to improve the safety, health, and environmental program.
- Developed, implemented, and monitored a Personal Development Plan for the site.
- Provided excellent service and attention to customers when face-to-face or through phone conversations.
- Approached customers and engaged in conversation through use of effective interpersonal and people skills.
HSE Manager. HSE FACILITATOR
Fluor Corporation
Domino
02.2014 - 11.2014
- Lead auditor providing direction to site management and craft regarding corporate audits to ensure compliance with customer health, safety, and environmental expectations.
- Facilitate training for onsite employees on Process Safety Management.
- Lead the initiative to control environmental incidents by providing coaching on how to minimize negative environmental impact.
- Developed hazard recognition on pre-job safety task assessment to amplify awareness of site employees.
Safety and Human Resource Director
Waggoner Solutions Company
Donnellson
06.2009 - 07.2012
- Partnered closely with employees, owners, customers, and several agencies to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws in both Human Resources and Safety departments, resulting in increased compliance.
- Created a standard hiring process for all new employees.
- Established procedures that included application completion, interview, background checks and pre-employment drug screening.
- Completed an official on-boarding process with new hires, including safety programs, human resource policies, company expectations, and work locations.
- Established performance metrics and evaluated staff to promote continuous improvement.
- Facilitated collaboration between teams by encouraging open communication channels.
- Used strong issue resolution and communication skills to cultivate and strengthen lasting client relationships.
- Monitored inventory levels and placed new orders for merchandise to keep supply well-stocked.
- Promoted a culture of innovation and encouraged staff to contribute ideas.
- Represented the organization at industry events, conferences, and public meetings.
Education
Associate of Applied Science - Chemical Dependency in General Industry
Southeastern Community College
Keokuk, IABachelor of Science - Occupational Safety and Health
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, ALSkills
- OSHA Authorized Outreach Instructor - General Industry and Construction 10/30 hour courses
- Incident investigation
- Microsoft Outlook
- Word
- Excel
- PowerPoint
- Developing training
- Developing/Revising Policies
- Auditing
- Workers' Compensation Case Management
- Human Resources
- Employee Orientation
- Management
- Administrative Experience
- Office management
- Accounts Payable
- Blueprint reading
- Maintaining confidentiality
- Project oversight
- Workplace inspections
- Health and safety compliance
- Risk assessment
- Safety management
- Safety training
- Client relations
- Team leadership
- Communication skills
- Job hazard analysis
- Emergency response planning
- Professionalism
- Behavior-based safety
- Interpersonal communication
- Machine guarding
- Attention to detail
- Multitasking capacity
- Fire prevention
- Program implementation
- Vendor / supplier performance management
- Conducting investigations
References
Available Upon Request
Personal Information
Work Permit: Authorized to work in the US for any employer
Timeline
Site Safety Manager/Assistant Project Manager
Altech, Inc
08.2022 - Current
Safety and Health Supervisor
Graphic Packaging
05.2018 - 05.2021
HSE Facilitator/Office Manager
Fluor Corporation
06.2015 - 05.2018
HSE Outage Lead
Fluor Corporation
03.2015 - 05.2015
HSE Manager. HSE FACILITATOR
Fluor Corporation
02.2014 - 11.2014
Safety Consultant
SFB Logistics
01.2012 - 12.2018
Safety and Human Resource Director
Waggoner Solutions Company
06.2009 - 07.2012
Associate of Applied Science - Chemical Dependency in General Industry
Southeastern Community College
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Safety and Health
Columbia Southern University
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