{"id":1120,"date":"2021-09-16T10:29:04","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T14:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:43:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T05:43:06","slug":"hse-leader-196636-refinery-chemicals-manufacturing-multi-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/exceptional-talent\/hse-leader-196636-refinery-chemicals-manufacturing-multi-site\/","title":{"rendered":"HSE Leader (196636) Refinery, Chemicals, Manufacturing \/ Multi-site"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

EHS Leader with 20 years of experience<\/strong>. Rick has led EHS programs for refinery, blending plants, warehouse, pipeline, bulk storage, and field operations. He is skilled in the WhyTree Fault and TapRoot processes. He has led EHS teams of up to 40 HSE techs and supervisors across multiple operations.<\/strong> He has also built and implemented successful programs from scratch for acquisitions. He is interested in finding a leadership opportunity where he can utilize his substantial EHS toolbox and skillset to make a difference and where he can be home at the end of the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Implemented a tiered inspection program across 43 facilities and field operations ensuring environmental, safety, and best practices compliance through regular verification.
\u2022 Developed a computer-based and classroom training program that resulted in a 50% decrease in cost and a sustained 100% training compliance and improved data retention.<\/strong>
\u2022 Introduced behavior-based safety and this resulted in operating for 2 years with 1 recordable injury compared with 6 to 10 per year. This was accomplished while increasing work activity from 600k man hours up to 3.5M man-hours.<\/strong>
\u2022 Introduced case management training for supervisors and aggressive first aid training. Resulted in significant cost reductions.
\u2022 Reduced lost days away from work which reduced Workman\u2019s comp rates.<\/strong>
\u2022 Orchestrated OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Star Worksites at two facilities, receiving OSHA Outreach Star Status at each during the first year.<\/strong>
\u2022 Developed an incident management system that integrated leading and lagging indicators by assessing incident causal factors and a Behavior-Based Safety System (BBS). This combined “real-need” and prevention focus on the safety processes significantly reduced repetitive incidents and occurrences.<\/strong>
\u2022 Directed Health and Safety support for all operations within the corporation.
\u2022 Lead a team of 40 Field HSE Technicians and field-based supervisors.<\/strong>
\u2022 Oversee HES aspects of remote arctic explorations project including Ice Road construction, mobile living quarters, temporary airstrip, and testing

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\u2022 OSHA 1910
\u2022 Petroleum refinery processing facilities,
\u2022 Directed two teams located at two acid blending facilities
\u2022 Supports facilities from unmanned to 500 personnel locations with full-service lines
\u2022 Bulk Material Storage and transportation facility including dry material handling such and cement and barite and liquids such as drilling fluids, methanol, and bulk corrosion inhibitors
\u2022 Large scale warehousing operations
\u2022 Water handling operations
\u2022 Large scale remediation, grinding, and injection operations
\u2022 Oil and Gas industry fluids R&D and production laboratories.
\u2022 R.C.R.A – Administration of waste aspects of SQG and CESQG classified facilities
\u2022 S. W. P. P. Plan – Drafted and manage SWPP plans for facilities.
\u2022 S. P. C. C. Plan – Developed and implemented SPCC plans for facilities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Formally trained and experienced in\u201d<\/strong>
\u2022 WhyTree Fault tree methodology
\u2022 Taproot\u00ae System Improvement Inc.
\u2022 Critical List of Causes (CLC)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Workers Comp <\/strong>
\u2022 Management of field aspects of Workers Comp process
\u2022 Direct case management of injured workers
\u2022 Managed interface between Operator and Services Company personnel from both sides
\u2022 Process Safety Management (PSM)
\u2022 Integration of Personnel safety standard into PSM environment <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Refinery Plant Operations \u2013 BP
\u2022 Acid Blending Operations \u2013 Halliburton
\u2022 Warehouse Operations \u2013 BP, Chevron, Blue Ridge
\u2022 Construction Operations \u2013 Peak, BP, Blue Ridge
\u2022 Machining, Welding, Maintenance Operations \u2013 PEAK, Blue Ridge, BP
\u2022 Compressor \/ Pipeline Operations \u2013 Blue Ridge, Chevron
\u2022 Change Management
\u2022 Training Contractors on Site
\u2022 Risk Assessments
\u2022 Design Of Plans \/ Programs
\u2022 Liaison With State \/ Federal Regulatory Agencies
\u2022 State \/ Federal Reporting
\u2022 Negotiating with State \/ Federal Agencies
\u2022 Union and Non-Union Environments
\u2022 Reducing Recordables
\u2022 NPDES permits
\u2022 RCRA Permitting
\u2022 Stormwater Permitting
\u2022 Air Permitting
\u2022 Chemical Inventory program
\u2022 Emergency Response
\u2022 Investigating Accidents
\u2022 Maintaining Safety Records \/ Metrics
\u2022 Organizing \/ Scheduling Safety Meetings
\u2022 Conducting PHA Audits
\u2022 Industrial Hygiene
\u2022 Managing Safety Techs
\u2022 OSHA Recordkeeping
\u2022 Multi-plant Responsibility
\u2022 S.T.O.P. Safety Training Operators Program
\u2022 Safety Audits
\u2022 Safety Training<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Education<\/strong>
The Master\u2019s College Santa Clarita, CA
Multnomah University Portland, OR<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EHS Leader with 20 years of experience. Rick has led EHS programs for refinery, blending plants, warehouse, pipeline, bulk storage, and field operations. He is skilled in the WhyTree Fault and TapRoot processes. He has led EHS teams of up to 40 HSE techs and supervisors across multiple operations. He has also built and implemented…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[458,7],"tags":[28,66,154,155,319,438,439,440,441,457],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ehs","category-exceptional-talent","tag-manufacturing","tag-chemical","tag-multiple-sites","tag-safety","tag-refinery","tag-environmental","tag-ehs","tag-epa","tag-osha","tag-hse"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mriomega.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}