Woody Cole

Experience

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  Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)

  Sept 1972 - Jan 1994

  Corporate Safety & Emergency Response Professional (Retired)

  Assigned to progressive, professional positions in safety, industrial hygiene and emergency response disciplines including supervision of professional staff and corporate staff functions. Developed and implemented safety, environmental and industrial hygiene processes and training programs that significantly increased the safety performance at a gas plant in West Texas and an oil refinery in Houston, Texas. Developed health and safety policies and procedures, which lead to Oil and Gas production sites being awarded the company president’s safety award three consecutive years. Show less

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  Crown Central Petroleum Corporation

  Mar 1994 - Apr 2000

  Safety & Emergency Response Superintendent (Retired)

  Directly supervised ten safety, health and emergency response professionals. Responsible for the administration of the safety, industrial hygiene, and emergency response process at the Houston, Texas oil refinery. Employee OSHA recordable injury rate decreased from 16.5 to 1.4 over a five-year period as a result of enacted processes. Site received the NPRA Gold Award for safety excellence five consecutive years. Implemented dramatically improved safety and emergency response training reducing employee’s training time by 30% saving the company significant cost. Show less

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  Dynegy

  Apr 2000 - Jan 2004

  Business Unit Corporate Safety Specialist

  Managed all safety and industrial hygiene programs in eleven gas turbine electrical generation plant sites in eight states. Trained eleven site safety representatives in their duties and responsibilities and comprehensively trained all employees at four newly constructed sites. Responsible for safety, health and fire protection audits and approval of audit resolutions. Conducted industrial hygiene assessments and established procedures/practices based on data gathered. The implementation of programs, audits and training resulted in the Business Unit OSHA recordable injury rate decreasing 77% over a 30 – month period. Show less

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  Calpine Corporation

  Jun 2004 - now

  Develop and administer policies and programs to ensure all Calpine facilities are in compliance with physical security requirements and have effective physical security procedures and techniques. Supportive role assessment of all fire protection systems fleet-wide and liasion with loss control, internal audit, safety and health professionals, fire departments and law enforcement officials. Support combined cycle gas turbine electrical generation plant sites in fifteen states and Canada. Several sites are OSHA VPP STAR sites. Support line consists of Site Safety Contact, Plant Manager and Regional Vice President.

  • Corporate Physical Security & Fire Protection Manager

    Jul 2014 - now

  • Corporate Safety & Health Manager

    Jun 2004 - Jul 2014