Joshua Campbell
West Columbia
Summary
Insightful and analytical health and safety specialist with 15 years of experience dedicated to improving plant-wide occupational health and environmental practices.
Recognized as a respected leader in the field, this professional has received peer-nominated accolades for expertise in health and safety.
An innovative problem solver, successfully reducing incidents and streamlining processes to ensure a safer work environment.
Demonstrates a strong commitment to environmental sustainability by strategically managing resources to control the footprint in industrial and manufacturing settings.
Embraces a self-starting and proactive learning approach, embracing the servant leadership mindset fostered in a previous HPWS environment, enabling achievement of safety buy-in through active engagement.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Director of Cement Safety
Summit Materials
07.2024 - Current
- Fostered a culture of transparency through weekly cadence calls with the team by encouraging Plant leadership teams to share best practice ideas.
- Prioritized tasks and allocated resources appropriately to keep teams focused and safe.
- Collaborated with leadership to develop company-wide safety policies, procedures, and guidelines. All managed in Union environments.
- Assisted senior leadership in managing all aspects of safety.
- Conducted thorough incident investigations to identify root causes and prevent future occurrences. Started a global corrective action template to ensure that any findings that directly put our employees in the line of fire for unsafe events will be enacted at all plants.
Sr. Safety Manager, Carolinas Division
Argos, LLC
12.2020 - Current
- Responsible for providing a safety mindset in the Carolina’s
- Helped improve the CSA scores through DOT mock inspections and ensuring that solutions were made for any defects
- Ensured that the Carolina’s stays compliant through plant inspections and follow through of the systems in place at Argos
- Lead implementer for new platforms and programs within Ready Mix and Cement
- Paperless: Created an electronic form to document monthly safety meetings, peer to peer recognition system, and initial notification of incidents
- DOT Mock Inspection program: Helped improve the passing percentage of Mixer trucks by DOT inspection from 58% to 96% through rigorous and rewarding mock inspection conducted by management and leadership
- Systems Oriented: Lead administrator in new EHS platforms and responsible for training the organization for full implementation
- Samsara Implementor: Responsible for training all management and leadership on the integration and implementation of Samsara dashcam system
- Performing gap analyses at each of the cement plants and creating action plans to institute them at each site
- Tracking KPI’s and Leading indicators to be proactive to changing situations
- Auditing at all sites and assigning corrective actions to help minimize MSHA citations and improve processes
- MSHA knowledge through training and inspections and developing relationships with them
Corporate Safety Director
NaturChem, Inc.
09.2016 - 08.2020
- Responsible for a variety of roles in the Human Resource, Safety, and Compliance Department
- DOT Compliance: Responsible for DOT compliance, including HOS and driver requirements in a fleet of 250 vehicles spanning over 20 states and driving 5 million miles a year
- Insurance: Responsible for working closely with our insurance company filing claims and driving them to closure
- Also, worked hand in hand to lower the companies GL and Automobile insurance claims from 40+ a year to 15 or less a year by year 3
- Workmen's Compensation: Worked closely with workman's compensation cases and was there step by step with any injured employee throughout the whole process
- Lowered the workman's comp cases from 12 a year to 1 or less by year 4
- Human Resources: Created a 5 day orientation program to prepare new hires for what they could encounter at a company where 100% of the work is completed in the elements of outside
- Involved in the interview and recruiting process all the way through orientation
- Safety Culture: Successfully implemented a safety culture in a production- based company through next level training, hands-on experience, and a belief in the team
- Achieved having 300+ workers buy- in to the safety culture
- Leadership: Created a safety committee that has turned into a Leadership committee
- Our General Manager's come from this group, that is always taught since day one that their safety matters to us
- Document Controller: Moderator of Standard Operating Procedures: Responsible for the creation and upkeep of over 120 standard operating practices and programs that have helped raise our companies MOD rating from 1.10 to a 0.62
- Incident Investigations: Led all incident investigations and root cause failure analyses
- Assigned all corrective actions and drove them to completion
- Training and Presenting: Responsible for creating and presenting a weekly meeting involving Microsoft office
- All training was performed through Go To Meeting or face-to-face
- Auditing and Assessing: Created an auditing and assessing system that included behavioral observations of technicians in the field and assessing compliance of DOT vehicles
Education
Bachelor's - Human Resource Management
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Health and Safety
Columbia Southern University
Orange Beach, AL03-2016
Skills
- Workers' Compensation
- OSHA
- Budgeting
- Lean Manufacturing
- Employee Orientation
- Human Resources
- Manufacturing
- 5S
- Root Cause Analysis
- Incident investigation
- Implementing policies
- Safety program development
- Hazard identification
- Safety audits
Certification
- OSHA Authorized General Industry Trainer
- Kolbe Certified Analyst
- Defensive Driving Instructor
- CPR/First Aid/AED Instructor
Personal Information
- Willing To Relocate: Anywhere
- Authorized To Work: US for any employer
Timeline
Associate Director of Cement Safety
Summit Materials
07.2024 - Current
Sr. Safety Manager, Carolinas Division
Argos, LLC
12.2020 - Current
Corporate Safety Director
NaturChem, Inc.
09.2016 - 08.2020
- OSHA Authorized General Industry Trainer
- Kolbe Certified Analyst
- Defensive Driving Instructor
- CPR/First Aid/AED Instructor
Bachelor's - Human Resource Management
Columbia Southern University
Bachelor of Science - Occupational Health and Safety
Columbia Southern University
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