Justin Smith, Head of Environmental Health & Safety-Americas

Years as an ASSP member: 5 Years
Years in the safety industry: 20 Years

Key responsibilities of your job

• Develop EHS strategy for North, Central and South America
• Establish organizational EHS performance objectives
• Lead teams of EHS professionals in the implementation of EHS management system frameworks in pursuit of organizational performance targets
• Partner with Executive Leadership teams to operationalize EHS strategies, through integration of EHS tools, methodologies and objectives into business operations.

April Greene, Senior Consultant, Kestrel Tellevate LLC (KTL)

Years as an ASSP member: 2 Years
Years in the safety industry: 15 Years

3 Key responsibilities of your job

• Developing OSHA-compliant safety programs and training for public and private organizations.
• Developing, implementing, and auditing formal health & safety, environmental, and quality management systems according to the ISO 45001/14001/9001 standards.
• Investigating accidents and hazardous incidents to determine the root cause and recommending and monitoring corrective actions.

Ryan Bailey, Senior Manager Regulatory Affairs/Canadian National Railway

Years as an ASSP member: 10 Years
Years in the safety industry: 6 Years

3 Key responsibilities of your job

I manage our regulatory required programs, such as certification programs, risk reduction programs, and incident reporting programs. I am also the main point of contact between CN and the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and will coordinate any formal requests made to CN. I represent CN in settlement conferences with the FRA regarding civil penalties and violations that we may have received. I also will interpret the federal regulations for our operating functions and ensure that our operations are within the regulations. My team also consists of our Operating Practices department which includes subject matter experts in operating rules. The Operating Practices department maintains and updates our rulebooks and other operating manual.

Kelly Wilson, Safety Professional – DT Midstream

Years as an ASSP member: 2 Years
Years in the safety industry: 5 Years

3 Key responsibilities of your job

• Manage safety for a geographically dispersed natural gas pipeline operation, encompassing 12 sites across 5 states
• Provide a variety of safety training, perform internal audits of each station, and lead event investigations to ensure compliance and provide solutions to enhance corrective actions
• Provide safety support on various large construction projects including installation of new pipeline, valves, and meter stations

Michael Lies, Project EHS Manager / Turner Construction

Years as an ASSP member: 3 Years
Years in the safety industry: 10 Years

3 Key responsibilities of your job

• Pre-project safety start up reviews
• Project safety management
• Project safety leadership (coaching, auditing, inspecting)