JEFFREY M.

COLLINS
33 Farmstead Lane
Windsor, Connecticut 06095
Home: 860-298-9140
email; jc5f5282@westpost.net
SUMMARY
Environmental, Safety, Health and Security Manager with demonstrated leadership
in driving an organization to improve ESHS results through management commitment
and employee engagement.
* Expertise includes compliance with OSHA, EPA, DHS, DOT and NRC regulations.
* Experience includes Human Resource, Maintenance, Utilities and Public Affairs
Management.
* Effectiveness is enhanced through a strong team commitment and an ability to w
ork with personnel at all levels of management and labor.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
CIANBRO CORPORATION, Bloomfield, Connecticut
2008 - 2010
Assistant Safety and Human Resource Manager
Responsible for Team Member safety, regulatory compliance and staffing at a gas
and transmission line installation, an emergency railroad bridge repair project
, an electric transmission and distribution line installation, department main
tenance of a paper recycling plant, an annual shutdown at a trash recycling pla
nt and multiple hydro-electric plant maintenance shutdowns.
* Implemented Project Safety Plans to ensure zero injuries at each project.
* Improved coordination with project medical clinics to ensure injury management
and cost control.
* Initiated OSHA Voluntary Protection Program gap analysis, corrective actions a
nd application process.
* Executed recruitment and staffing plans for personnel resources at each projec
t.
SOLUTIA, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts
2004 - 2008
Environmental, Safety, Health and Security Lead
Responsible for all elements of Environmental Compliance, Employee Safety and Re
gulatory Compliance, Process Safety Management, Industrial Hygiene, Workers Comp
ensation Cost Control, Fire Protection, Waste Water Plant Operations, Emergency
Response, Site Security and Public Affairs.
* Directly supervised seven ESHS Professionals, seven contracted Security person
nel and one ESHS Administrative Assistant.
* Attained American Chemistry Council Responsible Care 14001 Registration and OS
HA Voluntary Protection Program STAR Recertification.
* Designated as the Plant Maintenance and Utilities Lead during a transition per
iod from January 2006 to July, 2007.
* Drove total incident rate per one hundred employees from 4.1 to 2.9 reducing w
orkers compensations costs from $551,163 to$326,650.
* Reduced environmental reportable releases from two to zero.
* Trained in Lean Manufacturing and Six Sigma methodologies to include Value Str
eam Mapping, 5S and Predictive Maintenance.
INTERNATIONAL PAPER CORPORATION, Memphis, Tennessee
2003 - 2004
Corporate Health and Safety Program Manager
Corporate OSHA Voluntary Protection Program Coordinator for eighty-two STAR and
MERIT sites ensuring continued certification and recertification by OSHA of all
US locations.
* Provided Health and Safety leadership and assistance to our Weldwood Forest Pr
oducts Businesses in Canada and the US Coated and Supercalender Division.

INTERNATIONAL PAPER CORPORATION, Hamilton, Ohio 1994 - 2003

Environmental, Health and Safety Manager
Responsible for all elements of Environmental Compliance, Employee Safety and Re
gulatory Compliance, Industrial Hygiene, Medical Services, Fire Protection, Soli
ds Recovery Plant Operations and Workers Compensation Cost Control.
* Managed a workforce of one full time and one part-time Registered Nurse and Wo
rkers Compensation Specialist, a part-time Administrative Assistant, a part-time
Fire Protection Specialist, two Safety Leaders, two VPP Team Leaders and four S
olids Recovery Plant Operators.
* Drove total incident rate per one hundred employees from 8.1 to 1.2 reducing w
orkers compensations costs from $555,165 to $51,828.
INTERNATIONAL PAPER CORPORATION, Westfield, Massachusetts
1991 - 1994
Division Safety and Industrial Hygiene Manager
Responsible for all elements of Employee Safety and Regulatory Compliance, Indus
trial Hygiene, Medical Services and Workers Compensation Cost Control for five P
aper Mills in Massachusetts and one in Wisconsin.
RELATED EXPERIENCE
JAMES RIVER CORPORATION - South Hadley, Massachusetts
Group Safety and Industrial Hygiene Manager
UNION CARBIDE CORPORATION - East Hartford, Connecticut
Division Staff Assistant; Environment, Health and Safety
Division Production Planning Associate - Glad Operations
Production Supervisor - Glad Operations
MILITARY CAREER
Lieutenant Colonel, United States Army - Personnel Management Officer
EDUCATION
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Hartford Graduate Center, Hartford, Connec
ticut
Master of Science in Human Resource Management
Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont
Bachelor of Arts in Government
AFFILIATIONS
American Society of Safety Engineers
National Safety Council - Safety Council of Western New England - Past Director
Region 1 Voluntary Protection Program Participants Association
Massachusetts Chemistry and Technology Alliance - Past Director