2000-present | PAYNE PREVENTION
Owner & President
Ergonomics Consulting & Training
Clients include foundry operations, automotive, paper and other manufacturing: union and non-union sites. Projects have included conducting ergonomics assessments, creating customized ergonomics observation tools for team use, ergonomics awareness training and ergonomics trainer training for teams.
Speaking
National Ergonomics Conference & Expo, 8 hour Professional development seminar, "Basic Ergonomics for Industrial Ergonomics Committees", and 90 minute presentation, "Achieving success with ergonomics committees" , 12/02
National Safety Congress, "Ergonomics Trainer Training", 10/02
McWane Industry annual safety meeting: "Addressing Ergonomics issues in foundries", 4/02
American Foundry Society: "Ergonomics makes cents", 3/02
National Ergonomics Conference & Expo, 8 hour Professional development seminar: "Ergonomics for Site Leaders", 12/01
Michigan Self Insurers Association, "The impact of job satisfaction on employee injuries", 10/01
National Safety Congress, "Observations in the dark", 9/01
National Safety Council mid-year meeting, "Ergonomics for Site Leaders", 4/01
Writing
Currently writing ergonomics book to be published by American Society of Engineers
Article to be published in Occupational Health & Safety's Workplace Ergonomics, Critical factors for success for team based ergonomics processes" 1/03
Created & updated marketing material including brochure, seminar flyers, introductory letters, proposals and website, www.payneprevention.com
1992-2000 | BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY, INC. (BST)
Ojai, California (home office)
Senior Consultant, Manager Consulting Services
Lead consultant for more than 30 implementations of Behavioral Based Safety
Industries included petrochemical, pulp & paper, light & heavy manufacturing
Implemented a significant change initiative: cultural assessment, staged implementation process involving work with implementation team and site leadership (including union leaders), process evaluation and continuous improvement activities.
Direct experience with diverse employee groups: e.g. union sites with labor relations ranging from poor to excellent, Ph.D. Chemists to third generation paper makers
Collected data, performed assessments and reassessments, analyzed surveys and other data for longitudinal studies on effectiveness of behavior based safety in industry. Results of work published in Safety Science, 1999.
Product & Business Development
Developer of BST Products/Services: BAPP® Approach to Ergonomics, Office BAPP®, Behavioral Back Injury Prevention, Motivating Observers
Subject matter expert for Behavior Based Ergonomics Video series, 2000
Sales of follow on consulting services
Manager/trainer
Co-manager of Consultant organization (1997- 2000)
Team Leader of Consultant team (1996)
Consultant trainer (ergonomics, problem solving)
Senior Consultant focus areas: follow on business development (1998 -2000), training materials development (1996-1997), consultant team building (1996-1997), ergonomics (1993-2000)
Internal Consultant trainer and field coach
Speaking/writing
Industry Speaker (NSC,ASSE, CSSE: national & regional conferences)
BST Conference presenter for annual regional workshops (up to 250 attendees) and national user's conference (up to 2200 attendees)
Published several articles for Perspectives in Behavioral Management, a BST quarterly publication
Contributed chapter for book, Employee Driven Systems for Safe Behavior, Thomas R. Krause, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995
Wrote six articles for CTD News, on Ergonomics &/or behavior based approaches to ergonomics, 1999-2000
1990-1992 | BEHAVIORAL OCCUPATIONAL MEDICAL GROUP
Bakersfield Family Medical Center
Bakersfield, California
Director, Health & Safety
Consultant to occupational client companies (injury management, ergonomics, back injury prevention, health promotion)
Frequent speaker/trainer to service organizations and businesses (Board member and active speaker's bureau member for AHA, volunteer for ACS)
Safety Director for medical center (200 employees)
Coordinator of employee health & wellness program
1988-1990 | FRITO-LAY, INC.
Bakersfield, California
Manager, West Area Health & Safety
Area health and safety resource for manufacturing (9), transportation (6), and sales operations (5) in the western U.S.
Member of Corporate Safety Steering Committee: task force leader: modified duty program. Task force member: soft-tissue injury reduction, physician relations.
Master trainer and subject matter expert for field safety technical training programs
Facilitated initial development of employee driven health promotion programs at multiple locations
1987-1988 | FITNESS APPRAISAL, INC.
Long Beach, CA
Exercise Physiologist
Conducted sub-maximal graded exercise testing and consulted with employees of contracted companies
1985-1987 | FITNESS SERVICES OF TEXAS
College Station, Texas
Owner/Director
Developed curriculum for and instructed fitness instructors throughout state of Texas
Director of aerobics program for "Gyms of Texas", a supervised and trained pool of 50 instructors
1985-1987 | TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY
College Station, Texas
Graduate Assistant Instructor
Instructed physical education activity classes for college students (lecture & movement)
1983-1985 | SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY
Huntsville, Texas
Graduate Assistant Instructor
Instructed physical education activity classes for college students (lecture & movement)
1982-1983 | CY-FAIR, I.S.D.
Houston, Texas
Teacher
Elementary school, all subjects
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