Description

The 2023 NECA Safety Roundtable will include discussion on OSHA Leading Indicator Initiatives, Updates on Proposed OSHA Heat Regulations, and a preview of the topics for the NECA Safety Professionals Institute.  With the assistance of members from both inside and outside contractors, Best Practices for Managing Safety Programs, and the discussion around Leading Safety Differently with a focus on Human Performance and Situational Awareness will also be discussed.

Speakers

• Moderated by Wes Wheeler

  NECA

  Wesley L. Wheeler, SMS, CESCP, is NECA’s Executive Director of Safety, a BCSP Safety Management Specialist, (SMS) and a NFPA Certified Electrical Safety Compliance Professional, (CESCP).  Wesley joined NECA in 2014 and has over 43 years of electrical experience. Prior to NECA, he was safety consultant in his own business, Wheeler Safety Services, Inc. and has been a Safety Director and OSHA Safety trainer for a large industrial based electrical contractor in Florida. Wesley is a qualified OSHA Construction Outreach Instructor and has assisted in OSHA Instructor classes for Electrical Training Alliance, (etA formerly known as the NJATC). He also has assisted etA in textbook development contributing to their OSHA workbooks. Wesley has served in many capacities in his career from electrician, foreman, superintendent, estimator, project manager to safety director and was a former member of OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH) from 2019 to 2023. He has also a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor license and has also served on the NECA Codes and Standards committee since 2008 representing NECA on the NEC-NFPA 70 Code Panels 6 and 7 and was member of the NFPA 70E Committee for the 2015 and 2018 editions. Wesley brings a unique over all perspective to his position. Wesley is also a trained First Aid/BLS instructor, a Department of Labor Mine Safety Health Administration Instructor, and has had OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer credentials from University of South Florida.

  

• Moderated by Michael Starner

  NECA

  Mike Starner is the Director of Outside Line Safety for the National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA). Mike is a Certified Utility Safety Professional (CUSP) and an OSHA Authorized Outreach Trainer. Mike has 29 years of operational and safety management experience in the electric utility field, including time with investor-owned utilities and electrical contractors before coming to NECA.