EHS Manager at Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area
- Current
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- Corporate EHS Manager at Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
- Owner at Personal Visions
- Past
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- Corporate EHS Manager at Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
- Youth Group Leader at Harbor UU
- Colleague at Harbor Unitarian Universalist Congregation
- Environmental Engineer at Sappi Fine Paper
- EHS Coordinator at Blue Heron Paper Company
- EHS Coordinator at Smurfit Stone
- Education
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- Kalamazoo College
- Western Michigan University
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Evert VanderBerg’s Summary
• Manage all EH&S issues for up to 600 employees in California, Maine, Michigan, and Oregon.
• Lead manager for ISO 14001 process implementation.
• Develop and manage EH&S permits, policies, and reports for site (NPDES, RCRA, TSCA, DOT, EPCRA, OSHA, CAA, CWA, USDA)
• Excellent history in successful compliance negotiation while establishing working relationships with regulators to meet mutual need.
• Manage multiple contractor (construction, specialty) capital and maintenance work.
• Develop and manage site hazard communication and emergency response processes.
• Develop and conduct training for all levels of staff in classroom, hands on, and CBT settings
• Conduct or manage routine audits, internal compliance audits and multimedia audits.
• Implemented site chemical tracking and management system.
• Reduced OSHA incident rate from 12 to 3.5 in two years.
• Dropped the lost work case incident rate from 3 to .7 over one year.
• Reduced the workers compensation cost related to current injury and illness by over half in a two-year period.
• Developed and mange internal recycling and alternate use programs.
• Implemented storm water and wastewater primary clarification and management.
• Implement and manage process safety management (PSM) systems for toxic and flammable substances.
• Conduct asbestos remediation, identification and disposal work for 104-year-old 120-acre facility.
• Manage various industrial hygiene issues around toxics (gases, heavy metals and biological).
Evert VanderBerg’s Specialties:
• Total quality management system facilitator.
• Department, cross-functional and project team leader with consistent on time and under budget performance.
• Manage an annual budget of $2.5 million.
• Developed, managed or contributed to capital improvement projects with a total budget of over $11 million.
• Manage 2-15 direct reports in laboratory, safety, and production/maintenance in a multiple union environment.
• Developed intranet websites for EHS use
Evert VanderBerg’s Experience
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Corporate EHS Manager
Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
(Packaging and Containers industry)
April 2006 — Present (3 years 9 months)
Responsible for corporate wide environmental, health and safety processes. Oliver-Tolas has five facilities; three plants in the USA, on in the Netherlands, and one in China. Our primary products are flexible packaging for the global medical industry.
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Owner
Personal Visions
(Environmental Services industry)
August 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Consulting, Safety & Environmental Course creation, Training services, Industrial photography, website management.
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Corporate EHS Manager
Oliver-Tolas Healthcare Packaging
(Environmental Services industry)
2006 — 2009 (3 years )
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Youth Group Leader
Harbor UU
(Religious Institutions industry)
February 2005 — August 2009 (4 years 7 months)
Managed an educational program for disadvantaged youth from the Muskegon area. Focused on teaching life skills and goals management to empower the youth to advance in life.
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Colleague
Harbor Unitarian Universalist Congregation
(Environmental Services industry)
2004 — August 2009 (5 years )
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Environmental Engineer
Sappi Fine Paper
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Paper & Forest Products industry)
February 2001 — August 2005 (4 years 7 months)
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EHS Coordinator
Blue Heron Paper Company
(Paper & Forest Products industry)
1991 — 2001 (10 years )
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EHS Coordinator
Smurfit Stone
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Packaging and Containers industry)
October 1990 — January 2001 (10 years 4 months)
Additional Information
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Evert VanderBerg’s Interests:
Photography, Coding, Gardening, Fish keeping, Fiber crafts, Writing.
Evert VanderBerg’s Contact Settings
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