About Southwest Safety Services

Southwest Safety Services is a successful Safety and Emergency Management Consulting and Training business that is proudly owned by a Service-Disabled American Veteran.  Originally founded in 1996 as Southwest Safety Foundation, growth necessitated the business becoming an LLC as Southwest Safety Services.

Unique in the Safety and Emergency Management arena, Southwest Safety Services utilizes a “team approach” and routinely provides two (2) instructors for many of the courses and programs we support.  Our clientele have discovered this approach leads to safer training (such as Team Training for Confined Space or Trench Rescue) and a much more dynamic classroom environment.  We do, at the client’s request, provide single instructor training programs as well.

Our goal is to provide each client the close attention to detail that we would appreciate ourselves.  Additionally, we will not short-change any client by over-taxing our resources.  Specifically, we will not accept new work at the expense of providing superb support to an existing client; nor will we undertake any project that we do not believe we can completely and successfully support.

Southwest Safety Services’ Safety Team is a collection of experienced and seasoned professionals.  Our “talent pool” actually lives, eats, and sleeps the programs that we support.  Each team member is specifically selected for each program based upon their professional skills as well as their people skills.

Southwest Safety Services’
Instructor & Safety Team Qualifications

  • IS-100 (Introduction to the Incident Command System)
  • IS-200 (Basic Incident Command System)
  • IS-700 (National Incident Management System, an Introduction)
  • IS-800 (National Response Plan, an Introduction)
  • Incident Command System for Law Enforcement Officers
  • Domestic Preparedness (40-Hour Program)
  • Homeland Defense
  • Hyperbaric and Undersea Medicine – Board Certified
  • Instructor-Trainer, Medical Professional Rescuer / First Responder Operations
  • Instructor-Trainer, Title 29 CFR 1910 General Industry Safety
  • Instructor-Trainer, Title 29 CFR 1915/1917/1918 Maritime Safety
  • Instructor-Trainer, Title 29 CFR 1926 Construction Industry Safety
  • Instructor, Hazardous Materials for First Responders / Radiation
  • Instructor, Emergency Response to a Criminal / Terrorist Incident
  • Instructor, FEMA Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
  • Instructor, OSHA Disaster Site Worker
  • Instructor, Advanced and Occupational NITROX (Mixed Gas) SCUBA
  • Instructor, Paramedic School
  • Instructor, Hazardous Materials First Responder Operations Team
    • Highly Hazardous Chemicals; proprietary sites
  • Instructor, Medical Hazardous Materials First Responder Operations Team
    • Highly Hazardous Chemicals; proprietary sites
  • Hazardous Materials Team Leader
    • Hazardous Materials Technician
    • Hazardous Materials Specialist
    • Hazardous Materials / Hazardous Waste Transportation (US DOT)
    • Transport Security (US DOT)
    • On Scene Incident Commander
  • Technical Rescue Team Leader
    • Rope Rescue
    • Trench Rescue
    • Confined Space Rescue
    • Swift Water Rescue
    • Ocean Rescue
    • On Scene Incident Commander

 

The Owner / Director of Operations has over 30 years experience in safety engineering, training and management and is a certified Safety Master Instructor.  Having traversed 6 of the 7 seas and trekked 6 of the 7 continents, has developed an extensive background in national and international disaster and emergency preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery.  Following a Bachelor’s Degree in General Engineering and Naval Science, completed a Masters Degree in Systems Engineering and an Engineer’s Degree in Nuclear Engineering.

Southwest Safety Services has had the privilege of supporting these organizations among their clientele since being founded in 1996:

  • Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
  • Alliance Fire Protection Company
  • Alcoa, Inc.
  • Arizona Builders’ Alliance (ABA)
  • Arizona Division of Emergency Management (ADEM)
  • Arizona Grain
  • Austin Commercial
  • Barrick Gold Corporation
  • Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) of Tucson
  • Desert Security Fire Protection, Inc.
  • Environmental Biotech Southeast Phoenix
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
  • Foree & Vann, Inc.
  • GateWay Community College
  • Gila County
  • Graycor® Construction Company, Inc.
  • Intel® Corporation
  • IronCo Enterprises
  • Maricopa County
  • M & M Systems
  • Miller Electric Company, Inc.
  • Navajo Tribal Utility Authority
  • Rokey Builders
  • Scottsdale Cultural Council
  • Scottsdale Healthcare
  • Southwest Safety Training Alliance
  • State Industrial Products
  • Sun Devil Fire Equipment, Inc.
  • Suntec Concrete
  • Tolleson Dairy (Kroger Foods)
  • Turner Construction
  • United Dairymen of Arizona
  • University of California, San Diego