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Gary specializes in the area of safety, health environment, and quality services in training, facilitation, consultation, implementation, and continuous improvement. He focuses on Occupational Health & Safety and Environmental Management Systems. He has 20 years experience in Occupational Health and Safety and Environmental program delivery with experience in most major sectors (industry, mining, construction, services, etc.). Gary is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces with a total of sixteen years with the Department of National Defence.

Industry Experience

In quality management systems, he has been involved in the implementation of strategic downsizing of an organization and in the re-engineering of an organization. He specializes in the integration of safety, health, environment, and quality programs. He has assisted clients in the development of their quality, environment, and health & safety programs through the provision of training, facilitation and the writing of policies, procedures and work instructions. Gary has conducted gap analysis for OHSAS 18001 and assisted in the successful implementation of ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001 management systems. He has provided assistance to clients in the development of environmental management systems and in obtaining certificate of approvals (e.g. noise, air and waste transfer). Gary has experience in many areas of business management such as business measurement, team building, continual improvement (completed the Juran Continuous Improvement Facilitator’s Course), and re-engineering. He has consulted with a wide range of clients in all phases of management system implementation. Gary has also made presentations (speaker on risk assessment at the Aggregate Producers' Association of Ontario annual conference; speaker on OHSAS 18001:1999 at the Eastern Ontario Chapter of the CSSE) and provided training and consulting services to many companies throughout Canada and the USA on health, safety and environmental management systems.
Course Qualifications

Gary is qualified to teach the ISO9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001courses including the Lead Auditor courses. In the field of Health & Safety, Gary previously taught the IAPA Joint Health & Safety Committee Certified Member course as well as the Workplace Hazard Specific courses for the Plastics and Woodworking Industries and the MTCU Surface Miner Common Core course.

Trade Membership and Certifications

Gary has completed RABQSA Lead Auditor courses in ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and OHSAS 18001. He is a Canadian Registered Safety Professional and a member of the Board of Canadian Registered Safety Professionals and a Certified Health & Safety Consultant and a member of the Canadian Society of Safety Engineering. Gary is past Vice-Chair of the Eastern Ontario Chapter of the CSSE. Gary is a former member of the Canadian Armed Forces where he worked as a Communication Systems Technician specializing in aircraft navigation systems.

Education and Training

Gary is a graduate of the Loyalist College of Applied Arts, Belleville, Ontario in Business Administration.

Articles by Gary Pennington:

HEARING LOSS RELATED TO LEISURE ACTIVITIES
By Gary Pennington, CRSP, CHSC

We are fairly well protected from hearing loss in most workplaces nowadays due to legislation. Workers are provided information on sources of noise in the workplace and with information on how to protect themselves from the noise. That information is not often applied to leisure activities. For some reason we tend to feel that once we leave the workplace, we are not likely to be exposed to noise levels that can cause hearing loss or perhaps we just don’t feel the pressure to wear hearing protection outside of work.

So, how do we know whether that the level of noise is high enough to cause hearing loss? How do we know we have hearing loss?

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MANAGING CHANGE – EXPECT RESISTANCE
By Gary Pennington, CRSP, CHSC

Unless you have been sleeping for the last two or three months, you will likely realize that significant changes are happening in our economy. Some companies have closed; some have had to lay off workers; some are just hanging on; some are re-structuring; some are merging; some are buying other organizations and some are actually increasing their business. No matter where your business is at this particular time, change is happening “big time”.

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SMART GOALS
By Gary Pennington, CRSP, CHSC

When I am teaching ISO-type courses and I am talking about setting goals and targets, I like to use the acronym of SMART. Some of you have seen this in the past and are probably already using it. Actually, I use SMAAART. For those who have never seen this, here it is:

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