Ralph Oliveti is a Board Certified Safety Professional with 27 years of experience in industrial safety, training, and environmental science. He received a B.S. in Secondary Education specializing in Physics, Chemistry and Biological Sciences from Ohio University. Prior to Safex Ralph was employed with Koppers Company, MTM Chemicals, ISP Fine Chemicals and Chemical Waste Management. Ralph has been the Project Manager for a diverse range of projects including hazardous waste remediation, process hazard analysis, process safety management, chemical emergency response, safety training and auditing.
While serving as the Safety Director at Koppers Co., in Follansbee, West Virginia, Ralph was responsible for health and safety activities for barge operations on the Ohio River. Activities at the dock included the barge loading and unloading of hazardous materials Also during that period Ralph provided safety oversight for the demolition of an acid processing facility located along the banks of the Ohio River.
Some of Ralph’s projects include: process safety management team leading and program writing for Ashland Chemical Company, Bear Creek and Hilton Davis Company; process safety management auditing for Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream; process hazard analysis team leading for Brady International; Process Safety Management PHA revalidation for the City of Columbus; Mechanical Integrity program development for a central Ohio manufacturing company; integrated contingency plan development for Capital Resin and Liebert; lockout tagout program and procedure development for Meritor; confined space entry profile and procedure development for several Ohio manufacturing facilities; facility safety inspections for Lucent Technologies and safety audit preparation for GE Lamp, Circleville. Ralph has also provided health and safety support for emergency responders at a number of train derailments involving the release of hazardous chemicals.
Ralph has provided on site safety support and training for several large construction companies in the Columbus, Ohio, area including Atlas Industrial Contractors, The Sherman R. Smoot Company and Hasely Construction Company. He is the lead instructor for the 40-hour initial Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response training, the 24-hour Chemical Emergency Response class, the 8-hour HAZWOPER refresher training and the Hazardous Waste 8-hour Supervisor classes for Safex. He has also conducted Emergency Response Awareness level training for the Ohio Bureau of Worker's Compensation at their training centers around the state and varoius hazardous waste and confined space entry courses at various locations in the United States and Canada for CH2M Hill Engineering. In addition he is a qualified instructor for the 10 and 30 hour OSHA Construction and General Industry courses and has developed and taught several of these classes throughout the U.S as well as in Europe and Asia.
Ralph has served as site safety specialist during a DOE demolition/dismantling project. The buildings being dismantled were contaminated with low level, radioactive material and protocols had to follow ALARA (As Low as Reasonably Achievable) guidelines. Ralph was responsible for over seeing all safety aspects associated with dismantling a low slope roof, disassembling steel skeletal structure 53’ in height using aerial lifts, lifting and removal of the steel structure utilizing cranes and proper rigging, safety and industrial hygiene issues associated with cutting and burning contaminated steel and the demolition of a concrete building. In 2007, Ralph served as the Confined Space Entry Supervisor and Safety Coordinator for a chemical plant construction project in central Ohio. Ralph recently served as the Site Safety Coordinator for a Waste Assessment at the Southerly Waste Water Treatment Plant which involved the installation of specialty scaffolding and the selective demolition of buidling structure to install the scaffold. In late 2007, Ralph developed and presented a course on Root Cause Incident Investigation for plant Safety Coorfinators at First Energy Corporation and assisted in developing a corporate incident investigation program to be used at First Energy facilities.
Ralph is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE). He has conducted numerous presentations at safety conferences throughout the state of Ohio on chemical emergency response, process safety and safety in the construction industry. He has also been a presenter on Process Safety Management at the International Chlorine Dioxide Symposium in 1996 and the American Industrial Hygiene Conference in 1998. Ralph was also a co-presenter of the Professional Development Class, “Integrated Contingency Planning” at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference in 2001. And he presented the program "Demolition of a Building Contaminated with Radioactive Material" at the 2003 American Society of Safety Engineers Conference.
