Thanking Our ACEC/MA Health & Safety Forum Leadership For Ongoing Service To Our Members
ACEC/MA would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the leaders of our Health & Safety (H&S) Forum. From its inception, the ACEC/MA H&S Forum has been an invaluable resource to engineering professionals across the commonwealth and the nation, providing important resources and guidance on construction and workplace safety. Their work has become even more crucial over these past two years, as the world navigated the COVID-19 pandemic. Meeting every two weeks over a span of several months in 2020 and continually meeting monthly since then, ACEC/MA Health & Safety Forum members worked tirelessly to provide resources and information on workplace safety amid a constantly changing information landscape. As we transition now to what, we hope, is an end to the pandemic phase of life with COVID, we would like to sincerely thank ACEC/MA's Health & Safety Forum leaders for their efforts during these unprecedented times and their plans for future Forums for members.
With Gratitude, We Recognize:
David Langlais, Board Liaison and former Co-Chair
David Langlais is the Safety Coordinator at Hoyle Tanner where he draws 
upon 20 years of construction field experience and numerous hours of safety training to assist their Safety Committee with the implementation and employee adherence to site-specific safety requirements. His responsibilities include safety on-boarding of new employees, assisting field staff and project managers with performing job hazard analyses, promoting safety training, and providing project specific safety plans. Outside of safety, David is the Regional Business Manager for Hoyle Tanner’s Massachusetts clients where he engages in building and strengthening working relationships with various municipalities, reviews town and city plans with clients, and plans for future projects.
David’s safety journey began with lifeguarding and progressed to Water Safety Instructor and EMT certification. Setting these interests aside to pursue his civil engineering career, he found safety back in the spotlight in 2014 when he was invited to join, and chair, the Hoyle Tanner Safety Committee. By 2019 was named the Safety Coordinator which serves as a permanent role on the committee. In September 2017 he was invited to join the then year-and-a-half old ACEC/MA Health and Safety Forum and by 2019 he became a co-chair. In 2021 he was nominated to serve as a Director on the ACEC/MA Board of Directors and was elected by membership. He now serves as the board liaison to the forum. As liaison, he strives to ensure that the committee will continue to be a valuable safety resource by providing content and collaboration for member firms. David aspires to formalize his safety responsibilities by applying for certification as a Safety Trained Specialist.
Steve Hawkins, Co-Chair
Steve Hawkins is a Certified Safety Professional and the Director of Safety at GEI Consultants, Inc. Together with GEI’s Safety Team Steve is committed to providing the support necessary to employees, projects and clients to achieve successful and safe projects while maintaining safety as one of GEI’s core business values. Providing the knowledge, information, tools, and equipment so Everyone can Live Safe Everyday is the purpose that motivates Steve each day.
Bringing over 23 years of experience and a diverse background in the occupational health and safety, environmental and emergency response fields, he has the capability to evaluate operations and programs for compliance, identify potential risks, design methods of control, and develop and implement health and safety training and management programs.
In addition to his responsibilities at GEI, Mr. Hawkins has over twenty-six years of experience as a certified firefighter, emergency medical technician, and company fire officer in the State of Connecticut. In this capacity, he is prepared to respond to any type of emergency situation and provide training in all aspects of emergency response in accordance with the National Incident Management System and the Incident Command System.
And We Happily Welcome:
Michael Brown (Mick), Co-Chair
Mick Brown is the Health & Safety Manager for Weston & Sampson. He oversees the company’s health and safety program with work including engineering and design, construction, environmental remediation, wastewater treatment, municipal water treatment and distribution, aquatics, and solar projects. Mick started his career as a geologist/geophysicist in the environmental remediation field and advanced into project and program management. He transitioned into H&S and has managed and developed safety programs for firms in construction, manufacturing, and environmental remediation prior to joining Weston & Sampson. Mick prides himself in having solid field experience and using that real-life experience to improve safety from a field perspective.
Mick’s focus as co-chair of the health and safety forum will be to continue to promote closing the gap between safety management and what happens every day in the field. His goal has always been to make safety “real” for our workers and keep it simple so it works … “work safe today and work safer tomorrow”.
Kimlee Lindgren, Co-Chair
Kim Lindgren is a site safety officer for AECOM on the South Coast Rail project in southeastern Massachusetts. She has 41 years of experience in the safety and health profession. She also has been a curriculum developer and instructor for the OSHA Education Center since 1991. Her expertise is in construction and maritime with previous employment with general contractors, specialty contractors, general industry, insurance companies and trade associations. Kim is also a former compliance officer for Cal/OSHA. She is a Professional Member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP), past president of the San Diego Chapter and 2018 recipient of the Construction Safety Professional of the Year award.
As a co-chair of the safety and health forum, I would like to support and serve as a safety resource to the members of the ACEC/MA. Often times safety is not perceived in a favorable manner…I am a true believer of building safety into productivity to make it work. It is not Safety First, it is Safety Always!
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