G&S is a woman owned and operated business with HSE personnel who have accumulated production and operations experience in the industries they serve.  We are generalists first and specialists second.  We consider all things related to your success to be in our job description.   

Tina earned her BA in Marketing in 1993 and went to work for a multi-line insurance agency, where she gained four years’ experience coordinating the sales and underwriting activities for various risks.  She left the workforce so that she could start a family, which she managed full time even while helping start a risk management and safety consulting proprietorship in 2006.  She resumed her place in the paid workforce in 2009 and began managing much of the company’s administrative and marketing functions.  During that time, the company branded its health, safety and environmental services as Green & Safe.  In 2012, Tina took ownership of Green & Safe and organized it as an independent, woman-owned enterprise with Tina serving as both the chief manager and the manager of marketing.  

Cory has 24 years’ experience in both public and private sector safety and a BS degree in Organizational Management.  He has worked in construction, manufacturing and trucking safety, commercial insurance loss control, and spent several years on the Memphis Police Department where he served as a sergeant in the investigation bureaus.  He has a strong working knowledge of workplace safety, fleet safety, employee screening, substance abuse, theft prevention, fire protection, accident investigations, OSHA and DOT compliance, and general liability protection.  Cory holds the Associate in Risk Management (ARM) designation from the AICPCU/Insurance Institute of America and he is an OSHA outreach trainer for the 10-hour and 30-hour courses in construction safety.  Cory is also a professional member of the American Society of Safety Engineers, and is designated as an Approved Professional Safety Source (APSS) by the AWCC.

Travis began working in the construction trades while still in high school and continued to do so while earning his initial college credits.  He not only gained experience as a welder and then later as a drywall finisher, he completed his apprenticeship, assumed responsibility for worksite safety compliance, and earned certificates in respiratory protection training, scaffold competent person training, first-aid and CPR training, OSHA’s disaster site worker training, and OSHA’s 30-hour course for construction safety.  In 2010, Travis accepted a position as a site-safety supervisor on an industrial construction site, where he accumulated over a thousand hours in comprehensive site-safety experience.  Upon successful completion of that project, Travis was promoted to HSE Compliance Supervisor, where he has spent the past year working as an outsourced safety professional for contractors and manufacturers throughout the mid-south.  His responsibilities include policy and procedure development, employee training, worksite audits, incident investigations and claim management.  During that time, he completed additional courses in Fire Protection, Welding & Cutting Safety, Steel Erection and Recordkeeping, as well as the OSHA 30-hour course for general industry safety and the OSHA 510 course in construction safety regulations.  His professional development qualified him to sit for the OSHA 500 trainer authorization, which he earned in February 2012.

Margaret is a professional educator with sixteen years of experience as a teacher, trainer, and tutor.  She earned her B.S. in Education from the University of Memphis in 1996 along with top status among her piers as a Highly Qualified Educator.  She joined the workforce as a diagnostic test administrator and subsequently managed both curriculum and other teachers.  In the Memphis City Schools, she implemented occupational, physical, speech and vision therapy protocols for special needs students, including children and young adults.  Her tutoring specialty from 2000-2009 was also the learning disabled, which she managed while home-schooling her own children.  Margaret’s professional development coursework has included annual safety and health training related to hazardous chemicals and bloodborne pathogens, body mechanics, and community emergency response.  In 2011, she began working part time for Green & Safe developing a database for subcontractor insurance requirements.  In 2012, she accepted a full time position as personnel coordinator, with responsibilities that include recruiting and screening HSE supervisor and coordinator job candidates, facilitating their training and professional development, and implementing and managing the safety training database for customer employees.

Arthur is an honors graduate from East High School in Memphis and a chemical engineering major in his junior year at Christian Brothers University in Memphis.  He has completed internships at Valero Refinery and Keystone Laboratories, and he continues to serve as a math and science tutor at East and as a counselor for the National Youth Sports Program.    He has developed engineering-related skills in solution preparation, chemical formulations, emulsions, titration, massing, and spectrometry, all of which have served as a solid foundation for his current role as HSE Coordinator for Green & Safe, where he has worked since the summer of 2011.  His responsibilities include workplace chemical inventories and material safety data sheet compilations, confined space air monitoring and entry supervision, excavation soil classification and supervision, energy isolation (LOTO) evaluation, worksite procedure audits, and tool and equipment inspections.  Arthur is scheduled to graduate with his BS in Chemical Engineering in the spring of 2013.

Since being honorably discharged from the U.S. Marine Corps, Bill has been a project manager, an estimator, and master of all construction trades since the 1970’s.  He has built hotels, apartment buildings, schools, hospitals, waste water treatment plants, telecommunication centers, dams and culverts, utility installations, and high-rise office towers.  He also has industrial construction experience.  In addition to the various construction responsibilities, Bill’s roles have included safety supervision and training and his credentials include the OSHA 30-hour in construction safety and first-aid and CPR certification.  Bill serves as a site-safety representative on short-term industrial projects.