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Green & Safe, LLC 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 Hale
tinahale@greenandsafe.us
Chief Manager and Manager of Marketing

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 Hale
coryhale@greenandsafe.us
General Manager

Cory has 25 years of 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, DOT and MSHA 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 authorized 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 Parker
travisp@greenandsafe.us
HSE Compliance Supervisor

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 and has worked since as an outsourced safety professional for contractors and manufacturers throughout the mid-south.  His responsibilities include policy and procedure development, employee training, worksite audits and inspections, one-on-one coaching related to safe work practices, incident investigations and assistance with 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 2012 and now uses to teach the OSHA 30-hour and 10-hour courses in construction safety.

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davidn@greenandsafe.us
HSE Compliance Supervisor

Dave is an industrial maintenance specialist with extensive experience in electrical safety.  He has spent the past several years in the electrical maintenance department of a northeast Arkansas printing operation, which was preceded by a 21-year career in the US Air Force where he served as a Senior Master Sergeant in nuclear weapons maintenance.  He has held leadership roles in numerous positions, with responsibilities that included quality and safety inspections and ensuring that all maintenance work coincided efficiently with tight production schedules.  While in the military, he earned his Associates Degree from the US Air Force Community College and was a member of the Nuclear Emergency Search Team.  As an Electrical Maintenance Group Leader, he trained in and implemented safe work practices related to arc blast and flash, hazardous materials, machine guarding, lock-out/tag-out, aerial and boom lifts, ergonomics, hand safety, hearing conservation, fire prevention and protection, personal protective equipment, and emergency action procedures.  In 2012, Dave joined Green & Safe as a HSE Compliance Supervisor, where he serves as an outsourced safety professional for contractors and manufacturers throughout Northeast Arkansas and the mid-south.  He is an OSHA Outreach trainer for the 10-hour and 30-hour General Industry courses.


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troyr@greenandsafe.us
HSE Compliance Supervisor

Troy earned his bachelor’s degree through MTSU’s Concrete Industry Management program, where he was a recipient of the National Science Foundation Scholarship, completed internships in quality control, and minored in business administration.  Upon graduation, Troy began a career in the ready mix industry and was quickly promoted into management.  Over the course of seven years, he served first as plant manager, then as an area manager, where he oversaw production for multiple high-rise construction projects, as well as a major metropolitan airport.  His responsibilities included workplace safety training and worksite safety audits, driver safety procedures and environmental compliance, including storm water pollution prevention permits.  He has extensive experience in OSHA’s General Industry standards, the DOT’s FMCSA standards, and also with meeting various environmental standards, which helped his plants avoid any federal or state violation notices while earning certification in the National Ready Mix Concrete Association’s Green Star Program.  In 2013, Troy transitioned into full time HSE compliance, joining Green & Safe as a HSE Compliance Supervisor.  He has completed the OSHA 30-Hour in construction safety, American Red Cross training in first aid and CPR, and is currently serving contractors, manufacturers and other operations throughout middle Tennessee.

Bill Ferguson

Site-Safety Supervisor


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 supervisor on short-term industrial projects. 

Margaret Ziegenhorn
margaretz@greenandsafe.us
Personnel Coordinator and Workplace Fitness Instructor

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.  Additionally, she has earned a personal trainer certification from the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and conducts one-on-one posture and stretch/flex coaching with workers to help reduce their exposure to workplace strains and sprains.

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P.O. Box 772039, Memphis, TN 38177-2039 / 901-313-8571 / 800-313-4054 / 800-313-4055 fax