Ross Boeker

Manager of Safety Services @Vulcan Materials Company

Birmingham, AL, US

Functional lead for the safety discipline in the corporate Safety, Health, & Environmental Department. Vulcan Materials Company is the nation’s largest producer of construction aggregates and a major producer of aggregates-based construction materials, including hot-mix asphalt and ready-mixed concrete. Operations include surface and underground mines, hot-mix asphalt and ready-mix concrete production, and road construction across 9 Divisions in North America.• Create communication platforms for the sharing of safety metrics, best practices, lessons learned, and regulatory affairs across the company.• Develop mechanisms, tools, and communication platforms to enhance organizational capacity and resilience.• Cross-functional team leadership for a variety of projects.• Along with my IH/OH counterpart, create the protocol, questions, and format for corporate safety and health audits.• Provide support to divisions with accident investigation, annual refresher training, and physical SHE inspections.• Work with operating divisions to continually improve and administer Vulcan Materials Company’s Fatality Prevention Program elements, including educational materials, resources and reference tools, field hazard assessment tools, and identification of key metrics.• Facilitate incident investigation (cause and influence analysis) review meetings.

Truman State University

Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial Science

Augustana College

Mathematics

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Master of Engineering - MEng, Advanced Safety Engineering and Management