Mr. Collins answer to question: What were your duties and responsibilities during your career in the energy and utility industries?
Hi Tony, Thank you for asking. My experience in the energy and utility
industries were on the human resources side of the business. In the 12
years that I consulted with Pacific Gas & Electric, I coordinated
fitness-for-duty evaluations, evaluated employees with substance abuse
and mental health issues that might compromise safe work performance,
consulted with supervisors, managers and human resource advisors about
employees, conducted vendor audits, performed cost/benefit analyses,
consulted with safety and security personnel as well as outside experts
on threats of violence, provided on-site training on workplace stress,
drug and alcohol issues and the employee assistance program for
supervisors, managers and employees and consulted with the manager of
the employee assistance program on numerous policy issues. In the twelve
years that I worked for Chevron Corporation, I began as an employee
assistance program advisor, working on-site at the El Segundo refinery
and working with refinery workers, truck drivers, oil field workers,
welders, boiler makers, research scientists and various technicians. I
evaluated employees who presented themselves for assistance with
substance abuse, mental health or family problems, as well as employees
referred by management because of declining work performance. The work
also entailed consultation with supervisors, managers and human resource
professionals. After four years, I was promoted to manager and
supervised a staff of nine full-time and seven part-time professionals
providing services to an international employee population of 30,000+
employees. As manager, I was involved with numerous committees to
establish policy on drug and alcohol issues, compliance with the
Americans with Disabilities Act, workplace stress, drug testing,
work/life issues and other significant issues of the day and I also
helped select and evaluate various vendors. My work with impaired
executives was formally recognized by the Vice Chairman of the
corporation. I served on the Workplace Health, Safety & Security
Committee for the Society for Human Resource Management and have a
chapter on workplace drug testing in the Employee Assistance Handbook,
published by Wiley. And I have a question for you: What is your
experience in the energy and utility industries?
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He has not, as yet, responded to my courtesy request for OK to post this, but, since it is in the public section of his Facebook page, I assume it is public.
In reading his response, it appears that his experience in the industry was related to mental health and substance abuse issues, not operational aspects. I realize that councilors provide an important service to the employees they work with and increase the safety of the workplace, efficiency and staff well being, but this is not the same as having operational duties and responsibilities for the delivery of the products and services offered by the energy and utility industry.
Tony
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