RANDY BEAVER is the Director of Environmental Health and Safety for the College of Charleston. Prior to accepting this position at the College he was a Senior Loss Control Representative for Nationwide Agribusiness where he authored a Disaster Planning and Business Continuity manual for clients. He has owned his own Occupational Safety and Health consulting firm serving over 200 companies in the Midwest. A former Indiana certified fireman and paramedic, he holds a Law Enforcement- Associate in Science degree, an Organizational Leadership- Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Agricultural and Biological Engineering from Purdue University (his thesis on confined spaces and deaths in the pork and dairy industries is the most complete analysis to date). His thesis-based article was the cover story in the Journal of Agromedicine , Volume 12, Number 2, 2007.

He has served as an invited instructor in Purdue University’s Homeland Security Institute and other Purdue University safety and health courses. He has developed and taught occupational health and safety courses as an adjunct instructor for the statewide-Indiana Vocational Technical College.

As a part of his consulting practice, Randy has taught safety courses to more than 10,000 employees in a variety of general industry, agribusiness, academic, and construction settings over the last fourteen years. His primary areas of expertise include occupational health and safety services and program management, ergonomics, OSHA Compliance, Workman’s Compensation program management, agricultural safety, and disaster preparedness and business continuity.

He has presented at local, state, regional and national conferences as an invited speaker for ergonomics, occupational health and safety management, and disaster/crisis preparedness topics.