Don Wilson

OSHA Authorized Construction Safety Trainer

(1)   Don  retired from Travelers Insurance Co. in January of 2003, after 30 years with the company.  For the past 27 of those years, he worked as a Construction & Civil Engineering and Marine  Specialist.  He worked in a supervisory position in the Home Office and was also assigned to a field territory. 

(2)   In 1995, Don published an OSHA 10-Hour training program, which included visual aids, props and workbooks used to train Travelers clients.  

(3)   Initially, Don presented the OSHA 10-Hour training as train-the-trainer for Travelers engineers.  Then he presented sessions for clients of Travelers, such as for an owner, the Pensacola News Journal.  They wanted certain employees to collectively monitor safety of contractors working on their premises.  An example of sessions for a contractor included 10-Hour and 30-Hour training put on for Marshall Contractors of RI, as they worked building the IBM Clean Room manufacturing facility at Manassas, VA.  Another example was a session for a building construction contractor in upstate New York. 

(4)   Don has enjoyed considerable construction related teaching experience, including, windstorm preparedness seminars in Florida and a seminar for the County Commissioners of Pennsylvania about avoiding wind damage to their courthouses.    

(5)   To wear additional hats, Travelers appointed Don as the Disaster Response Coordinator for engineering assistance to the Claim Dept.,  following the 1989 San Francisco earthquake.  He continued this position following Hurricane Andrew, where in Florida he worked  as a Project Manager to supervise a team of engineers assessing building damage for the Travelers Claim Dept.  

(6)   Previous work experience included being a highway and bridge construction technician in WV and later as an intern for the State of CT, doing bridge & highway design work and on-site bridge inspection.  This was followed by Computer System Engineering work for IBM and then the 30 Years at Travelers.

(7)   Mr. Wilson received his bachelors degree in Building Construction Engineering from Hampton University.  Further study was in structural engineering at the University of Hartford, and then he entered the graduate program in Civil Engineering at the University of CT.

(8) Committee experience included: 

      ~ Chairman, Construction Safety Committee, State of

          Massachusetts Workers' Compensation Commission.

        ~ Construction Safety Committee Member – AISG 

          of the American Insurance Association.

         ~ Committee Member ANSI A10.4 – Personnel Hoists

         ~ Committee Member ANSI A10.5 – Material Hoists

       ~ Committee Member ANSI A10.13 – Steel Erection

       ~ Construction Safety Committee Member of the

         National Safety  Council

(9) Currently a member of the

      American Society of Civil Engineers.

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