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William A. Blum,
CSM, EHSM, President/CEO
International Training & Safety LLC
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Mr. Blum holds a Vocational
Education Teaching Credential in Construction Equipment Operation
for the State of California (Document #990089163). He is
a member of the National Association of Safety Professionals and
holds credentials for Certified Safety Manager, Environmental Health
and Safety Management Specialist, Safety Planning Specialist, and
Safety Training Specialist.
Background
Mr. Blum began his career as a heavy
equipment operator with the City of Burbank in 1963. He worked in
the landfill for seven years and gained valuable experience in the
operation of large dozers, motor graders and scrapers while
performing pioneer work, dressing and cutting slopes, compacting and
pushing trash and cutting and maintaining haul roads. In 1969, Mr.
Blum went to work for the City of Los Angeles Department of Water &
Power as a heavy equipment operator and was assigned to the Castaic
Power Plant Project. During his four-year tenure with the DWP at
Castaic, Mr. Blum operated a LeBerr Tower Crane, 125/375 ton Bridge
Crane, and an International
TD25Dozer (equivalent to a Cat D9 Dozer), cutting penstocks and
constructing pioneered roadways for transmission lines. In August
1973, he went to work for the City of Los Angeles Harbor Department
as an Equipment Operator and Power Shovel Operator. As an Equipment
Operator, Mr. Blum operated dozers, graders, track type loaders,
backhoes, skip loaders and compactors. In November 1983, he became a
Power Shovel Operator and continued until leaving the Harbor
Department in 1989.
During his 16 year stay at the Harbor
Department, Mr. Blum also worked out of the Local 12 Union Hall as a
heavy equipment operator. He ran heavy equipment, including the Cat
D9 dozer, Cat 836 compactor, Cat 657 and Cat 637 scrapers and the
TS14 scraper. Mr. Blum also operated backhoes, rollers, barge
cranes, container cranes and pendant cranes. He returned to the City
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September of 1989 as
an instructor at the Ascot Training Center for DWP’s Fleet Training
Section. For the next 10 years, Mr. Blum provided 180 hours of Heavy
Equipment Training to more than 5,000 employees for the City of Los Angeles
and DWP. The training
included backhoes, pendant cranes, overhead cranes,
hydro-cranes, lattice boom cranes, and various dozers and loaders. Mr. Blum’s responsibilities
emcompassed
developing the Heavy Equipment Training curriculum, which included
classroom and “hands-on” instruction for entry level to experienced
heavy equipment operators. Mr. Blum also developed and taught
courses on hydro cranes, backhoes, rubber-tired loaders, rollers,
gantry cranes, pendant cranes, cab operated overhead cranes,
forklifts and aerial man-lifts.
Mr. Blum was
responsible for transforming the Ascot Training Center into a first
rate educational establishment and training facility for heavy
equipment and crane operators, and developed all of the modern
training techniques and manuals for crane and heavy equipment
operations for the DWP. Mr. Blum was also instrumental in obtaining
other city agency clientele (Los Angeles World Airports, Harbor
Department, Bureau of Sanitation, Recreation and Parks, and the Los
Angeles Zoo) by training their employees at the Ascot Training
Center. At the time of his retirement in July of 1998, Mr. Blum held
the position of Supervisor of Heavy Equipment and Crane Training at
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