ROCHESTER, N.Y., January 24, 2018 – LeChase Construction Services, LLC is pleased to announce the promotion of Jerrod Garrett to director of Corporate Environmental, Health and Safety (EH&S) for the company.
In this role, Garrett has overall responsibility for the company’s safety program, which continues to target a goal of zero incidents among employees, subcontractors and visitors to LeChase jobsites and offices. Specifically, he will lead efforts around policy, training, tracking and reporting and will manage a team of regional safety managers across company operations.
Garrett has 27 years of experience in the field of industrial health and safety, joining LeChase in 2012 as a regional safety manager supporting the company’s western New York operations. Prior to that, he spent ten years in the power/energy industry. This included an assignment as corporate safety director for engineering and construction at Sunoco, where he had EH&S responsibility for $1.6 billion of capital projects at several refineries.
Garrett studied occupational health and safety at Louisiana State University. In 2016, he earned accreditation from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals as a Certified Health and Safety Technician.
He currently lives in Webster, N.Y.
