David Tibbetts is a Certified Safety Professional and Chief Safety Officer at Highwire. David’s focus is on continued product development, client success, and customer support with the goal of helping Highwire clients elevate their contracting partners by identifying, managing, and mitigating risk throughout the lifecycle of a project.
Prior to joining Highwire, David served as the Manager of Construction Safety in Harvard University’s Environmental Health & Safety Department. David was responsible for managing Harvard’s Construction Safety Program, which included maintaining Harvard’s Construction EH&S Standard, overseeing a comprehensive substance abuse prevention program and monitoring effective use of Highwire’s contractor safety assessment program. In this role, David focused on helping project teams at the University manage risk across Harvard’s campuses on dozens of projects involving hundreds of contractors each year.
Improvements will require a paradigm shift towards a more nuanced, data-driven strategy that strives to identify and fix the root causes of both accidents and observed exposures.
