Tim Carter

Mr. Carter has worked as a safety, health, and environmental professional since 1978. He began his career in the mining industry and later became involved in heavy construction and expansion projects associated with mining, petroleum refining, chemical processing, manufacturing, and food processing. He has also provided direct support in the areas of facility operations and maintenance services.

Since October 2005, Mr. Carter has been the vice president responsible for the global Health, Safety, Security and Environmental (HSSE) program for the world’s largest commercial real estate services and facility management company, CB Richard Ellis, Inc. (CBRE). He is based in Anaheim, California.

Prior to joining CBRE, Mr. Carter was with Fluor Corporation for 20 years and was directly involved with numerous field construction projects globally and held various job responsibilities within Fluor’s corporate safety and health organization.

From September 2003 through September 2005 Mr. Carter served as Fluor’s vice president of Safety and Health at one of the nation’s largest and most complex environmental restoration projects, the cleanup of the 560-square-mile Hanford site in eastern Washington state, one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Cold War nuclear weapons production facilities. There Mr. Carter was responsible for a large organization that supported occupational safety and health, radiation protection, emergency preparedness, fire protection, and nuclear safeguards and security. During that time, Mr. Carter and his team were able to facilitate significant improvements in the overall safety process making Fluor’s performance at Hanford among the very best within the DOE complex nationwide.

Mr. Carter’s global experience in construction, mining, and facility operations and maintenance has taken him to a variety of countries and regions throughout North, South, and Central America, Europe and the United Kingdom, West and South Africa, Kazakhstan, and Indonesia.

Mr. Carter has been associated with IRMI as one of its regular Conference speakers since 1997.

Mr. Carter is a member of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He has worked as a safety task force member with the Construction Industry Institute (CII), and served as first vice chair of the Integrated Safety Management working group for the U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG).