Background
TJ Lyons writes on construction
safety for IRMI.com.
Mr. Lyons is a safety professional working for DPR Construction. He supports
field teams and operations in the United States from Malta, New York.
Board certified as an Occupational Health and Safety Technologist and
Certified Safety Professional, he is proud to have taken some of these skills
to his local community. A past assistant chief, New York adjutant fire
instructor (hazardous materials), emergency medical technician, and still a
volunteer firefighter, he sees the need to bring safety from the field to the
home as often as possible.
In 2018, Mr. Lyons was honored with the IRMI Words of Wisdom (WOW)
Award. The WOW Award recognizes a speaker who has made an outstanding
contribution to the IRMI Construction Risk
Conference as well as demonstrating exceptional presentation skills and
freely sharing practical tips and strategies.
In 2001, Mr. Lyons was awarded the IRMI Gary E. Bird
Horizon Award for his efforts in implementing the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration Voluntary Protection Program on the first construction
project in the state of New York. He has also presented at the IRMI Construction Risk
Conference.
Mr. Lyons was a past chapter writer for the American Society of Testing of
Materials and for the recent American Society of Safety
Engineers’ Construction Safety Management and Engineering, vol. 1 and
vol. 2. He is the past president of the Hudson River Valley Chapter of the
American Society of Safety Engineers. His safety passion is focused on working
with people and the idea of preventing incidents through the smarter design of
the structure being built and the way the building is built. Rather than
install roof anchors on a flat roof and hope everyone will remember to attach
their fall protection, build common parapets around the roof to eliminate the
fall itself, implementing simple steps that he calls "design
intervention."