Contributors

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Joe Allen

Joe Allen is the Owner of Allen Safety LLC, bringing over 30 years of expertise in safety managemen and process improvement. Joe leveraged his hands-on experience as a Navy Corpsman, HAZMAT specialist, and EMT to start his career in safety.  With a Bachelor’s degree in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering from Oklahoma State University and certifications in hazardous materials management (CHMM) and ammonia refrigeration, Joe specializes in safety auditing, training, OSHA citation mitigation/abatement, as well as confined space and emergency preparedness, becoming a trusted partner for over 500 facilities world-wide.  Joe additionally offers clients regulatory compliance and citation mitigation support, training, safety, sanitation, PSM compliance, process improvement, and new acquisition audits and evaluations, procedure creation, and incident management during and after catastrophic events and severe or fatal injuries.

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Jen Allen

Jen Allen is the Vice President of Operations and Engineering at Allen Safety and is a graduate of the University of Missouri.  With Jen’s career in safety staring in 2008, Jen leverages her extensive expertise in safety to provide clients with safety, sanitation, and PSM auditing, training, program and procedure creation/review, OSHA citation mitigation/abatement, management of complex catastrophic events and injuries (during and after), as well as confined space and emergency preparedness solutions.  As a trained ammonia refrigeration operator, Jen is Allen Safety's internal technical expert on refrigeration, and also serves on the IIAR Safety Committee, has been a guest speaker at the IIAR conference, published in their Condenser Magazine, and instrumental in the update of IIAR recommendations and guidelines published by the organization.   Jen has additionally been featured in leading meat production publications for her insights on sanitation safety.