Mrs. Nelson is certified as an associate safety and health manager via the Institute for Safety and Health Management
BELLEVUE, WA, August 17, 2022 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Katy E. Nelson has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Drawing on over a decade of expertise, Mrs. Nelson specializes in laboratory safety, industrial hygiene, hazard communications and noise sampling. Prior to embarking on her professional journey, she pursued an education at Texas State University, where she obtained a bachelor's degree in biology, with a minor in chemistry, in 2009. She continued her academic efforts at the University of Houston in Clear Lake, earning a Master of Science in occupational safety and health in 2019. As a commitment to her field, Mrs. Nelson is certified as an associate safety and health manager via the Institute for Safety and Health Management, and has been active as a member with the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
Mrs. Nelson began her career as a laboratory technician at bp in Texas City from 2009 to 2013. When Marathon bought the refinery in 2013, Mrs. Nelson briefly functioned as a learning and development consultant. In 2014, she returned to the laboratory as a lab technician until 2015. At the end of 2015, she worked as a research and development laboratory technician at Shell Oil Company until 2017. While working full time at Bureau Veritas as a laboratory analyst Katy went to grad school at night. In 2019, Mrs. Nelson achieved her goal of attaining a job in the health and safety field as an industrial hygiene consulting specialist for BSI EHS Services and Solutions, where she garnered expertise in various fields of health and safety. Much of her corporate safety experience comes from her time as an EHS delivery technician at Kelly Services on behalf of the Dow Chemical Company.
Since, 2021, Mrs. Nelson has found much success as an occupational health and safety program coordinator at SGS North America. In this capacity, she is responsible for auditing laboratory processes, team meetings, implementing new programs, policies, and procedures, assisting in labeling, and properly storing chemicals, risk assessments, industrial hygiene sampling including noise monitoring and laser safety, to name only a few of her duties.
Long dedicated to civic advocacy, Mrs. Nelson has contributed her time and services to the Houston Delta Gamma Foundation and as a STEM volunteer for schools. She attributes much of her success to her willingness to help workers perform their job tasks safely to her experience of being a worker in her previous career. Among her professional accomplishments, Mrs. Nelson is gratified to have changed her specialty from the oil and gas industry to the technology industry, thereby proudly serving by her motto: "there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
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