Sonia’s role at Signal is to provide safety management consultative services, serve as coach/mentor for safety and operations leaders on improving organizational safety culture, designs and delivers training, and creates safety management and compliance resources/tools. Additionally, for underwriting purposes and/or member requests, she conducts comprehensive risk control surveys or audits, including OHS compliance with recommendations for prospective and existing members.
Sonia is a Senior Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) and Risk Control professional with 20+ years’ experience in several countries and industries, with the last seven years in the Insurance sector. She has a degree in Industrial Engineering, is bilingual (Spanish), holds an Associate Safety Professionals (ASP) certification from the BCSP, and an Executive Program in Safety Management Certificate from ASSP. Sonia is also a Certified Lead Auditor of ISO 45001:2018 OHSMS, and is an OSHA authorized outreach trainer for general, maritime, and construction industries.
Versatile and passionate about leading continuous improvement of OH&S Management Systems, influencing and empowering business leaders, using data analytics and technology applications in the OH&S and sustainability.
She primarily supports members of the South Eastern Region of the US (FL, GA, SC, NC, PR, and VI) and other Regions as needed and participated in National Safety Committees. She is based out of Miami, FL.