David Pangaro built Blue Ridge Operations Group after a career leading the environments most safety consultants only visit — warehouses, fleets, recycling plants, and emergency scenes.
EHS Director · Operations & Facilities Leader · Safety Executive
David has spent his career on the operations side of the table — the one being audited, budgeted, and held accountable for results.
He has run multi-site operations with union and non-union workforces, standardized safety programs across U.S. and Canadian facilities, supervised field safety on major industrial projects nationwide, and — for the better part of a decade — owned safety, facilities, maintenance, and capital planning for a 500,000 sq. ft. food distribution operation.
Along the way: a 78% reduction in accident frequency, a 92.6% reduction in workers' compensation costs, seven OSHA inspections navigated from the operator's side, roughly $19.2M in capital projects delivered, and a facilities team that retained about 98% of its people year over year.
Safety, facilities, maintenance, and capital planning for a 500,000 sq. ft. food distribution operation with a 25-person team, 400 employees trained annually, and multi-site support across three recycling locations.
Emergency response coordination, pre-incident planning, training, and interagency preparedness across fire, EMS, law enforcement, and municipal partners.
On-site safety leadership for major industrial projects, outages, and high-risk operations nationwide — field supervision, workforce training, hazard controls, and confined-space rescue support.
Multi-site operations: production, maintenance, transportation, staffing, budgets, and Class A transportation across union and non-union workforces. As Safety Manager – North America (2010–2014), standardized EHS programs across U.S. and Canadian facilities and led the company to its lowest Accident Frequency Rate in history.
25+ years of fire and emergency services: incident command, fire and rescue operations, hazardous materials, training, budgeting, and departmental administration — including three years leading the department as Chief.
Every corrective action is weighed against real budgets, staffing constraints, and production pressure — because David has had to fund and execute these fixes himself.
Forklift operators, dock crews, and maintenance techs talk differently to someone who has run their world. That candor is where the real hazards surface.
Incident command experience means accident scenes, OSHA visits, and emergencies get handled with structure, not panic.
You work with the principal directly — the person who scoped the engagement is the person standing in your facility.
A conversation costs nothing — and usually surfaces at least one risk you didn't know you had.