MARCO ANTONIO BENJAMIN VERGARA SANTANA

• Ensuring full compliance with legal, regulatory, and corporate EHS requirements across both sites.
• Fostering a safety-first culture through lean principles, proactive risk management, and high employee engagement.
• Coordinating emergency response strategies to minimize damage and prevent injuries.
• Managing safety committees and driving cross-functional collaboration for injury prevention.
• Partnering with senior management to set and achieve ambitious safety and environmental goals.
• Maintaining a 0.00 Total Incident Rate (TIR) and achieving over 586 consecutive days without recordable incidents.

• Led the Safety, Hygiene, and Environment department for foreign investment companies, successfully managing the start-up of four new plants within a six-month period.
• Achieved a 0.00 Total Incident Rate (TIR) during all construction and commissioning phases, ensuring safe operations from day one.
• Ensured full compliance with local and international EHS regulations, implementing sustainable and responsible workplace practices from project inception.

• Provided training and advisory services to employees and management teams in 22 companies across multiple industrial sectors, ensuring full compliance with EHS regulations.
• Developed and implemented customized industrial safety programs aligned with local and international standards.
• Conducted regulatory compliance assessments and facilitated governmental processes with the Ministry of Labor and Civil Protection, avoiding high penalties.
• Reduced client companies’ accident rates through targeted training, hazard identification, and preventive measures.
• Minimized financial losses by significantly lowering the costs of fines and sanctions through proactive compliance strategies.

• Led the start-up of a Chinese foreign-investment plant in Apodaca, dedicated to manufacturing solar inverters.
• Completed all regulatory procedures and permits for building conditioning, water and electricity infrastructure, and discharge authorizations in just 2 months, reducing the estimated timeline by over 65% (from 6 months to 2).
• Designed and implemented the EHS management system for safe operations, ensuring 100% compliance with Mexican and corporate safety standards prior to production launch.
• Accelerated project readiness, enabling the facility to start operations 4 months ahead of schedule, optimizing costs and resource allocation.

• Led a challenging EHS restructuring project at Copamex, where no unified EHS managerial position existed — safety, environment, and health responsibilities were fragmented across departments, with health oversight left to HR.
• Designed and implemented a new integrated EHS leadership role, consolidating all responsibilities under a single management structure.
• Completed the full integration process in 3 months, achieving results 50% faster than the original 6-month target.
• Improved cross-departmental communication and collaboration, enabling smoother operational alignment and more efficient decision-making.
• Transitioned the newly created role to the current EHS Manager, ensuring operational continuity and long-term functionality.

• Ensured regulatory compliance and supported cultural transformation within a stamping company with historically high accident rates.
• Focused on implementing safe work policies, rules, and procedures, particularly in the operation of high-risk presses and tools.
• Collaborated with supervisors and operators to improve adherence to safety standards and operational discipline.
• Contributed to achieving a favorable result in a Labor Secretariat audit by ensuring compliance with 12 standards previously identified as non-conformities.
• Maintained ongoing compliance with safety regulations during the period, laying the groundwork for future EHS improvements.

• Delivered over 50 high-impact training sessions and regulatory compliance consulting projects to major companies across multiple regions of Mexico.
• Provided guidance on implementing safety programs aligned with NOM-STPS regulations and international standards, benefiting more than 2,000 employees.
• Learned and applied American OSHA regulations through specialized mentoring supported by the University of Texas at Arlington.
• Strengthened professional skills by collaborating with experienced mentors and multidisciplinary teams, achieving a 100% client satisfaction rate in delivered programs.

As the founder and consultant of EHS Global, I have provided specialized EHS training and advisory services during different stages of my career, supporting companies across multiple industrial sectors. My work includes:

• Delivering over 80 training sessions to employees and management teams, ensuring compliance with EHS regulations.
• Developing and implementing customized industrial safety programs aligned with local and international standards.
• Conducting regulatory compliance assessments and facilitating governmental processes with the Ministry of Labor and Civil Protection to prevent high penalties.
• Reducing accident rates for client companies through targeted training, hazard identification, and preventive measures.
• Minimizing financial losses by significantly lowering fines and sanctions through proactive compliance strategies.

• Managed EHS for the Mondelēz project in Salinas Victoria during three simultaneous critical phases: construction, equipment installation, and partial operational startup of production lines.
• Oversaw 3,500 workers per shift, leading a multidisciplinary EHS team of 35 safety supervisors and 6 auditors.
• Coordinated multiple contractors performing high-risk activities, including heavy lifting, confined space entry, hot work, and work at heights, across different plant areas.
• Implemented robust safety policies and comprehensive risk analysis processes, ensuring full compliance with local and corporate standards.
• Significantly reduced incident potential, enabling a safe and on-time transition from construction to full-scale production.
• Strengthened expertise in multi-phase project management, contractor safety oversight, and high-risk work coordination.

• Served as EHS Coordinator while also managing human resources, environmental management, and logistics in the energy services sector.
• Oversaw EHS compliance for projects in multiple locations across Mexico, ensuring adherence to local and corporate standards.
• Achieved 7 years with zero lost-time accidents and no customer-imposed penalties across all service contracts.
• Successfully completed 100% of projects on time with full EHS compliance, earning multiple recognitions as a safe and reliable service provider.
• Led incident prevention programs and contractor safety oversight in high-risk energy operations, maintaining a 0.00 TIR throughout the role.
• Coordinated safety strategies from project initiation to closure, enhancing client trust and operational efficiency.
• Strengthened expertise in multi-site EHS coordination, regulatory compliance, and stakeholder communication.