Team

Joe Henricks is the founder of Professional Safety & Management and the lead instructor for Granite Safety. He personally holds the OSHA 500 Authorized Trainer credential, is BCSP-credentialed (ASP and CHST), an ASSP member, and a CICTI instructor for ICRA-aligned healthcare construction infection control.

Joe is on a job site this week. He directly supervises safety on the Athletics' new Las Vegas Stadium — a $2 billion, 33,000-seat domed ballpark on the Strip targeting a 2028 MLB opening, built by the Mortenson-McCarthy joint venture (ESPN, December 2025). He also runs an ongoing safety program at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California — a 70,240-seat venue that hosted Super Bowl LVI and is slated to co-host the 2028 Olympic Opening Ceremony with the LA Memorial Coliseum, the first dual-venue Opening Ceremony in modern Games history (SoFi Stadium / LA28, 2025).

The healthcare side of the practice is ICRA. Joe's CICTI authorization lets him deliver the Carpenters International Construction Training Institute curriculum used to train construction crews working in active healthcare environments — containment, negative-pressure barriers, HEPA filtration, traffic control, and the protocols that keep immunocompromised patients safe during active construction. ICRA 2.0 was released by ASHE in 2020 as a comprehensive update to the original framework (ASHE, 2020); over 570 U.S. healthcare locations require ICRA-certified workers on construction and renovation projects today.

The 2025 ASSP Safety Professional of the Year recognition sits on top of fifteen-plus years of construction-safety leadership. Joe writes and reviews the Granite Safety curriculum the way he runs a job site — present-tense, specific, anti-jargon. The training carries the same discipline as the daily pre-task plan he runs at the gate.

Career highlights

• Founder, Professional Safety & Management
• Lead Instructor and Founder, Granite Safety
• Site safety supervision, Athletics' Las Vegas Stadium ($2B, Mortenson-McCarthy JV, 2028 MLB opening)
• Site safety program, SoFi Stadium (Inglewood, CA — 70,240 capacity, $5B build)
• CICTI Instructor — ICRA 2.0 healthcare construction infection control
• OSHA 500 Authorized Trainer (Construction Outreach) — held personally by Joe
• BCSP credentials: ASP, CHST
• 2025 ASSP Safety Professional of the Year
• ASSP member

Verify the credentials

• BCSP Credential Directory — verify ASP and CHST.
• OSHA Outreach Trainer Search — verify OSHA 500 authorization.
• CICTI / Carpenters International ICRA program — instructor authorization context.
• ASSP — American Society of Safety Professionals — member directory.

2025 ASSP Safety Professional of the Year recognition confirmed by Granite Safety on 2026-05-10. The ASSP awards page may not yet reflect the recognition online.

Fred Wilton is the co-founder of Granite Safety and a Board of Certified Safety Professionals Certified Safety Professional — BCSP credential #21405. The CSP is the gold standard for occupational safety in the United States; it requires a qualifying degree, professional safety experience, a separate prerequisite credential, and passing a board examination (BCSP, 2026). Fred also holds the LEED AP credential through the U.S. Green Building Council.

Fred earned a B.S. in Safety Science from Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and has spent the 25-plus years since inside the construction-safety practice. He started in OSHA inspection representation at Miller Safety Consulting in Denver — well over 100 inspections across audits, accident investigations, and training. From 2005 to 2011 he ran safety at Haselden Construction in Colorado, beginning as a site safety engineer on a 30-story Denver remodel and rising to Safety Manager across 15 concurrent projects in three states.

From 2011 to 2015 Fred was at Clark Construction. He served as the lead Site Safety and Health Officer on the $480 million Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital — the kind of mission-critical federal healthcare project where a containment failure has consequences that go beyond the schedule. Within six months he was promoted to Western Regional Safety Director, supervising 14 safety professionals across California, Washington, and Nevada while Clark was running roughly $1.2 billion a year of West Coast construction. He went to FDR Safety as their Western U.S. operations lead in 2015 and founded Synergy Safety Solutions in 2017.

Fred is a regular instructor for the OSHA Training Institute Education Center at Cal State Dominguez Hills. He has appeared in over fifteen expert-witness matters in the past three years involving depositions, opinion letters, testimony, and Cal/OSHA hearings. The Granite Safety curriculum is reviewed against his audit and expert-witness experience — the goal is content a regulator could read on the stand without needing a translator.

Career highlights

• Co-Founder and Senior Advisor, Granite Safety
• Founder and President, Synergy Safety Solutions, LLC (2017–present)
• Western Regional Safety Director, Clark Construction (oversaw 14 safety professionals across CA / WA / NV at ~$1.2B/year of West Coast work)
• Lead Site Safety and Health Officer, Camp Pendleton Naval Hospital ($480M federal healthcare project)
• Western U.S. Operations, FDR Safety, LLC
• Safety Manager, Haselden Construction (15 concurrent projects, 3 states)
• OSHA inspection representation, Miller Safety Consulting (100+ inspections)
• BCSP Certified Safety Professional (#21405), LEED AP
• B.S. Safety Science, Indiana University of Pennsylvania (1997)
• Cal/OSHA expert witness experience
• Regular instructor, OSHA Training Institute Education Center at Cal State Dominguez Hills

Verify the credentials

• BCSP Credential Directory — verify CSP #21405.
• BCSP — Certified Safety Professional — credential program detail.
• Synergy Safety Solutions — Fred's consultancy and full bio.