Resume', etc.

1. Daniel (Dan) W. Krusze
10250 Jamestown Drive, # 1; Anchorage, AK 99507
Cell zor. (907) 903-0596 dkrusze@gci.net www.dksafety.net
Professional Profile:
~ Extensive experience w/ Federal and state plan OSHA regulations, NIOSH, ANSI,
MSHA, and NFPA 70E codes / regulations: Design and implementation of training and
compliance programs to meet VPP and SHARP standards. Field and facility auditing to
determine and improve client organization's inclusion in the above-referenced
programs.
~ Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) training / selection to ensure matching of
equipment to field usage. Collaboration w/ factory representatives in key compliance
areas (fall protection, electrical/chemical/air quality testing equipment, respirators, and
hand/eye safety) in teaching compliance/usage specifics to various work groups in
classroom as well as field environments.
);> Excellent interpersonal and training skills with employees, management, logistics
providers/partners, sub-contractors, etc. giving a wide-ranging variety of construction-
related presentations on technical topics, i.e.:
Alyeska Pipeline Service Company and AHTNA Construction re: utility locates
along the Trans-Alaska Pipeline during excavation and trenching work;
HM-232 site planning for NANA Oilfield Services and Homer Electric Association,
U.S. Corp of Engineers, Chugach Electric, and numerous other organizations;
STG Construction and Alaska Crane Service re: OSHA 10-hour Construction
elective coursework in equipment exclusion zones around utilities/personnel and
PIT/Forklift classroom and on-site operational skills training;
);> HSSE consultation, training, and loss control work with numerous firms and
organizations in Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada with
specialization in commercial construction, excavation, utility infrastructure
ID, commercial fleet transportation, and other heavy industrial applications.

2. Employment Qualifications and Associated Training:
» Formulated and developed numerous employers'/client's Injury and Illness
Prevention Plans (IIPP) in advance of the pending Federal OSHA "12P2 I P3" standard.
» Qualified as an OSHA Outreach, MSHA, and HAZWOPER Training Facilitatorl
Mentor for multiple curriculums in partnership w/ 360 Training and Business and Legal
Resources (BLR); OTI-OSHA Outreach 10 and 30 hour courses, HAZWOPER 8, 24,
and 40 hour courses, with emphasis on regulatory compliance, underground
construction, heavy equipment operations, and fall protection electives.
» Currently studying to attain a Certified Health and Safety Professional (CHSP)
credential, as well as pursuing advanced OSHA coursework in chemical, electrical, and
revised GHS / Hazard Communication updates.
» Completed the NSTC Unescorted North Slope Safety Orientation (Awareness
Level) to ensure facility access on the various North Slope production areas.
» Implemented and conducted numerous company PIT/forklift training sessions
(classroom AN and on-site), following personal certification through formal training and
occupational experience wI various configurations of forklifts.
» Achieved facilitator/trainer credentials through MEDIC First Aid to teach Basic First
Aid / CPR / AED classes.
» Administered employer's DOT/FMCSA Controlled Substance and Alcohol Testing
(C/SAT) for regulated drivers (Class A, B, and C).

3. Employment History:
2006 - Present day: HSE 1 OSHA 1 HAZWOPER 1 MSHA 1 DOT 1 AK-DEC 1 HR
consultation and training for numerous clients: Hot Wire Electric (Chenega Corp.),
T and M Roofing Enterprises, Logger's Association of Northern California, AK Land
Clearing, TDX Power, M2C1 Construction and Engineering, BP Exploration I Alaska,
Inlet Petroleum, John Wheeler Logging, Inc., etc.
as sole proprietor dba DKSafety
7/2015 - Present day: On-Call Tier III Adjunct HAZWOPER Instructor Prince William
Sound Community College; Valdez, AK
6/2010-2/2012: HSE Field Specialist for TAPS Project F673 AHTNA Construction and
Primary Products; Anchorage, AK
7 thru 10/2010: HSSE Contractor 1BP MC252 GOM Oil Spill Response ESS/Gulf;
Lafayette, LA
2008-2009: Field Safety Professional 1AK AMERISAFE Insurance; DeRidder, LA
1999-2006: Company Safety Director John Wheeler Logging, Inc.; Red Bluff, CA
Education:
Shasta College Business Administration 1971-1973
University of Oregon Bus. Admin. I Accounting 1973-1975

4. Professional I Personal References:
Herbert ("Safety Herb") E. Everett
Safety Consultant, dba "Safety Herb"
Former Director of Safety and Worker's Compensation
Westmark Hotels - Alaska! Yukon
Anchorage, AK
(573) 754-3436 (home); (907) 244-1943 (cell)
safety _herb@aol.com
Alicia Martinez
HSE Manager
ENST AR Natural Gas
Anchorage, AK
(907) 330-7580 (cell)
AliciaMartnez@enstarnaturalgas.com
Chris Pobieglo
Principal! Broker
Business Insurance Associates, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
(907) 274-4142 (office)
chris@businessinsuranceassociates.com
Tim Huegel
Supervisor, Motor Carrier Safety Unit! Northern Division
California Highway Patrol
Redding, CA
(530) 917-4280 (cell)
1cmvconsultant@gmail.com
BG(R) Wendell B. McLain
Former Incident Field Commander! AL, MS, and FL Areas
BP MC252 Maconda Spill Response
Auburn, AL
(205) 288-1851 (cell)
no e-mail available

5. 1000494Alaska Business License #
Alaska Department of Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Division of Corporations, Business and Professional Licensing
P.O. Box 110806, Juneau, Alaska 99811-0806
This is to certify that
DANIEL W. KRUSZE I DKSAFETY
10250 JAMESTOWN DRIVE, # 1 ANCHORAGE AK 99507
owned by
DANIEL W KRUSZE
is licensed by the department to conduct business for the period
December 20,2017 through December 31,2018
for the following line of business:
54 - Professional, Scientific and Technical Services
This license shall not be taken as permission to do business in the state without
having complied with the other requirements of the laws of the State or of the United States.
This license must be posted in a conspicuous place at the business location.
It is not transferable or assignable.
Mike Navarre

6. HAS COMPLETED AN AUTHORIZED TRAINING SESSION RE:
USDOL / OSHA HAZWOPER
8 hour annual refresher training
for the calendar year 2018
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9. Professional Powerhouse
Wheeler Logging Inc. rides quality performance
to 2003 Timber Harvesting award.
by Dan Shell
It's late July in north central California, and the weather is brutal, with temperatures soaring above 1050
F. Inside the large
offices of Wheeler Logging Inc., Office Manager Cheryl Holder trains a new truck dispatcher, and her husband, President
Dave Holder, sifts through production reports. Vice President Johnny Miller, who serves as general crew supervisor,
prepares for a parts-run to one of the company's eight crews. And every so often, yet another load of logs rolls by the office,
which faces state Highway 36, a major route into the Sierra Cascade foothills and mountains where Wheeler Logging has
forged a sterling reputation.
RED BLUFF, Calif.
The Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year award for 2003 goes to Wheeler Logging Inc., the sixth in a select
group of top-notch logging contractors named to the award since it was inaugurated in 1998.
Logging Business of the Year award winners are chosen by the TH editorial staff on the
basis of solid business and operational performance both in and out of the woods, career
longevity, leadership, integrity and pro-industry involvement. Wheeler Logging makes a
fine addition to the honor roll of previous winners and continues the publication's
tradition of highlighting industry's top performers.
The 74-year-old Holder and the consummate professionals staffing the Wheeler team
have built a powerhouse logging company in the midst of the most challenging business
and forestry climate in the country. John Wheeler Logging had been a successful
company for decades prior to the founder's death in 1988. Since then the business has
bounced back from the brink of financial disaster, upgraded its equipment lineup to
better handle a smaller timber resource and developed a state-of-the art safety program
in response to a workers' comp insurance crisis.
All this happened while the company moved a mountain of wood. The largest contractor linked to Sierra Pacific
Industries and rated as one of the nation's top 10 logging firms by volume, Wheeler Logging Inc. in 2002 moved 16,258
loads of logs and more than 4,000 loads of chips, representing 75MMBF and more than 56,000 tons, respectively.
Along the way, Holder and Wheeler Logging were named the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference's 1999 Logger of the
Year. The business is also a member of Associated California Loggers, Logger's Assn. Of Northern California, the
California Trucking Assn. and California Chamber of Commerce.
Background
Born in Ohio in 1929, Holder and his family moved to California in
the middle of the Great Depression, then relocated to Shady Cove
in southwest Oregon right after World War ll. Soon after, Holder
went to work in the woods as a faUer and bucker, just in time to get
in on the last years of misery whip hand saw work.
He entered the Army in 1949 and served in the 11th Airborne Div.'s
187th Regiment, making two combat jumps in the Korean conflict.
Though he experienced a world much larger than the one he left
behind when he went to war, Holder says be never considered doing

10. anything else and went right back to the woods, working for Kline Contracting of Medford, Ore. He says of his early
career: "Logging was just a job. It was really the only thing going on in the area, and there were lots of jobs available.
Basically, anyone who wanted to work, especially work hard, had a job. "
Holder began as a log bucker, then ran a Cat and moved up to loader before working into a supervisory position,
guiding two crews that did mostly cable logging. It was during this time, in the late '50s, that Kline did some work for
California's John Wheeler Logging. Since Wheeler didn't do cable logging, Kline developed into Wheeler's cable work
subcontractor, with Holder supervising much of the work.
John Wheeler had been after Holder to come to work for him, and in 1964 Holder joined him. He eventually supervised
seven logging subcontractors-all working for Diamond's old Stirling
City mill-for Wheeler.
When Diamond closed the mill Holder moved back to Wheeler's
main office in Red Bluff, where he worked as a logging supervisor
and bid harvesting jobs. Much of the work was on Diamond and LP
land and the company also handled plenty of Forest Service jobs.
Tragedy, Tnrnaronnd
In 1988 John Wheeler died from cancer. Due to demands on his
estate, limited operating capital clashed with abigh debt load.
The company's biggest creditor, Caterpillar dealer Peterson Tractor,
contacted Holder, then the company's top supervisor, and asked if he was interested in taking it over. The only
alternative was to shut down John Wheeler Logging.
"I was interested, but said I'd have to give it some thought," Holder remembers. "I talked with Cheryl, and we decided
we'd do it, knowing it would take a lot of hard work, and we'd need some help. But there were a lot of good people in
this company then, and there still are-a lot of people who've been here more than 20 years--and ifit weren't for them,
we couldn't have pulled it out."
Wheeler turned to Johnny Miller, another Wheeler supervisor, and
asked Miller to become the company's top supervisor while Holder
took control of the administrative side of the business. (In deference
to Wheeler's reputation and memory, Holder maintained the
Wheeler name.)
"I pulled Miller aside and told him it would take a lot of hard work
to get this thing turned around, and he said, 'Let's give 'er a try,' and
we just took the bull by the horns," Holder says. Another key
employee and long-time supervisor, Vern McCoshum, a company
vice president and part owner, provided additional stability and expertise during the transition.
One factor affecting the company was a lack of mechanization. It had 35 fallers on the payroll and labor-intensive log
merchandising was the rule. Slowly, the company began adapting to the smaller timber available following the
shutdown of national forests.
The Fire Factor
One big boost Wheeler Logging received during this critical time in
the early '90s was a heavy workload resulting from the Fountain
Fire northeast of Redding, which scorched more than 125,000 acres
of mostly private timberland. "Once the salvage project for that fire
got going, they (Roseburg and Sierra Pacific, the two biggest
landowners hit) wanted every logger they could find," Holder says,
"and we got a good portion of the work."
Contracting mostly with Roseburg, Wheeler Logging worked almost

11. two solid years in the burn. "It really got us back on our feet," Holder says of the extensive salvage work. "They liked
our work, gave us plenty of it, and since tbat time we've been very busy." A few years later, when Sierra Pacific
purchased Roseburg's northern California timberlands, "We were able to stay right with the flow," Holder says.
Today, Wheeler Logging is the largest contractor working for SPI.
Mike Mitzel, Sierra Pacific's Lassen District Manager who oversees activities on 233,000 acres in northern California,
and who has worked with the Wheeler team and Holder for 28 years, vouches for the company's professionalism.
"Dave and bis company have seen tbe upward and downward trends
of the logging industry and have been able to overcome and
continue to survive under the challenging business climate in
California," Mitzel says. He adds that Wheeler is certified under the
Sustainable Forestry Initiative and participates in continuing
education and training.
"Wheeler has a reputation as a high quality business excelling in
harvesting practices, quality log manufacturing, 10f;! sorting and
production," Mitzel continues, "and their safety and training
program is unsurpassed by any logging business on the West Coast. "
Holder says holding tbe company to a higher standard is a reflection
of John Wheeler's integrity as well as the current team's efforts. "One day John Wheeler saw a load go by the office
that wasn't right, and he stopped the truck, sent it back to the woods and had them reload it," Holder remembers.
"That has always stuck with me."
Quality isn't just a matter of pride; it can also mean the difference in survival, Holder believes. "There are a lot of
loggers, and I've always believed that if we don't stand out, if we're not one ofthe top contractors, then we're not going
to be bere," be says. "So we've always preacbed to tbe supervisors and all tbe guys tbat we have to do better and
produce a better product."
Solid Management
In addition to Holder, Miller and McCoshum, key employees include Ron Hartman, bead mechanic, Adam Bosworth,
trucking supervisor, and logging supervisors Tommy Hyatt, who runs one crew, James Bell, who oversees the chipping
crews, Bob Kezer, who handles a conventional crew, Steve Digby, cable log~ng foreman, and Charlie Evans, chipping
operations foreman. Holder's wife, Cheryl, is the office manager, and Dan Krusze is the company's full-time safety
director. Wheeler Logging currently employs around 115.
"Good people are the secret to any successful business, and that's what we have," says Holder. "All our (supervisors)
are true professionals, and in today's world, if you don't have confident professionals out there, you're not going to
make it"
Keeping track of the large revenues and costs inherent with running such a large operation, Holder is management's
point man. "Every day I get a total load count, so I know where we're at production-wise at all times," he says, adding
that the daily reports are generated by crew and include job and mill destination information. "That way I always have
a running total on every crew and every job. "
Holder also closely tracks costs. "The ladies in the office pull every
purchase order, and every expense requires one," he says. "That's
primarily bow I keep track of everything, by PO, and you have to."
Of special concern are wages, which have become a huge expense
thanks to related workers' comp cost increases. For example,
California is currently facing a huge general increase in workers'
comp rates, boosting Wheeler's annual W/C costs from just over
$600,000 to $990,000 annually.

12. Em ployee Input
Key to the company's performance are monthly supervisors' meetings in which supervisors are encouraged to come
forth with any concerns, gripes or ideas they have for improving efficiency.
"Everyone is invited to bring in their ideas on a piece of paper, and we'll go over every one ofthem," Holder says.
"We'll also want to know what has happened in the past month, how things are operating, any problems, whatever's on
their minds.
"The guys are always coming up witb some real good ideas. We discuss them, and if they want to make a change that's
beneficial to the overall company, then that's what we do."
Cheryl Holder oversees all company paperwork and manages a staffthat includes two full-time clerical employees and
a full-time truck dispatcher. Computerized office management and bookkeeping are handled by three computers: a
stand-alone unit running Microsoft Excel that's used mainly to keep track of payroll hours and daily activities, plus two
others that handle the remaining accounting activities using MAS 90 accounting software and Office Equipment Co.'s
LoadTracker software. Plans are to upgrade computer capacity within the next year to a server-based four or five
workstation system running the Windows XP Professional operating system.
Operations
Timber Harvesting found two of Wheeler Logging's crews working tbe 8-9MMBF
McCarty Cat sale on Sierra Pacific land northeast of Red Bluff, a job consisting of
19 different timber harvest units ranging from 18-20 acres. Equipment on site
included three Cat skidders, a Cat 225 loader, two Timbcos with Koehring
sawheads running Quadco teeth and a Timberline stroke delimber. According to
crew supervisor Tommy Hyatt, the crews were producing 35-40 loads daily of
white fir, sugar pine, cedar and Douglas fir going to SPI miUs at Anderson, Quincy
and Oroville.
Wheeler operates three conventional logging, two cable logging and three chipping
sides. Most ofthe company's work is in private land terminal harvests generally
under 50 acres and irregular-sized to meet the state's stringent forestry
regulations.
The company's equipment lineup is extensive and spread among eight crews,
encompassing an overall investment of $7-8 million. The roster includes:
* Loaders-Two Barko 550s, two Caterpillar and two Deere bydraulic heel boom
loaders, one Prentice 410, four Cat 966 wheel loaders.
* Cutter/delimbers/processors--Seven Timbco f-bs with 22 in. Quadco sawheads, four Timberline stroke delimbers.
* Skidders-Seven Cat 518s, three Deere 648s, two Cat 527 track types, one Cat 528, one Cat 530.
* Two Precision 6623 chippers, one Morbark 6036 chipper.
* Trucks-Nineteen Kenworths and Peterbilts, 11 chip vans, eigbt 4,000 gal. water trucks, two Kenwortb lowboys.

13. * Related equipment includes seven Cat D7s, three 12G Cat graders, one D68E
and one D65E Komatsu dozer, two backhoes.
Generally, Wheeler approaches each tract by first removing chips and fuel wood,
followed by mechanized falling and delimbing smaller timber, then going back and
hand-falling and removing the larger timber.
"Going in and chipping first just makes everything easier," Miller says. It helps
that Sierra Pacific is heavily committed to cogeneration at its manufacturing
plants, providing a steady chip and fuelwood market. As well, major cogen
electricity producer Wheelabrator is also located nearby.
All equipment is supported by a large and well-stocked maintenance system
housed in two buildings, one for trucks and related equipment and one for woods
equipment. The facility features a covered wash area that recycles water, a large
drive-through truck service bay that can accommodate any piece of equipment
Wheeler has, plus extensive outdoor covered work areas.
Keeping the iron rolling is an extensive parts inventory of more than $50,000. Off-
site service work is handled with four fully loaded service trucks, two with Auto-Crane booms and two with A-frames.
The service trucks feature torches, air compressors, welders and an assortment of parts.
Another innovation is a set of lockers, one for each crew, on the exterior of the shop building where the mechanic staff
can set parts or other items that the crew supervisors or their designated employees can pick up after hours or early in
the morning.
The facility also features a certified and covered fuel depot and a rollover weigh scale. Rigs roll on Michelin tires and
pull Peerless and Miller trailers equipped with Lodec and Williams on-board scales. Chip vans are from Peerless.
Bosworth adds that since almost all the trucks are parked at the
compound each night, they receive constant care for anything that
might come up, as well as regular mileage- and hour-based
maintenance.
Holder notes that by the time Wheeler died, he had gotten completely
out of the trucking end of the business, but as the company got back
on its feet Holder began adding trucks to better control woods
production.
"I still sort of view it as a necessary evil, especially in California with all the regulations on fuel, tires, weight, trailers,
liability and everything else--it's just completely crazy," Holder says.
In addition to Wheeler's trucks, the company at any given time is usually
hauling in concert with some of Sierra Pacific's fleet and an extensive
contract trucking lineup. At the time TH visited, Wheeler was running
55-60 trucks overall. A large fleet of more than 35 pickups and crummies
keeps personnel moving to and from job sites.
Future
Perhaps the biggest decision now facing the company is yet another
transition, as Holder prepares to retire. "That's what I'm up against right
now, trying to get everything lined up so the company can continue with a
new ownership structure," he says. "I'm sort of in a search mode right
now, and I spend a lot of sleepless nights thinking about it, because it's
something you can't just work out in a couple of hours like other issues."
Another soon-to-be-pressing need is an equipment lineup update. After

14. mechanizing and adapting to small timber, going as small as the Cat 518 for the bulk of its skidding capacity, the
company has recently been purchasing larger skidders to do more tree-length handling.
Yet the seedlings Sierra Pacific has planted all over northern and central California keep growing, and soon the
company will need to embark on an extensive thinning program to maximize its timherland investment. "We know
thinning work is coming, but I think Sierra Pacific is still trying to decide how to handle it," Miller says, adding that the
region's rugged terrain will provide a thinning challenge.
As Timber Harvesting says its goodbyes, Dave Holder is taking a break from his daily production and cost analysis to
research a request by Sierra Pacific to add another 6AfMBF of production this logging season. "1said, 'Let me look into it;
that's another half million a month per crew, ", Holder says. "1need to run it by our guys and see what we can do, maybe
pick up another Cat or two and a couple of men. Adding that much production isn't that simple. " It never is, which makes
the Timber Harvesting Logging Business of the Year Award that much more significant
Wheeler's InjurylIllness Prevention Program
Roughly a decade after Wheeler Logging had turned the financial corner following the death of its founder, another
crisis hit: workers' comp rates that were 154% of payroll. In response, Holder approached former employee Dan
Krusze, an experienced logger working for another contractor on the coast, and asked him to rejoin Wheeler as the
company's full-time safety director in 1999. "He put together a great, state-of-the-art safety program, and in three
years we got our W/C costs down to 80% of payroll," Holder says.
Krusze remembers the company was doing a lot of things well safety-wise, but the biggest problem was a poor jnb of
documentation. As a result, Wheeler was unable to defend itself on even the most routine we claims or safety audits.
"Things like employee handbooks, current training records and safety manuals-we just didn't have them," he says.
The safety director took to the new job with vigor, developing safety forms and programs and thoroughly documenting
them. The primary document is the Wheeler Logging Inc. Injury and Dlness
Prevention Program, a document developed from CA-OSHA codes and
guidelines that contains extensive information on Wheeler Logging's
compliance, communication, hazard assessment and correction, training and
instruction, accident reporting and investigating and overall record keeping
processes. The program also contains employee evaluation forms, drug testing
consent forms, safety meeting minutes forms and even a map and emergency
evacuation and transportation plan for the office.
The kicker is that much of the ongoing safety program information is
eventually transferred to computer by scanning the completed forms, then
placing them in a database tbat can be accessed by crew or individual.
Additional records are also kept, including truck and trailer maintenance
records.
Krusze says even tbe most hard-nosed "safety cop inspector" will lose their eagerness to plow through paper when he
bands tbem the first four or five computerized safety records on CD and tells them to have fun. "Neatness, as well as
thoroughness, tends to shorten inspections," he adds.
The emphasis on safety is reflected in Wheeler's bottom line and also its ability to survive. Initially, there was some
animosity among employees, probably because they didn't realize how serious the situation was and that the changes
simply had to be made, Krusze remembers.
Such a willingness to adapt reflects a management acumen that has enabled Wheeler to survive and thrive among
numerous regulatory challenges. "Dave Holder is a great facilitator and mentor. When he finds people he feels strongly
about, he gives them a job and lets them do it," Krusze says. "Holder not only committed to improve the safety
program, he also gave me the means to do it. "