I'm Brad Johnson, a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and Safety Coordinator at Parker Water & Sanitation District in Colorado. I've spent more than a decade working in high-risk industries, such as oil & gas and municipal utilities, focused on one seemingly simple objective: keeping people safe where, and how, the work actually happens.
In my experience working in a diverse set of safety roles across several different organizations, I’ve had the most success with a risk-based, employee-centered approach to safety.
That combination of experience and success led me to document these ideas, tools, and results in the book Noncompliant Safety.
My goal is to help people build better safety programs by shifting how they think about risk and how they act on it, moving beyond compliance and toward what actually keeps people safe. Most safety resources focus on policies, academic research, and theory. This book focuses on what actually happens in daily work and how to make it safer.
Parker Water & Sanitation District
– Safety Coordinator
OSHA-exempt public utility
ConocoPhillips
– HSE Field Lead (North Dakota, Colorado)
– HSE Analyst (Houston)
Certified Safety Professional (CSP)
Since 2019. Board of Certified Safety Professionals
In 2024, Parker Water & Sanitation District was named Safest District of the Year by the Colorado Special Districts Property and Liability Pool (CSD Pool). This award recognizes organizations with strong safety cultures and proactive risk management practices. According to the award announcement: “From the first time you step foot in their organization, it is apparent that their team takes safety and risk management seriously. From this dedication, they have been awarded the CSD Pool’s 2024 Safest District of the Year.”
Outside of work, I’m a husband and a dad of three. I care deeply about helping people do risky work safely and sending them go home safe at the end of each day, not just because it’s my job, but because it’s personal.
If you care about safety, risk, and helping get the work done, you are in the right place and I would like to know how we can help each other.
