Life at HazTek
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Roxchelle Wright
March 11, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Roxchelle “Roxi” Wright started her construction career in 2006 after becoming interested and intrigued by others’ construction stories and the earning potential in the field. Roxi began her career as a Fire Watch / Confined Space Attendant (also known as a Hole Watch) and within three years she was promoted to Foreman.Roxi’s love of travel influenced her decision to become a traveling Fo... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Leslie Blankenbiller
March 11, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Leslie Blankenbiller has over forty years of experience in the construction industry. As a third-generation construction industry worker, she has been around construction for her entire life. Leslie started out as a carpenter and worked her way to management, noting that safety has always been at the forefront of all of her jobs.Leslie never could have imagined the incredible journey ... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Yajaira “Jay” Torres
March 11, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Yajaira “Jay” Torres was in her late 20's when she came across a flyer for an opportunity to become a pre-apprentice for the trade of her choice. At the time, Jay was at a crossroads in her life — she was a single mom who had lost her job right after the economy tanked, and she had no idea what she wanted to do. Construction had never even been a consideration for her, let alone an opti... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Margaret “Peg” Neville
March 10, 2021
HazTek Principal Environmental Health & Safety Consultant Peg Neville started her career in safety and risk management early on, earning her Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) license while in high school and working as a Risk Reduction Manager for a Fortune 500 company while in college. She earned a degree in Environmental & Natural Sciences and continued with graduate certificates in Construction Management a... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Connie Rogers
March 10, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Connie Rogers has been in the construction industry for over 15 years, starting in the construction world after her children were grown. Her husband, Mark, traveled all the time as an assistant superintendent working in mechanical piping for power plants and Connie didn’t want to be at home alone. Mark told her that he would help her get her first job, but after that it was up to her.Connie’... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Tanisha Norwood
March 9, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Tanisha Norwood joined HazTek in 2015 and she will be celebrating 20 years of working as a Safety Professional, this November. While most of Tanisha’s family members are either in law enforcement or the military, there were not many from her family who went the construction route.Throughout her career, Tanisha has had the pleasure of working with several Fortune 500 companies and she has w... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Elise Brewer
March 9, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Elise Brewer says, “From the time I was about 5 years old, and because my dad was in construction for many years, my goal was to ‘be a builder when I grow up’ — I’ve said that a million times in my life!” Elise began working in the construction industry back in 1976, working as a receptionist for an apartment building construction company in Little Rock, Arkansas, where her supervisors got her ... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Eileen Foley
March 9, 2021
HazTek Safety Professional Eileen Foley started her career as a bench chemist, working for an environmental laboratory in New Hampshire where safety played a major role in her work. As the laboratory grew to other geographic areas, she had the responsibility of being the project manager with construction oversight for laboratory buildouts in Arizona, Florida, and Northern and Southern California, as well as the expansion... Read more...
Women in Construction Week | Spotlight on Misty Hamilton
March 8, 2021
In honor of Women in Construction Week, HazTek is featuring several of our safety professionals who work out in the field.HazTek Safety Professional Misty Hamilton began her career in safety while working with a chemical fertilizer company in Ohio. She expects to earn her Master’s degree in Occupational Safety & Environmental Health in May 2021.... Read more...
HazTek Celebrates Women in Construction Week
March 7 – March 13, 2021
March 5, 2021
The National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC) created Women in Construction (WIC) Week to highlight women as a viable component of the construction industry. WIC Week is also an occasion for the thousands of NAWIC members across the country to help raise awareness of the growing role of women in the construction industry and the opportunities available to them.... Read more...