Welcome
Gary Davis brings decades of incident-free expertise in oil & gas and heavy civil projects across Western Canada. I have an extensive catalog of safety training and services goes beyond provincial and national construction safety qualifications, empowering him to prioritize safety, efficiency, and compliance.
From operating heavy equipment to building a complete safety program from the ground up Gary will deliver comprehensive solutions tailored to the evolving demands of today’s workplaces that meet or exceed provincial legislation and occupational health and safety regulation.
Skills and Knowledge
Gary Davis has trained hundereds of heavy and specialized equipment operators and thousands of ground force trades and staff employees. He has performed hundereds of field training, familiarization, and competency evaluations to meet client and provincial legislated requirements.
He has created and adopted proven safety and training methodologies by industry leading international companies and opens that knowledge base to companies looking to improve on their existing safety program or who want to ensure their SMS is set up properly, effectively, and efficiently.

Some skillsets and knowledge:
- Safety Coordinator/Manager
- Pipeline construction and integrity inspection
- Project Consulting or Supervision
- Safety Specialist
- Risk assessment analysis
- Incident Investigation
- Root cause analysis
- Quality Assurance
- Front-line supervisor training
- Hazard recognition training
- Heavy Equipment Operator training
- Working near heavy equipment training
- Mobile Elevated Work Platform (MEWP) Certification
- Pre-task instruction (safety meetings)
- Documentation Specialization
- Industry Heavy Equipmnet Operations
Industries:
- Oil & Gas
- Forestry
- Agriculture
- Information Technology (data centres)
Health and safety in today’s workplace are of paramount importance due to the inherently hazardous nature of industrial occupations. The use of powered heavy mobile equipment, elevated heights, confined spaces, and high-risk tasks introduces significant risks that demand a disciplined approach to health and safety. Ensuring worker safety not only protects employees from potential injuries but also reduces—if not eliminates—downtime and improves productivity.
Employers today face a new dynamic as the growing diversity of the workforce presents unique challenges. New workers from varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds may struggle to understand safety protocols, communicate effectively, or adapt to federal and provincial workplace standards.
With provincial workplace legislation continually evolving and the increasing application of the Canadian Criminal Code in workplace safety cases, employers who fail to invest in comprehensive safety programs risk severe financial penalties and, in extreme cases, potential imprisonment.
Training and Heavy Equipment Operations
Provincial legislation across Canada requires employers to provide proper training to their workforce. Gary Davis specializes in ensuring that employees effectively absorb that training and appreciate the value and recognize the benefits of a safe work culture.
Clients of all sizes, from local to international, are demanding contractors bring competent operators to their projects and often impose policies that limit a contractor’s ability to provide in-field training to new equipment operators.
Gary Davis has a designated operator program that enables you to meet client competency requirements that were developed and refined by a team of heavy operator professionals with decades of experience in the oil and gas and heavy civil industries.
Health, Safety, and Environmental Stewardship
Gary Davis offers extensive knowledge and experience with implementing and promoting a qualified safety management plan that meets or exceeds provincial occupational health and safety requirements and will produce sucessfull COR audits.
If you are looking for a professional to fulfill the roles of a construction safety officer, safety coordinator or safety manager, Gary can ensure your company fulfills its due diligence requirements and delivers a safe working environment to both your clients and your employees.
Risk and Hazard Assessment
Due diligence requires that employers are ensuring workers are completing competent hazard assessments and implementing safe work practices and safeguards to ensure workplace safety. Employers face challenges though as their workforce finds way to pencil-whip field level hazard assessments or fail to properly perform assessments.
A simple observation that suggest workers could use mentoring or training in hazard assessments is to review their FLHA cards. If you find that a worker has indicated “slips and trips” as a hazard, that indicates that worker would benefit from mentoring or retraining.
Gary Davis can train and mentor your workforce to recognize not only their OHS legislated responsibilities, but also the consequences that apply through due diligence in the Criminal Code of Canada.
Incident and Root Cause Analysis
The industry works hard to ensure that every day is incident free and that workers are properly trained and protected from injury. Often the conversation demands a safety culture, but that culture is often challenged by perception, complacency, and negligence. When an incident happens, it is critical that the incident is properly investigated and that corrective actions are identified and administered.
Gary Davis provides competent and independent incident investigations and root cause analysis. Root cause analysis often identifies the issue that is well beyond the operator or worker which enables the ability to develop proper and effective corrective actions.
Pipeline Inspector
Gary Davis brings decades of oil and gas experience spanning upstream and midstream projects, from pipeline right-of-way development and heavy civil earthworks to terminal bolt-up construction. His career includes work on high-profile infrastructure such as the Trans Mountain Expansion Project, where he operated across critical assets like the Westridge Marine Terminal, Burnaby Mountain Terminal, and Sumas.
Currently pursuing API 1169 (Pipeline Construction Inspector) and API 1104 (Welding Inspection) certifications, Gary is expanding his already broad competencies into pipeline construction and integrity inspection. His background as a National Construction Safety Officer (NCSO), supervisor, and heavy equipment operator/trainer ensures a well-rounded, boots-on-the-ground understanding of project execution, site safety, and quality assurance.
With a meticulous approach to documentation, incident reporting, and compliance, Gary’s strong work ethic, attention to detail, and firsthand construction experience align perfectly with the high standards expected of today’s pipeline inspectors. Whether supporting weld inspections, environmental control, or as-built reviews, Gary delivers value by bridging safety, quality, and production priorities without compromise.
Quality Assurance
Quality assurance is primarily associated with ensuring engineered deliverables are met in a productive and profitable manner. The focus tends to be towards the metrics of the project and one critical element to quality is often overlooked or dismissed: - worker involvement and satisfaction.
Gary Davis provides a liaison between the project and the workforce, helping to build worker pride and productivity by engaging in joint conversations with the chain of command to broadcast the design plans and project goals to the workforce. Helping workers visualize the endgame helps them deliver on their expectations which in turn promotes productivity and embraces quality in design and implementation.