Mike Sibley is President and Co-founder of Courage Safety Systems, a consulting services company that provides specialist risk control, loss control, safety and health management advice and support to a broad spectrum of businesses in the Western United States.

Mr. Sibley is a Risk Control Specialist and Consultant Member of the American Society of Safety Engineers. Mike is also a full professional member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, which specializes in Occupational & Environmental Health & Safety. Prior to co-founding Courage Safety Systems, Mike was Vice-President for the Western Region of a publicly held Safety Consulting firm, where he provided safety advice and support to a diverse range of industries. These included warehousing and wholesale distribution, ship-repair, road construction and repair, retail chains, supermarket chains, county government, nursing homes, construction and engineering repair/maintenance yards. His 30 year career in safety consulting and human resource management started when he was awarded the Diploma of Membership of Imperial College, University of London, attained Masters Degree status in Operations Research & Management Studies (Industrial Sociology), Department of Mechanical Engineering and also achieved full chartered professional engineer status.

Courage Safety Systems, LLC., has been very successful in construction & the residential home building industry and quickly took the position as the premier provider of expert safety services and compliance advice to home builders in the west. In addition to providing environmental health and safety services to public companies such as Shell Oil, Centex Homes, Standard Pacific Homes, Toll Brothers, U.S./Lennar, Pulte Homes, The Irvine Company, D.R. Horton, Courage is providing safety services to over 600 employment locations every month. Since AB 1127 was introduced into California law, the multi-employer aspects of safety regulations, on a typical high-hazard construction job site, has become quite challenging. Mike has conducted seminars and workshops to many builders on this subject for the Building Industry Association in Southern California and more recently for the California Building Industry Foundation. Courage has also been selected by The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), in conjunction with Federal OSHA, to provide Safety Training to its building industry members in the western United States. Mike also gives OSHA 10 hour and 30 hour safety training programs for the construction industry. More recently, Courage has been selected to serve on the joint CBIA/ CalOSHA task force and is on the working committee helping to update Cal/OSHA regulations and standards for the home building industry in the State of California.

Under Mike's leadership, Courage Safety Systems has been enjoying strong growth, has increased its revenues by over 30% every year since 1995 thru’ 2004, and now provides service to over one hundred & forty five builder clients.

 

Mr. Tippell has more than 30 years experience in the real estate and homebuilding industries. both in the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Tippell directed all of Taylor Woodrow Homes housing companies in the U.S., was the 1993 President of the Building Industry Association of Southern California and was inducted into the California Building Industries Hall of Fame in 1994. Gordon sits on the NAHB's Construction, Safety & Heath Committee