COO, Mariner Gulf Consulting & Services, LLC

Joseph D Long, CSM, CSA, SIT, COSS is a practicing safety professional consultant and the vice president of Mariner-Gulf Consulting & Services, an internationally recognized boutique occupational safety and health consulting firm. Mr. Long has served in this position for the past twelve years. His duties include managing field operations, global account management teams for third party verifications, trainers, technical writers, and incident investigation teams.

Prior to assuming his duties at Mariner-Gulf, Mr. Long served as the HSE Director for PEC Safety Management for over a decade. Mr. Long was responsible for developing and implementing instructor audit programs to prove the integrity of the PEC SafeLand and SafeGulf programs. Under his leadership, the foundational development and implementation of a nationwide Train-The-Trainer program was accomplished. Focusing on training development, Mr. Long management the writing team for PEC producing PEC Basic Orientation and PEC Core Compliance. His efforts in developing and operating the PEC standardized safety questionnaire greatly reduced redundant pre-qualifications and is the foundation for which current third-party verification systems operate.
Chief among his many professional accomplishments, Mr. Long was instrumental in securing the contract to provide training for oil spill workers in response to the Deepwater Horizon incident. Working with industry leaders, Mr. Long and his team developed the training program within two weeks of the incident, qualified and managed over 125 instructors and trained 150,000 responders in the first 90 days post incident and 300,000 by incident’s end.

Mr. Long developed and designed the nationally recognized and acclaimed Battlefields to Oilfields (B2O) to train post 9/11 veterans in over 50 certifications for placement in various positions in the oil and gas industry.

Mr. Long lives in Madisonville, Louisiana with his fiancé, an avid outdoorsman, and volunteer youth baseball coach.