Melo Named Bell & Gossett’s Manager of Environmental Health & Safety

Chicago, IL-October 11, 1999-Jeffrey T. Melo has been appointed Manager of Environmental Health & Safety for Bell & Gossett, a unit of ITT Industries. In his new position, Melo has primary responsibility for implementing strategies to ensure compliance with environment, safety & health regulations, to reduce facility related environmental impacts, to guide pollution prevention efforts, and coach others in the effort to sustain the safest possible work environment.

Melo has held various positions in the environmental consulting and services field and in general industry, focusing on forward-thinking environmental and safety management system improvements. For the last three years, Melo served as Manager of Environment, Safety & Training for McDonnell & Miller of Chicago, another ITT Industries unit.
Among Melo’s noteworthy accomplishments are his contributions to health and safety planning and subsurface environmental investigations on more than 75 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (LARWQCB), and Western Regional Superfund Instigated Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Projects.

  • 1999 President’s Council for Sustainable Development and Renew America’s National Pollution Prevention Award
  • 1998 ITT Industries “Gold Ring of Quality” Award Leader, ESH Impact Team Program
  • 1998 Illinois Governor’s Pollution Prevention Award
  • 1997 ISO 14001 Third-Party Certification at McDonnell & Miller (the first Illinois firm and the first ITT Industries U.S. unit to achieve such certification)
  • 1997, earned “Meets”-the highest internal ESH audit rating for the corporate ESH audit of McDonnell & Miller
  • 1995 California Waste Reduction Award

Melo, who attended the University of California, Irvine and Berkeley, is affiliated with the following professional organizations and think-tank groups: National Association for Environmental Management, the Environmental Law Institute, the National Safety Council, the National Fire Protection Association, the Illinois EPA ISO 14001 Multi-State Pilot Program, and the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies.

At McDonnell & Miller-and previously with ITT Industry’s Barton Unit in City of Industry, California-Melo was responsible for numerous ESH leadership strategies that have received recognition at the highest levels, including:

Bell & Gossett, a unit of ITT Industries, is a leading manufacturer of centrifugal pumps, hydronic specialties, heat exchangers, condensate handling equipment, and packaged systems for variable and constant speed pumping, heat transfer and pressure boosting.

For more information contact Bell & Gossett, 8200 N. Austin Avenue, Morton Grove, IL 60053; phone 847/966-3700; fax 847/966-9052. Or visit the Bell & Gossett website at www.bellgossett.com