Jim Olson has over thirty years of professional safety and environmental experience. He has worked in the solid waste industry, transportation industry, and printing industry. His responsibilities have focused on field EH&S management and EH&S program development and implementation. Jim has a wide breadth of organizational and industry safety knowledge and leads a team of eight employees in the Corporate office along with providing direction to 75 field safety managers and trainers.

In addition to his work at Republic, Jim serves as a board Chair for the American Red Cross Central and Northern Arizona Chapter and is active in the National Sold Waste Management Association as Chair Emeritus of the Safety Committee. He also is a member of the Governing Board for Together for Safer Roads, a coalition of private companies working together to make the world’s roads safer for all people.