About Sanovus
Sanovus is dedicated to helping companies and safety professionals pursue safety excellence. It focuses on providing expert consulting services and professional development materials. It was founded by Donald “Don” Fritz, a Certified Safety Professional, as a means of advancing his skills, pursuing his passion, and giving something back to the safety profession.
The name, Sanovus, is a combination of the word safety (sa), and the Latin word for new (novus), the latter being the basis for the English word innovate. Hence the tagline, Safety Innovated. Sanovus aims to provide effective safety solutions based on new ideas, methods, and strategies.
Mission
Vision
Values
Assisting safety professionals and businesses in their pursuit of safety excellence; providing them with strategic solutions for improving their safety performance, compliance, competence, and culture.
A safety profession that embraces strategy to drive continual improvement in safety performance and compliance, and focuses on the cultivation of safety cultures and development of safety professionals.
People: Prioritizing employee safety and health, and helping safety practioners reach their full potential.
Process: Optimizing safety systems and processes for sustainable, exemplary safety performance.
About Our Founder
Don Fritz is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) who has spent 25 of his 30-year career improving safety performance in heavy industries, including independent service providers for the power generation, oil and gas, industrial, and aerospace industries. He worked in Environmental, Health & Safety (EH&S) roles at all levels of the organization, including the business unit, divisional, and corporate levels. His experience includes safety oversight for both domestic and international businesses, and he prides himself on having repeatedly achieved annual double-digit injury rate reductions. He also has a passion for helping others in the EH&S field develop their professional careers. (LinkedIn Profile)
Mr. Fritz began his career in the U.S. Navy’s prestigious Nuclear Power Program. Upon graduating from Navy Nuclear Power School, he was picked up as a junior staff instructor. He later served aboard a ballistic missile submarine. That experience served as a springboard to his long and fulfilling career in the power generation industry, starting in operations, then transitioning to Environmental, Health & Safety.
Areas of Expertise
OSHA Regulations
Safety Management
- OSHA Recordkeeping & Reporting
- Emergency Action & Response Plans
- Fire Protection Systems
- Life Safety Codes
Walking & Working Surfaces - Personal Protective Equipment
- HAZCOMM & HAZWOPER
- Hearing Conservation
- Respiratory Protection
- Lockout/Tagout
- Permit-Required Confined Spaces
- Process Safety Management
- Electric Power Generation
- Electrical Safety
- Safety Management Systems
- Written Safety Programs
- Compliance & Program Audits
- Site Safety Inspections
- Incident Investigation & RCA
- Safety Training
- Safety Culture
- Safety Strategy
- Contractor Management
- Management of Change
