National Trench Safety Hires Veteran Trainer Wendell Wood

National Trench Safety has hired Wendell Wood, an experienced trench safety veteran, to join its customer training division.

Michael Roth

Oct. 2, 2015

Wendell Wood has more than three decades of experience in trench safety product application sales distribution and training — Wendell Wood has more than three decades of experience in trench safety product application, sales, distribution and training.

National Trench Safety has hired Wendell Wood, an experienced trench safety veteran, to join its customer training division. NTS, based in Houston, specializes in rental and sales of trench and traffic safety equipment, trench and traffic safety engineering, and OSHA-compliant training classes.

National Trench Safety has continually placed a premium on offering its customers a comprehensive, high quality training program, under the leadership of director of training Mario Vasquez.

Wood is one of the most experienced and well-known individuals within the trench safety industry, said Ron Chilton, president of NTS. He has more than three decades of experience, including product sales specialist, product application specialist, distribution manager and safety trainer. Wood has worked with the Excavation Safety Standard since the early 1980s, having conducted training programs with Dr. Jack Mickle, one of the primary authors of the standard. Wood has also served as an expert representative before congressional hearings on the Excavation Safety Standard.

NTS operates 26 coast to coast branch locations in the United States.

About the Author

Michael Roth

Editor

Michael Roth has covered the equipment rental industry full time for RER since 1989 and has served as the magazine’s editor in chief since 1994. He has nearly 30 years experience as a professional journalist. Roth has visited hundreds of rental centers and industry manufacturers, written hundreds of feature stories for RER and thousands of news stories for the magazine and its electronic newsletter RER Reports. Roth has interviewed leading executives for most of the industry’s largest rental companies and manufacturers as well as hundreds of smaller independent companies. He has visited with and reported on rental companies and manufacturers in Europe, Central America and Asia as well as Mexico, Canada and the United States. Roth was co-founder of RER Reports, the industry’s first weekly newsletter, which began as a fax newsletter in 1996, and later became an online newsletter. Roth has spoken at conventions sponsored by the American Rental Association, Associated Equipment Distributors, California Rental Association and other industry events and has spoken before industry groups in several countries. He lives and works in Los Angeles when he’s not traveling to cover industry events.