TAKE THE LEAD 2021 AWARD RECIPIENT
Dona File, M.S. Corporate Safety Director L.F. Driscoll
Dona File has been a union carpenter for 40 years, working for the L.F. Driscoll Company since 1987 and as Corporate Safety Director for LFD since 1992. In her tenure, she has developed and sustained three OSHA Voluntary Protection Program jobsites and six OSHA Partnership sites. She has been the champion of LFD’s behavior-based safety culture known as Safety 360. In her career, she has served on several ANSI committees and assisted in writing chapters in the pre-eminent book on fall protection: 4th edition of Introduction to Fall Protection, by Nigel Ellis, Ph.D. Dona is the Founder and first ten-year President of the Mid-Atlantic Construction Safety Council, which started with 3 members and now touts over 203! She is an American Society of Healthcare Engineers Certified Healthcare Constructor, Curriculum Director of LFD 30 Hour Healthcare Construction Course and OSHA 30 Hour Construction Instructor. Dona is the recipient of OSHA’s Region III Coin for Safety Achievement, Commitment and Professionalism. Dona obtained her associate degree in Construction from Spring Garden College, her undergraduate degree in Sociology from Slippery Rock State College (now University), and her graduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania in Organizational Dynamics. Dona was a Girl Scout, starting as a Brownie. She continued on through Seniors and Campus Girl Scouts, earning her First Class, now known as the Gold Award. In 2005, Dona was recruited to serve on the Girl Scouts of Philadelphia Property Committee. As the Councils merged, Dona stayed on the Property Committee, assisting in selecting the Owner’s Representative, Architectural Firm and Contractors for the Camp Development phase. In 2013, Dona became a Board Member of GSEP.
15