Safe Performance Center Team Members Cover the Base (l-r): JaCorey Murray, Chuck Teeters, Amanda Olson, and Travis Herod The Watco Safe Performance Center (SPC) in Fairfield, Alabama, provides safety instruction for locomotive engineers and conductors, team members working in maintenance of way, and those working in railcar repair, as well as other safety and leadership training for all Watco. This is the second in a series of Dispatch articles introducing team members at the center. Travis Herod Travis Herod, who has served as senior vice president of Environmental Health and Safety for eight years, manages all activities at the SPC. Prior to that, he was a safety director and regional safety manager. He started with Watco at the Stillwater Central Railroad in 2004. Herod holds industry safety certificates that include Master Safety Professional (MSP) through the National Association of Safety Professionals (NASP), and a Certificate in Safety Management through the American Society of Safety Professionals (ASSP). In 2020, he was named the American Short Line and Regional Railroads Association Safety Professional of the Year.
6 The Dispatch | April 2022
