Our Team

Wayne Donnelly - President

Wayne is New Heights Industries President and has over thirty-six years of experience working at heights and in confined space operations. He has been extensively involved with the assessment, development and implementation of various fall protection, confined space entry, rescue and scaffold programs and training courses for more than eighteen years.

Prior to forming New Heights Industries Inc. Wayne managed the technical training delivery department for a major railway in Western Canada. His responsibilities included the coordination and delivery of various technical and safety training courses and programs to internal clients throughout Western Canada.

Today, after more than sixteen years of providing valuable training and consulting services to customers across Canada and the US, he leads a team of highly trained and dedicated professionals whose goals are the same as his: to provide our customers with the professional support they need to prevent occupational injury from falls from heights, confined space entry and scaffold operations.

In addition to his commitment to New Heights, Wayne sits on the CSA Technical Committee for Fall Protection (Z259) as an associate member and Chair of the Z259.17 sub-committee for the selection and use of active fall protection equipment, is the Vice-Chair and voting member on the CSA Committee for the Code of Practice for Access Scaffold (Z797-09) and is the Vice-Chair and voting member on the CSA Committee for the Management of Work in Confined Spaces (Z1006-10).

Korene Donnelly - General Manager & Sales

Korene is New Heights Industries General Manager. She has over 25 years of experience in business as a manager, as the owner of numerous businesses, and as an entrepreneur.

Korene understands all aspects of workplace safety from being a business owner, manager, and worker, and has also seen the alternate side to safety as she is a licensed Paramedic and worked in Northwestern Ontario for 15 years and has attended to many workplace injuries. While living in British Columbia she was also a Level 3 First Aider for 3 years and was in the BCIT Occupational Health and Safety Program.

Because of her intense background in business and safety, when Korene joined New Heights five years ago her entrepreneur side kicked in again and she saw the need to build on and expand the business. With the expansion, Korene and Wayne envisioned the need for a training facility that would give not only our instructors a better opportunity to fulfill the students needs but the opportunity for the students to experience a training experience like nowhere else.

Korene and Wayne developed that vision together and created the new home of New Heights Industries which includes theory classrooms and practical areas that give the students a ceiling height of 20 feet to perform hands on exercises to get the real feel of using the equipment and practicing what they learned in the classroom

Bruce Waterer - Senior Instructor, Consultant

Bruce comes to New Heights with more than thirty years of work experience in the railway industry, with more than fifteen years in safety, developing programs in fall protection, emergency response and scaffolding for a major railway in Canada.

After leaving the railway in 1996 Bruce pursued a successful career in consulting services specializing in fall protection assessments, accident investigation and other related safety programs.

Bruce provides a high level of instruction for scaffolding, fall protection and rescue, lockout, confined space and rescue, ladder safety, trenching and excavation, WHMIS, fork lift, aerial work platform and respiratory protection applications.

Don Reed - Instructor, Consultant

Don joined New Heights Industries in June of 2004. Prior to that Don provided instruction via a number of high profile training organizations and was the technical sales manager for a major manufacturer of aerial delivery equipment.

Don is an authorized OSHA instructor and an IRATA certified rope technician. He brings more than a decade of experience in fall protection, confined space operations and rescue. He holds a BA from the University of Montclair and numerous professional certifications.

Don provides instruction for confined space, fall protection, trenching and excavation, respiratory protection, lockout and tower climbing and rescue.

Mark Fawley - Instructor

Mark has been a valuable member of the New Heights instructional and customer service team since 2008.

In addition to being a Certified Construction Safety Officer (CSO), Mark also brings over twenty years of work experience in the construction and maintenance industries, with more than ten years in developing, implementing, and applying safety programs and procedures.

Mark provides professional instruction in fall protection and rescue, confined space entry and rescue, lockout, WHMIS and ladder safety and well as other related topics.

Rodney Eskelson - Instructor

Rod joined New Heights with several years of experience working in various positions in the building construction industry as well as the petroleum industry doing meter calibration and tank and line testing. He taught for many years and holds a BEd degree from Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska. He has six years of experience as an IT Support Specialist.

Rod provides instruction for fall protection and rescue, confined space and ladder safety.

Beverley Drobot - Instructor

Bev is the newest Instructor to the New Heights family. Previously to joining us she was a safety co-ordinator for some large construction companies in Manitoba. Bev holds certifications as a COR Construction Safety Officer (CSO), a Workplace Health and Safety Auditor, an ISO 9001/TL9000 Internal Auditor, and is a Registered COR Auditor, and has a degree in Business Administration.

Bev provides instruction for confined space, fall protection, respiratory protection, WHMIS, lockout, and ladder safety.

Cortney Obirek - Receptionist

Cortney is busy putting her smiling face and years of experience at a large communication company to work with us to create a cordial and efficient environment in our front office. She is a graduate of West Kildonan Collegiate right here in Winnipeg. Cortney is actively involved with our program and has taken or participated in several of our courses.