Wesley L. Wheeler, SMP, CESCP, MSP is the National Electrical Contractor Association, (NECA), Executive Director of Safety. Wesley joined NECA in 2014 and has over 46 years of electrical experience.

Wesley graduated electrical apprenticeship in Jacksonville, FL and has been a member of IBEW LU 177 since 1984. Wesley is a BCSP Safety Management Specialist, an NFPA Certified Electrical Safety Compliance Professional, and a NASP Master Safety Professional. Wesley Serves on the CIASP, Construction Industry Alliance for Suicide Prevention, Board of Trustees.

Prior to NECA, he was safety consultant in his own business, Wheeler Safety Services, Inc. and has been a Safety Director and OSHA Safety trainer for a large industrial based electrical contractor in Florida. Wesley is a qualified OSHA Construction Outreach Instructor and has assisted in OSHA Instructor classes for Electrical Training Alliance, (etA, formerly known as the NJATC). He also has assisted etA in textbook development contributing to their OSHA workbooks. Wesley has served in many capacities in his career from electrician, foreman, superintendent, estimator, project manager to safety director and is a former member of OSHA’s Advisory Committee on Construction Safety and Health (ACCSH). He also has a Florida State Certified Electrical Contractor License and has also served on the NECA Codes and Standards committee for the since 2008 representing NECA on the NEC-NFPA 70 Code Panels 6 and 7 and was member of the NFPA 70E Committee for the 2018 and 2021 editions.

Wesley brings a unique, overall perspective to his position. Wesley is also a trained First Aid/BLS instructor, a Department of Labor Mine Safety Health Administration Instructor, and has had OSHA General Industry Outreach Trainer credentials from University of South Florida.