
Members Board of Directors Management Meeting Schedule Associate Members Services	IMUA Training Staff IMUA's professional training staff is comprised of four contractual trainers- all of whom are knowledgeable and well-versed in Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and other industry-approved safe work practices, programs and procedures. With nearly 150 years of combined classroom and hands-on instruction experience in electric and natural gas utility field operations, IMUA's four Safety Training Instructors offer a depth and level of diversity that is based upon a firm foundation of management, supervisory and hands-on experience in the public power, investor-owned utility (IOU) and rural electric cooperative industries. Dennis Swan Villa Grove, IL Lou DeLaby Springfield, IL Ed Scott Benld, IL Lynn Mullins Princeton, IL Dennis Swan A native of Pana, Illinois, Swan retired after a nearly 40-year career with the former Central Illinois Public Service Co. (CIPS), now Ameren Illinois. His last position at Ameren was as the Safety Supervisor for Division IV, headquartered in Champaign. Throughout his career, he has served as a lineman, line-crew foreman, customer service representative, area operations supervisor and division electric and natural gas construction supervisor. A graduate of Southern Illinois University’s VOTECH School of Aviation and the ALBAT Lineman Apprenticeship Training Program (LATP), Swan also attended Parkland College in Champaign. He is a certified First Aid/CPR/AED instructor through the National Safety Counsel (NSC). He was instrumental in the establishment of SafeStart, a new safety program for Ameren employees designed specifically to reduce that utility’s overall accident, injury and illness rate. He also served as co-architect of Ameren’s Field (Operations) Safety Manual, the equivalent of the APPA’s Safety Manual, the latter of which is considered by many to be the “safety bible” of the public power industry. Lou Delaby Lou joined IMUA as a contractual trainer in May of 2018 following his retirement from a nearly 40-year career with the Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative (RECC) headquartered in Auburn. Prior to his retirement, he served as RECC’s Manager of Operations and Line Maintenance and as a Groundman in the cooperative’s Electric Line Department. In 1976, he became a Journeyman Lineman, learning the skills of overhead and underground electrical systems. He went on to work as a Serviceman for six years, installing meters and security lights. During his career at RECC, DeLaby served as a member of the Job Training and Safety Committee for the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives (AIEC) based in Springfield. He also has completed various National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) management and safety-related training programs, both OSHA 10-Hour and 30-Hour General Industry courses and is a Certified Loss Control professional. Ed Scott A native of Benld, Ed joined the IMUA Safety & Training Team in early June 2020 as a contractual safety-training instructor. An experienced safety and training professional with more than 40 years of hands-on utility field-operations background, Ed most recently served (now retired) as gas-operations superintendent and trainer for former IMUA Associate Member Donco, LLC, in Edwardsville, now known as Utilitra. He also is a retired Ameren employee with nearly 35 years of utility field operations, construction, management and hands-on training experience, including natural gas-crew and electric lineman training and Flagger Training & Certification. He also is a certified natural gas Operator Qualification (OQ) trainer. Ed earned an Associate Degree in Utility Distribution Technology-Gas & Electric from Richland Community College in Decatur and holds numerous training designations, including certified First Aid/CPR/AED instructor; OSHA 10, 30 and 50-Hour Course training; American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) Certified/Registered Traffic Control Flagger Instructor; certified competent person trainer; Forklift Operation instructor; Smith Driver and Safestart Program driving instructor; and certified CDL trainer. Lynn Mullins A U.S. Air Force veteran, Lynn (Moon) Mullins served in the Civil Engineering Division as an External Electrical Lineman. While enlisted, Moon was deployed to Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Storm, as well as Korea, Kuwait and Central and South America. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in 1999 with over 21 years of service. After his retirement, he went to work as a Line Foreman for City of Sullivan, IL Electric Department before moving to Princeton, IL where he worked for the past 23 years as a Journeyman Lineman constructing and maintaining distribution systems, substation maintenance technician, and fiberoptic communication distribution for SCADA systems and commercial applications.

IMUA Training Staff

IMUA's professional training staff is comprised of four contractual trainers- all of whom are knowledgeable and well-versed in Illinois Department of Labor (IDOL), Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) and other industry-approved safe work practices, programs and procedures. With nearly 150 years of combined classroom and hands-on instruction experience in electric and natural gas utility field operations, IMUA's four Safety Training Instructors offer a depth and level of diversity that is based upon a firm foundation of management, supervisory and hands-on experience in the public power, investor-owned utility (IOU) and rural electric cooperative industries.

Dennis Swan

Villa Grove, IL

Lou DeLaby

Springfield, IL

Ed Scott

Benld, IL

Lynn Mullins

Princeton, IL

Dennis Swan

A native of Pana, Illinois, Swan retired after a nearly 40-year career with the former Central Illinois Public Service Co. (CIPS), now Ameren Illinois. His last position at Ameren was as the Safety Supervisor for Division IV, headquartered in Champaign. Throughout his career, he has served as a lineman, line-crew foreman, customer service representative, area operations supervisor and division electric and natural gas construction supervisor.

A graduate of Southern Illinois University’s VOTECH School of Aviation and the ALBAT Lineman Apprenticeship Training Program (LATP), Swan also attended Parkland College in Champaign. He is a certified First Aid/CPR/AED instructor through the National Safety Counsel (NSC). He was instrumental in the establishment of SafeStart, a new safety program for Ameren employees designed specifically to reduce that utility’s overall accident, injury and illness rate. He also served as co-architect of Ameren’s Field (Operations) Safety Manual, the equivalent of the APPA’s Safety Manual, the latter of which is considered by many to be the “safety bible” of the public power industry.

Lou Delaby

Lou joined IMUA as a contractual trainer in May of 2018 following his retirement from a nearly 40-year career with the Rural Electric Convenience Cooperative (RECC) headquartered in Auburn. Prior to his retirement, he served as RECC’s Manager of Operations and Line Maintenance and as a Groundman in the cooperative’s Electric Line Department. In 1976, he became a Journeyman Lineman, learning the skills of overhead and underground electrical systems. He went on to work as a Serviceman for six years, installing meters and security lights.

During his career at RECC, DeLaby served as a member of the Job Training and Safety Committee for the Association of Illinois Electric Cooperatives (AIEC) based in Springfield. He also has completed various National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA) management and safety-related training programs, both OSHA 10-Hour and 30-Hour General Industry courses and is a Certified Loss Control professional.

Ed Scott

A native of Benld, Ed joined the IMUA Safety & Training Team in early June 2020 as a contractual safety-training instructor. An experienced safety and training professional with more than 40 years of hands-on utility field-operations background, Ed most recently served (now retired) as gas-operations superintendent and trainer for former IMUA Associate Member Donco, LLC, in Edwardsville, now known as Utilitra. He also is a retired Ameren employee with nearly 35 years of utility field operations, construction, management and hands-on training experience, including natural gas-crew and electric lineman training and Flagger Training & Certification. He also is a certified natural gas Operator Qualification (OQ) trainer.

Ed earned an Associate Degree in Utility Distribution Technology-Gas & Electric from Richland Community College in Decatur and holds numerous training designations, including certified First Aid/CPR/AED instructor; OSHA 10, 30 and 50-Hour Course training; American Traffic Safety Services Association (ATSSA) Certified/Registered Traffic Control Flagger Instructor; certified competent person trainer; Forklift Operation instructor; Smith Driver and Safestart Program driving instructor; and certified CDL trainer.

Lynn Mullins

A U.S. Air Force veteran, Lynn (Moon) Mullins served in the
Civil Engineering Division as an External Electrical Lineman. While enlisted,
Moon was deployed to Saudi Arabia during Desert Shield/Storm, as well as Korea,
Kuwait and Central and South America. He retired from the U.S. Air Force in
1999 with over 21 years of service.

After his retirement, he went to work as a Line Foreman for
City of Sullivan, IL Electric Department before moving to Princeton, IL where
he worked for the past 23 years as a Journeyman Lineman constructing and
maintaining distribution systems, substation maintenance technician, and
fiberoptic communication distribution for SCADA systems and commercial
applications.