Registered Professional Industrial Hygienist and Expert Witness (1397)
Expertise
Registered professional industrial hygienist specializing in OSHA employee exposure assessments, air sampling, indoor air quality and sick building syndrome.
RPIH performs mold hazard evaluation and noise exposure assessments.
Expert witness regarding OSHA compliance, confined space entry, asbestos building surveys, and accidents and illnesses.
Experience
Independent Consultant, RPIH, 1985 - Present
Field industrial hygienist. Conducted surveys of Federal GSA buildings in 5 states, for indoor air quality and asbestos hazard evaluation.
Supervised asbestos abatement monitoring for Maryland state universities, state-owned buildings, and private clients.
Expert witness in environmental an occupational safety and health cases.
Surveyed major building complexes, and wrote asbestos abatement plans and contract specifications for removal of asbestos, for larger than one million square feet floorspace.
Indoor air quality and asbestos hazard evaluation, evaluating health hazards from lead, asbestos, mold, and environmental contaminants, and planning and monitoring abatement of such hazards.
Oneil Banks, Inc., Chief Field Hygienist, 1984 - 1985
Performed field investigations of occupational safety and health hazards; advised clients of hazard abatement methods, trained employees in safe work practices.
Conducted Maryland State-approved asbestos worker training classes; conducted asbestos hazard evaluations and performed bulk asbestos surveys for governmental and private clients at over 150 buildings.
Independent Consulting, Industrial Hygienist 1982 - 1984
Federal OSHA 7-C1 on-site consultation, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
Advised companies of OSHA standards and methods of hazard abatement.
L.J. Nadwodny, Inc. , Safety Director, 1981 - 1982
Supervised safety at hundreds of industrial operations in chemical and petroleum plants, involving hazardous materials, safety and health evaluation, and management.
Maryland Occupational Safety and Health, 1979 - 1981
Investigated industrial facilities and construction sites; evaluated respiratory protection, safe work practices, ventilation systems, hazardous materials handling; compliance with OSHA standards; measured airborne concentrations of hazardous materials.
Baltimore County Health Department, 1970 - 1979
Division of Air Pollution and Industrial Hygiene, Inspection of industrial and commercial facilities,
Investigated companies for compliance with EPA regulations.
Education
B.S., Zoology, Michigan State University
RPIH, Registered Professional Industrial Hygienist, Association of Professional Industrial Hygienists