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.
- 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.
- Federal OSHA 7-C1 on-site consultation, Pennsylvania and New Hampshire.
- Advised companies of OSHA standards and methods of hazard abatement.
- Supervised safety at hundreds of industrial operations in chemical and petroleum plants, involving hazardous materials, safety and health evaluation, and management.
- 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.
- 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