Sr. INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE ENGINEER

Expert Witness No. 696

Virginia

OSHASafetyIndustrial HygieneToxic Tort

Asbestos

Confined Space Entry

OSHA Regulations Hazard Communication

Chemical Exposure

Lead Silica

Respirators

Sick Building Syndrome

PSM Electrical; Ventilation; Environmental; Hazardous Metals.

 Qualifications:

·     Federal & State Court Qualified Expert Witness

·     22 years service with Dupont as Consultant, Safety/Health

·     3 Years service with Virginia OSHA, Compliance Officer

·     Plaintiff or Defense 

Assistance:

·     Seasoned Expert Witness

·     Pre-Litigation Case Evaluation

·     Case Preparation and Interrogatory Assistance

·     Intensive Library & Research Capabilities

·     Gathering & Consolidating Statistical data 

·     Work Exposure Monitoring, Research & Estimations

·     Trial, Depositions, Mediations, Arbitration 

Education:

·     Masters & Ph.D Environmental Engineering--Drexel Univ.

·     Registered Environmental Manger

·     Certif. Industrial Hygienist; Cert. Hazardous Materials Manager

·     Certified Healthcare Safety Professional

EMPLOYMENT

F-S Consulting                             

Industrial Hygiene & Safety Engineer / Loss Control Consultant

Audit Virginia Municipalities for compliance with OSHA’s industrial hygiene and safety programs. Monitor for chemicals, noise, heat stress etc. Develop or upgrade programs where necessary. Write evaluation and recommended plan of action program. Assess needs, develop and conduct regional training, compliance workshops, and Train The Trainer programs as needed. Compile, analyze and present loss control statistics and develop reduction goals and strategies. Member of accident investigation team.. State technical and resource person. Liaison with many state agencies, DEQ, OSHA/DOLI, General Services, Emergency Services etc.

 Virginia Dept of Labor, Richmond Central Region1996 to 1999

Senior Industrial Hygiene Compliance Officer

Conduct physical inspections of workplaces to determine compliance with industrial hygiene health standards. Examine employer industrial hygiene health program and records. Observe employee work environments for potential industrial hygiene issues. Conduct personal and area monitoring for air contaminants, toxic chemicals, noise levels, heat stress, radiation, nuisance dusts,. Indoor Air Quality Issues, bioaerosols , bacteriological, and all other industrial hygiene hazards. Calibrate and use equipment to sample for all of the above toxics. Recommend engineering controls and abatement procedures. Issue citations where appropriate. Conduct follow‑up inspections to monitor employer compliance. Provide consultation and training to employers, employees, and the general public regarding interpretations, requirements, and various means of complying with OSHA standards. Teach basic industrial hygiene training courses to management, supervisors, and employees on hazard recognition, evaluation and control. Technical instructor and state technical contact, within VAOSH, for confined space, noise, respirators, sampling methodology and regional contact for State Analytical Lab. Supervised the calibrated air monitoring equipment, both pre-use, annual or at manufacturers recommended frequencies. In charge of regional VAOSH reference library.  Set up statistical program for analyzing monitoring data. Familiar with all types of monitoring equipment for toxics, noise, heat stress, radiation and confined space entry. Inspected both general industry and construction sites for compliance with applicable 1910. or 1926. Standards. 

E. I. duPont de Nemours & Co. Textile Fibers Dept. Richmond, Va.,Aug 1992 to 1996

Senior Safety, Health & Environmental Affairs Engineer

One of five team members comprising Spruance's Safety Health and Environmental Engineering group. Lead team player for SARA Title III, OSHA Health Regulations, Asbestos, Spill Response Program, TSCA, Right To Know, CDTA, MSDS program & Clean Air Act. Functioned as a team member to handle all industrial hygiene matters, water, waste handling, underground storage tanks, remediation programs for water and asbestos etc. Served all six of the product areas at Dupont's largest plant site. Prepared budgets and supervised technicians responsible for monitoring. Served as adjunct industrial hygiene consultant for the three other Virginia sites. Worked with the sites shutdown of the site power plant and assimilation of services by CoGentrix. Over saw asbestos removal and demolition of site stacks, site facility etc. Helped indoctrinate onsite contractors / sub contractors in Dupont’s safety and health philosophy and expectations. Audited contractor performance, wrote health and safety requirements into bid specs, participated in contractor bid interviews and bid decisions.

 E.I du Pont de Nemours & Co, Inc., Textile Fibers DepartmentApril 1982 To Aug 1992

Senior Industrial Hygiene Engineer

Site industrial hygiene engineer for Dupont’s largest, most diversified textile fibers plant. Supervision of plant industrial hygiene programs as well as actual participation in the engineering solutions to industrial hygiene problems. Responsibility for developing & updating company safety and health standards, Conducted site chemical, noise, safety, ventilation, and industrial hygiene audit surveys. Set up and monitored site asbestos identification and removal program. Evaluated that data and, when needed, made engineering or administrative recommendations. Developed & conducted site Hazards Communication Programs, including development of computerized MSDS program. Setup Respirator Maintenance and Fit Testing Programs. Prepared and conducted many training programs on safety and health programs. Managed programs, budgets and technicians that would assist in personal and area monitoring programs,. Served as Senior Industrial Hygiene Engineer for six different on site manufacturing plants ‑ Kevlar, Nylon, Tyvek, Nylon, Nomex and Mylar. Worked with site powerhouse, waste treatment facilities, site incinerator, and chlorine purification system. Applied TRACE software program to Sara Title III requirements for off site plume analysis of all potential chemical off site releases. Put together community alert, receptor notification system and community response plan required under SARA. Team player in preparation of SARA’s yearly Tier I & II and Form R inventory submissions. Site technical consultant for all product areas as well as other Dupont sites in Virginia. Developed program to replace chlorine with hypochlorite disinfect ion process.

 E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., Inc, Haskell Labs.Newark DE Aug. 1974 To Apr. 1982

Senior Consultant, Industrial Hygiene

Conducted research on several industrial hygiene problems to assist in the development of corporate industrial hygiene policies. As Industrial Hygienist, trained and supervised new hire industrial hygienists during a 2-year orientation prior to their placement at a Dupont plant site. Served as senior consultant for all Dupont sites. Directed junior hygienists in their corporate work. Served on ASTM, ANSI and OSHA standards writing committees. Developed technical manuals for corporate programs on Asbestos, Lead, Respirators, Monitoring Statistics, Fit testing of respirators, etc. Conducted research and developed programs for the semi-quantitative fit testing of respirator. Known as the Iso-Amyl Acetate, Saccharin or Irritant Smoke tests. Protocols developed have become OSHA law and are now included in all applicable standards and in the Respirator standard 1910.134 itself. Conducted research on beards and fit, statistical analysis of sampling, fit factors on respirators etc. See following list of papers published or presented at AIHA conferences.

 PUBLICATIONS / PRESENTATIONS

 Available upon request