INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE / OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH & SAFETY
REPRESENTATIVE PROJECT EXPERIENCE
As an industrial hygiene compliance officer for federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for 8 years, conducted more than 250 worker exposure assessments in a variety of manufacturing, construction industry, and federal agency workplaces. These included foundries, welding and metal fabrication operations, automotive manufacturers, breweries, tanneries, paint manufacturing, abrasive blasting operations, electroplating, construction sites (both new construction and renovation), and others, to evaluate workplace health hazards and determine compliance with applicable OSHA regulations.
Project manager for industrial hygiene exposure monitoring and consulting services assisting manufacturer to achieve compliance with OSHA’s new standard for hexavalent chromium.
“Wall-to-wall” industrial hygiene survey of a large foundry over a two-month period to identify potential health hazards and determine compliance with applicable OSHA regulations. Investigation included visual observations, communications with management and labor representatives, and sampling and analysis of airborne contaminants including silica, various organic solvents, lead, welding and other metal fumes, and noise. Samples were collected using direct reading instruments, solid sorbent media, and filter membranes.
Exposure assessments of construction workers during demolition of a roadway viaduct in a large urban area; workers were using acetylene torches to cut large sections of painted steel beams. Investigation was conducted in response to reports from a local hospital emergency room of workers with symptoms of acute lead poisoning including abdominal cramping, nausea, and vomiting. Breathing zone samples for airborne lead collected during torch cutting activities showed concentrations more than 16 times higher than the contemporaneous permissible exposure limit for lead.
Industrial hygiene / loss control audits in a variety of industrial workplaces including employee exposure assessments as well as review of written safety and health programs, ongoing and historical industrial hygiene monitoring data, and medical records, to assess relative risk to various chemicals, particulates, and physical agents.
Developed, wrote, and reviewed respiratory and other personal protective equipment, and hearing conservation programs for various industrial and commercial employers.
Provided industrial hygiene consulting services to a small, urban hospital, including (1) monitoring of ethylene oxide (EtO) exposures in the sterilization, processing and distribution area, including 8-hr time-weighted average and short-term “worst case” conditions; and (2) chemical spill response services in the hospital’s MRI unit.
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