Representative Projects

Construction Industry

• Performed a construction gap analysis for a Fortune 500 biotech firm with sites located in California, Washington, Colorado, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico. 
• Performed contractor safety assessment during the painting of the containment dome of a nuclear operating company located in Ohio.
• Performed an industrial hygiene air-sampling study and related litigation support involving a fatality that occurred inside a water tower in Minnesota.
• Performed a construction site assessment in Pennsylvania and provided related litigation support involving welding inside confined spaces.
• Performed safety planning and management oversight for a project involving weld repairs and modifications to wind tunnels (coated with lead-based paint) at a NASA facility in California. 
• Solved a 45-year fall protection hazard for a water tower painting contractor.
• Authored various corporate safety and occupational health standards.
• Created an air-sampling database consisting of over 600 data points of various analytes.
• Provided OSHA training and safety training as and OSHA-authorized instructor to various construction clients.

Insurance Industry

• Managed a staff of loss control consultants who efficiently serviced multiple loss control workers’ compensation programs, which resulted in a loss ratio of 24% for the combined programs and used only 36% of the risk control budget. Services included providing loss control surveys, providing OSHA training, safety training, and related loss control services.
• Reviewed mold applications and supporting reports/documentation and performed site assessments for insurance underwriters to evaluate and analyze the risk of mold claims for the applicants’ portfolios.
• Performed environmental risk assessment surveys for a wide variety of clients (including contractors, chemical facilities, hospitals, environmental facilities, environmental services firms, warehouses, manufacturers, and storage facilities)
• Performed risk assessment surveys (involving multiple lines of insurance coverage) and safety training for a wide variety of clients.
• Peer reviewed various industrial hygiene and safety reports (including indoor air quality assessments, microbial assessments, noise exposure assessments, air-sampling surveys, safety programs, and audit reports) and OSHA training programs.

General Industry

• Performed a baseline management systems safety and health audit prior to the implementation of a behavior-based safety process and provided occupational health sampling surveys for a billion-dollar manufacturer of diesel-operated equipment.
• Cost-effectively characterized and evaluated carbon monoxide (CO) concentrations (using direct-reading instruments and statistical methods) at a regional distribution center for a $5 billion major appliance manufacturer.
• Provided OSHA training pertaining to confined space entry for a manufactuerer of building materials.
• Performed multiple safety and health gap assessments and industrial hygiene exposure assessments for a nationwide manufacturer of building materials. 

Government and Municipalities

• Conducted a fatality investigation involving the death of an 11-year old boy at a solid waste transfer station located in California. 
• Investigated an incident (resulting in serious head injuries) that occurred at a compost site in Texas and provided expert witness testimony related to the incident.
• Developed indoor air quality and bioaerosol sampling strategies to investigate occupant complaints at a state prison in California.