Experience

OSHA/SAFETY/LITIGATION EXPERT:  Expert witness, Experience in domestic and international technical safety, industrial hygiene, and environmental programs include Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OHSA) compliance, OSHA safety, OSHA industrial hygiene, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) compliance, Expert witness, Expert consultant, Occupational health, Industrial hygiene, Indoor air pollution, Mold, and Environmental projects in public and private industry.  Industries serviced include law firms, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, medical devices manufacturers, shipyards, public utilities, petroleum transportation, mining, aviation, and research facilities.

CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES

• Certified Safety Professional (CSP), BCSP, 1978 (#5290)
  
• Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), ABIH, 1976 (#1034)
  
• Registered Professional Engineer (PE), California, 1977 (#SF1501)
  
• Licensed Texas Mold Assessment Consultant, 2004, #MAC0178
  
• Professional Safety Source (PSS), Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, 1991
  
• Field Safety Representative #93469 (FSR), Texas Workers’ Compensation Commission, 1993
  
• Certified Environmental, Safety and Health Trainer (CET), 28-359, 05/31/2011, Inactive
  
• MSHA Approved Surface Mine Safety and Health Trainer, Inactive
  
• OSHA Authorized Trainer for 10-hour and 30-hour General Industry Safety Training, Inactive

EDUCATION

• Master of Science, Environmental Health Engineering, University of Cincinnati.
  
• Bachelor of Science, Chemistry/Biology, University of Alabama.
  
• MBA course of study, University of North Alabama.
  
• Technical courses continuing education for recertification of licenses and certifications.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

• Board of Certified Safety Professionals (BCSP).
  
• American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Inactive.
  • Past President Pensacola Chapter.
  • Past Vice President of Pensacola Chapter.
    
• American Academy of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH).
  
• North Texas Section, American Industrial Hygiene Association.
  • Past Director, North Texas Section AIHA.
    
• American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA), Inactive.
  • Past AIHA Membership Committee.
  • Past AIHA Laboratory Accreditation Committee.
  • Past AIHA Public Relations Committee.
  • Board Liaison to the AIHA Governmental Affairs Committee.
  • Past Secretary/Treasurer, Florida AIHA Section.
    
• American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH), Inactive.
  • Past Secretary/Treasurer and Board Member.
  • Past editor of ACGIH Applied Occupational Health and Environmental Hygiene Journal.
    
• Past Guest lecturer, OSHA Training Institute.
  
• Past Visiting Professor Instructor of Industrial Hygiene, George Washington University School of Medicine.
  
• Guest lecturer, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Civil Engineering.
  
• Guest lecturer, Texas A&M (Corpus Christi campus), Environmental/Industrial Hygiene.
  
• Adjunct Instructor, Texas A & M Extension System (TEEX), Mesquite, Texas.
  
• Consulting projects with Meridian Research, Inc., for OSHA Rule making surveys and research.

WORK EXPERIENCE

• Principal, Environmental & Occupational Health Strategies (EOHS), Palmer, Texas, 1990 – Current
  
• Senior Project Manager, ATC ASSOCIATES, INC., Carrollton, Texas, 2004 — 2005
  
• Senior Loss Control Consultant, NJ & ASSOCIATES, INC., Flower Mount, Texas, 2003 – 2004
  
• Senior Consultant, RIMKUS CONSULTING GROUP, INC., Irving, Texas 2000 2002
  
• Industrial Hygienist, DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS, DALLAS MEDICAL CENTER, Dallas, Texas, 1998 – 2000
  
• Corporate Safety and Health Director, Alcon Laboratories Pharmaceutical, Fort Worth, Texas, 1987 — 1990
  
• Senior Project Manager, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)/JRB Associates, Inc., McLean, Virginia, 1984 – 1987
  
• Manager of OSHA Documentation, Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Muscle Shoals, Alabama, 1980 – 1984
  
• Director of Industrial Hygiene, Charleston, South Carolina, Naval Nuclear Shipyard and Naval Regional Medical Center, Charleston, South Carolina, 1978 – 1980
  
• OSHA Safety and Health Compliance Officer, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), Pensacola, Florida, 1976 – 1978
  
• Assistant Director of Industrial Hygiene, Navy Air Rework Facility (NARF), Naval Air Station, and Navy Aerospace and Regional Medical Center (NARMC), Pensacola, Florida, 1975 — 1976
  
• Environmental Engineer, Naval Ordinance Environmental Health Center, Naval Ammunition Depot, Crane, Indiana and Cincinnati, Ohio, 1970 – 1975
  

Project Experience

Expert Witness and Consultant

• Various expert witness services in OSHA safety and industrial hygiene.

• Houston, Texas for the defendant.  OSHA-type injury from employee falling off cement truck.

• Garland, Texas.  For the plaintiff.  Slip and fall due to produce spill. 

• For the defendant.  Fall from floor of manufactured home being built.  Site visit and written report.

• For the defendant.  Slip and fall in food preparation area.  Site visit and written report.

• Injury to construction employee from concrete pumping boom.

• Injury from fall without fall protection. 

• Death of plaintiff, run over by commercial truck at industrial site.  Site visit and report.

• Plaintiff trip and fall over construction debris as plaintiff left work at Elementary School.

• Plaintiff, et al, injury from mold in an apartment. 

• For the defendant.  Trip and fall with personal injury at gas and convenience store and gas station.

• For the plaintiff. Injury at a gas station due to fire in the manway for super unleaded gasoline. 

• For the defendant.  Apartment complex resident with potential mold exposure.  Retained as non-testifying expert.

• For the defendant.  Plaintiffs fall and injury at defendants’ new home site with plaintiff injury from falling at new house construction site.

• For the defendant.  Plaintiff was hit in the face by trailer door on drilling site in south Texas.

• For the defendant.  Expert witness in toxic exposure to individual exposed to paint vapor and isocyanates during office renovation.

• For the plaintiff.  Expert witness in exposure of mother and daughter to chlorine/chloramines at a hotel swimming pool.

• Expert consultant for construction employee (plaintiff) exposed to metal fumes and particulates during cutting and grinding.

• For the defendant.  Expert consultant for case involving homeowner’s (plaintiff) exposed to particulate matter during grinding and sanding operations for renovation.

• For the plaintiff.  Expert witness for homeowner exposed to generation of toxic gas and vapors during indoor installation of carpeting with hydrocarbon type mastic.

• Expert witness for employee (plaintiff) exposure to hydrogen gas. 

• For the defendant.  Expert witness for Union (defendant) against exposure of employee to hexane (Bestin®) in workers’ comp administrative law hearing.

Safety

• General OSHA safety and environmental services for several clients.

• Review of safety, industrial hygiene, and hazardous waste plans for company conducting hazardous paint removal projects for Federal and state clients.

• System Safety Analysis for Army Corps of Engineers.

• System Safety Analysis for Navy Facilities Engineering Command.

• Contract with University of New Mexico for State OSHA Industrial Hygiene training

• Site Safety and OSHA Compliance Officer for private contractor operating at Naval Base Cutler, Maine, for ultra-high pressure water jetting (removal) of paint containing lead-based-paint and PCB’s.  Responsibilities included classic safety, fall protection, scaffolding, and general construction safety. 

• Was a member of team that negotiated a settlement with OSHA and established a comprehensive program to abate a previous willful citation for exposure to ethylene oxide.

• Registered DOE safety and industrial hygiene consultant with Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORAU/ORISE).

• Department of Energy (DOE) Q-clearance and DOE Tiger Team Progress Assessment Team Member.

• Preparation and teaching, 80 contact hours, System Safety Management Course, U. S. Postal Service Training Academy, Maryland, ~ 1984 U. S.

• Army Corps of Engineers, One of the authors of the tri-service Technical Manual (HNDP 385-3-1), Facility System Safety Program Manual (“FASS Manual”).

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882B (SSPP and Preliminary Hazard List (PHL)/Preliminary Hazard Analysis (PHA), Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, Robotics Hazardous Materials Storage Warehouse.

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882B/OPNAVINST 5100.23B, Naval Air Station Kingsville, Kingsville, Texas, System Safety Program Plan (SSPP)/PHA, Corrosion Control Facility, T-45, T-2, and A-4 Aircraft.

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882C, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, PHL and PHA (SSPP), Engineering Test Facility.

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882C, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, PHL and PHA (SSPP), Avionics Facility.

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882C, Kelly Air Force Base, San Antonio, TX, PHL and PHA (SSPP), ADAL Nondestructive Inspection/X-Ray Facility.

• System Safety Analysis/MILSTD 882C, Naval Training Center, Great Lakes, Illinois, PHL and SSPP, Collocate Dental Research Facilities (Navy and Army Dental Research Laboratory).

• Senior Industrial Hygienist for a two-hospital research and teaching hospital in Dallas and Bonham, Texas.  Environmental duties to include EPA’s CWA, CAA, EPCRTK, TCSC, AHERA, RCRA, etc., and Texas State.

• Joint Commission for Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations audit preparation including Environmental of Care Manual development, implementation, and program maintenance.

• Site Safety and Health Officer, EPA National Priority List (NPL) site (String Fellow, Riverside, California.

• Senior Safety Engineer, EG&G Idaho, Inc., and DOE PMO, Idaho Falls, ID, New Production Reactor Department.

Industrial Hygiene (Bioaerosol)

• General OSHA industrial hygiene services for clients.

• Aerospace sampling of aircraft paint stripping compounds.

• Historical data base entry of industrial hygiene sampling on locomotives for American Association of railroads.

• Bioaerosol sampling for indoor air quality for clients.

• Site Safety and Health Plans (SSHP) for Army Corps Engineers for field environmental investigations

• Consulting contract and projects with U.S. Public Health Service, Center for Disease Control.

• Consulting projects with Meridian Research, Inc. for OSHA Rulemaking surveys and research.

• Environmental permit application projects under Texas Air Control Board for American Airlines.

• Registered consultant/contractor for Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC).

• Over 450 safety, industrial hygiene, Indoor Air Quality, and environmental public building Inspections and surveys.

• Industrial hygiene field training and air sampling for Kerr-McGee Chemical Company.

• Consultant to marine petrochemical bulk hauler, Hollywood Marine, Inc., Houston Ship Canal.

• Asbestos research project for Texaco Pipeline, Inc., pipeline maintenance.

• Asbestos projects for Dyess Air Force Base, Ft. Hood, and various School Boards.

• Lead-in-paint projects for Army Corps of Engineers, Hercules Powder, Ft. Hood, and Ft. McPherson.

• Hazwoper (Hazardous waste) Training for clients.

• Respiratory protection training and respirator fit testing for clients.

• Directed the establishment of a hearing conservation program resulting in 530 first time baseline hearing examinations and establishment of an on-going medical hearing examination program.

Corporate

• Building sciences group senior technical professional for indoor air quality, environmental site assessments, and safety and health projects. Significant interaction with national insurance industry and national clients.

• Managed the bio aerosol (“mold”) business area for Texas by in-house teaching and mentoring to facilitate individuals becoming licensed as Mold Assessment Consultants or Technicians and the company becoming licensed as a Mold Assessment Company with the Texas Department of State Health Services.

• Established and supervised the hazardous solid waste program.

• Established a program to ensure that specific (mercury) waterborne wastes did not enter the sanitary sewer to abate a previous citation resulting in successfully passing a follow-on inspection and annual audits by the City of Fort Worth, Texas.

• Directed the abatement of and received required discharge permits after a previous air pollution citation for unauthorized discharge of “air toxics” over the allowable concentration at the property line.

• Directed the corporate wide gathering of chemical information and filed first time reports  under the USEPA Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act of 1986 (SARA Title III).

• Developed a professional relationship with regulatory agencies and the local industrial community resulting in my election to the Board of the local professional society and establishing communications and networking within the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex.

• Established a corporate and company wide library and participated in regularly published managerial information and briefs on regulatory agency activities, management, and regulations.

• Filed for and was granted co-generation status with the FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COMMISION for a gas turbine allowing the company to sell surplus power to a public utility and gained venture capital credibility.

Asbestos, Lead Abatement, and Hazardous Materials

• Various Lead-In Paint abatement projects of USACOE and NAVFAC at Hercules, Inc., McGregor, TX, and Naval Air Station Dallas, Texas.

• Asbestos AHERA course instructor, University of Texas at Arlington and North American Analytical Lab.

• 2-year, $1 million asbestos risk assessment/management contract, GSA, Washington, DC.

• Hazwoper (hazardous waste worker) Training, 40 hours, 8 hours, and Refresher for clients.

• Respiratory protection training and respirator fit testing for clients.

• Lead training, Texas Iron Workers Apprenticeship Program.

U. S. Department of Energy

• Q-clearance granted November 23, 1991, and held by ORISE.

• Consultant agreement/Task Order contract with ORAU/ORISE.

• Consultant agreement/Task Order contract with EG&G Idaho, Inc.

• DOE National Laboratory Tiger Team Progress Assessments.

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and
• Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL).

• Air sampling, analysis, risk assessment, and abatement process management assessment, Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant under OSHA Rulemaking Assessment contract.

Training

• Practical training of Occupational Health physicians, Navy Environmental Health Center, Cincinnati and the University of Cincinnati.

• Practical training Flight Surgeons, Navy Aerospace and Regional Medical, U. S. Navy, Pensacola, Florida.

• Developed and taught System Safety Management course (80-contact hours) for the U.S. Postal Service Training Academy, Maryland.

• Numerous client training projects including OSHA regulations such as lead, formaldehyde, respiratory protection, and safety and State of Texas regulations:
  • Lead, including lead-based paint
  • Formaldehyde;
  • Respiratory protection;
  • Asbestos;
  • Mold assessment and remediation(Texas);
  • Hazwoper (40, 24, and 8-contact hour courses);
  • Hazcom;
  • Bioaerosols/Mold;
  • OSHA construction Safety; and
  • OSHA general industry Safety.

• Past guest lecturer, OSHA Training Institute, Des Plaines, Illinois.

• Past visiting professor of Industrial Hygiene, George Washington University School of Medicine continuing education, Visiting Professor.

• Past guest lecturer, University of Texas at Arlington, Department of Civil Engineering, CERTS, ES&H Training.

• Past guest lecturer, University of Texas at Arlington, Sweet Center, all regulatory mandated ES&H Training.

• Past guest lecturer, Texas A&M (Corpus Christi campus).

• Past Environmental/Industrial Hygiene. Adjunct Instructor, Texas A & M Engineering Extension System (TEEX).

• Hundreds of ES&H custom training courses for governmental agencies and private clients.

• Past Adjunct professor, Columbia Southern University.

Publications

• Patty’s Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology, Fifth Edition, Vol. III, “Alkaline Materials– Sodium. Potassium, Cesium, Rubidium”, Chapter 46.

• Chapter editor, AIHA, Industrial Hygiene Auditing A Manual For Practice, AIHA.

• Editor on Editorial Review Board, ACGIH, Applied Industrial Hygiene Journal.

• Department of Justice (USDOJ)/Drug Enforcement Agency Washington, DC,  Pocket booklet Procedures for the Safe Handling and Disposal of Chemicals Seized at Foreign Illicit Cocaine Sites.

• Tri-service Technical Manual (HNDP 385-3-1), Facility System Safety Program Manual (“FASS Manual”).

• Numerous reports, technical findings, and audits for various governmental agencies and private clients.