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Expert in Chemicals: Safety, Health, Environmental, Development, Testing, Shipping, and Packaging
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert is a Safety Engineer with over 30 years experience specializing in safety management and engineering. His experiences range from small facility safety management to Corporate Manager of Safety, Loss Control, and Security for an international chemical company and Product/Safety Manager for aerosols. The types of businesses he has served range from highway, steel processing, and power plant construction to manufacturing, chemical plants, business products for injection molding, and retail stores. Expert's other experience includes teaching the industrial safety courses at community colleges and instructing members of the American Society of Safety Engineers in preparation for the Certified Safety Professional national examinations. He has written hundreds of MSDS, reviewed thousands of MSDS for coding and digitizing, and written equipment instruction manuals and labels to comply with FDA and OSHA regulations as well as liability prevention. He achieved 75% reduction in worker's compensation costs for 3 different organizations in 3 years. He has written evaluations and testified for several lawsuits including labels and worker's compensation for both plaintiff and defendant.
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Expert's expertise includes accidents (investigation, reconstruction, and prevention), back injuries, dangerous chemicals, flammables, fire protection and system prevention, lab safety, claims management, workers' machine guarding, multilingual right-to-know training, power processes, forging and foundries, product safety, OSHA-MSHA surveys, risk management, safety and health programs, security, standards and codes, and warning labels. He was selected to the All Ohio Safety Professional-of-the-Year in 1982 by the All Ohio Council of the American Society of Safety Engineers. He most recently was the Safety Engineer at a chemical plant that produces plastic additives using flammable solvents. He was a Compliance Manager for OSHA, EPA, and DOT for a $140 million galvanizing line construction project. Currently he is semi-retired.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise | Localities:
Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Cleveland, Ohio;
Akron, Ohio;
Youngstown, Ohio;
Canton, Ohio;
Lorain, Ohio;
Lakewood, Ohio;
Elyria, Ohio;
Euclid, Ohio;
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania;
and Erie, Pennsylvania.
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1978
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A.B.M.
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Business Management
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University of New Mexico
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1969
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B.S.
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Psychology
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University of Houston
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2000 to 2004
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IMS Company
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Product Development
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Product Manager - Chemicals
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He developed and brought to market four new chemical products: high temperature paste, super slick release agents, natural cleaner, and an improved lubricant.
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1998 to 2000
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Construction Safety Management
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Consultant
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Expert was the site safety manager for building a $140 million dollar zinc coating line.
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1992 to 1998
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Ferro Corporation
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Safety Engineer
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He administered self-insured workers compensation, reducing costs by 85% in four years at a specialty chemical plant with OSHA-targeted chemicals.
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1986 to 1992
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American Safety Training Institute
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Executive Director and Instructor
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Expert was the originator and developer.
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1984 to 1992
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Howsafe Corporation
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President
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Founder and owner of 18 employee safety consulting LLC. Wrote earliest HazCom manuals and instructions; sold 4,000 training kits of manuals and self produced training video. National speaker on HazCom; write MSDS, review MSDS, train 400 clients and their employees on HazCom. Inspect facilities and provide analysis to clients.
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1979 to 1984
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Harshaw Chemical Co.
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Occupational Safety, Loss Control Insurance and Security
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Corporate Director
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Administer worker's compensation for US facilities in 4 states; write and implement corporate safety manual; present safety programs and analysis to corporate operations management; inspect facilities national and international.
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1974 to 1979
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Stearns Roger Construction
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Safety Engineer
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Construction safety engineer for oil refinery, coal power plant, chemical processing.
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1969 to 1973
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Texas Highway Department
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Houston
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Safety
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Write safety training meeting materials for 8 counties; present orientation for new hires; inspect facilities and water ferries; train 1800 employees in safe driver training; investigate accidents and assist in worker's compensation application.
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Associations/Societies
Expert has been a member of Veterans of Safety, American Society of Safety Engineers (Past Chapter
President), American Industrial Hygiene Association, Society of Ohio Safety Engineers (Past President), World Safety
Organization, Patterns for Progress, Ohio Division of Safety and Hygiene, and the Greater Cleveland Safety
Council.
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Licenses/Certifications
He was a Certified Safety Executive through the World Safety Organization.
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Professional Appointments
Expert was Chapter President for ASSE and SOSE.
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Awards/Recognition
He was selected to the All Ohio Safety Professional-of-the-Year in 1982 by the All Ohio Council of the American Society of Safety Engineers.
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Publications and Patents Summary
Expert has authored several magazine publications, white papers, manuals, advertising layouts, and marketing research reports.
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Selected Publications and Publishers
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- Professional Safety, American Society of Safety Engineers
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- Howsafe Corporation
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1969 to 1973
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Texas Highway Dept.
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Safety Instructor
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Expert promoted and trained on all safety topics; he also performed investigations for workers' compensation claims.
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| Selected Consulting Examples: |
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Expert reduced workers' compensation costs at a forge by 85% in three years.
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He has challenged OSHA on alledged violations of regulations.
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Expert has customized chemical safety training many times, especially under the Hazard Communication Standard.
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He set up the computerized tracking (and writing) of MSDSs for several small and large businesses.
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Recent Client Requests:
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ANSI expert for consulting.
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Sodium chlorate expert for consulting on aspects of sodium chlorate safety.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding your expert consulting needs.
Expert is available for consulting to corporate, legal and government clients.
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Expert is free.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert has given several court testimonies and many depositions on workers' compensation and product liability.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Expert in printed warning labels for MSDS and aerosol can label consulting for glass and film cleaner from 1988-1990.
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Chemical warning labels expert for consulting on chemical warning label.
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Expert in asbestos exposure and fabrics for consulting on asbestos litigation.
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Expert for a free initial screening call regarding expert testimony,
litigation consulting and support, forensic services, or any related expert witness services.
A few litigation needs include product liability, personal injury, economic loss, intellectual property
(patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), and insurance matters. Remember, your initial screening
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Expert is free.
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1982 to 1982
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Europe
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He inspected the safety performance of chemical plants in Germany, Holland, England, and Spain.
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He brought four new chemical products to market in the last two years.
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| Additional Skills and Services: |
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Training/Seminars
He created a video and manual on Hazard Communication; 4,000 were sold nationwide.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert has experience locating vendors of personal protective equipment (PPE), personal safety clothing, gloves, hard hats, and air detection devices. He has access to books, catalogs, a chemical library, and CD-ROM regulations to aid him in supplier selection.
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Other Skills and Services
Expert is very computer literate and is adaptable to most environments. He loves to do research, summarizing, collecting, interpreting, and helping others achieve their goals, too.
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