Expert in Workplace Safety, Product Safety, Mechanical Engineering, Workplace and Product Safety Surveys

Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs

Minnesota (MN)
USA

Expertise

Education

Work History

Career Accomplishments


Summary of Expertise:

Primary Expertise Areas: (links show more experts in each area)	Expertise Description:
safety expert product liability expert consumer product safety expert mechanical product safety expert agricultural accident expert	Expert has expertise in product safety and liability reduction and specializes in electro-mechanical and mechanical systems. He has extensive experience in the areas of compressed gas systems, firearms, chainsaws, agricultural equipment, ladders, punch presses, power shears, power breaks, metal working equipment, front-end loaders, hydraulic booms, cranes, yard maintenance equipment, lawn mowers, motorcycles, vehicles, including all terrain vehicles, vehicle fires, gas valves and gas explosions, medical devices, elevators, construction equipment, woodworking equipment, consumer products, automatic assembly systems, and material handling equipment.
safety engineering expert occupational safety expert printed warning label expert workplace safety and security expert	A lecturer for the Minnesota Safety Council, Expert is a recognized expert in protecting people in the workplace. He does consulting work in all phases of workplace safety. As a safety professional, Expert has the expertise to recognize existing and potential hazards in products and in the workplace. Once these hazards are identified, he can help select and implement proven, cost-effective corrective action to prevent and/or control the hazard. Expert can quickly customize an effective safety management program for a client.
machine guard expert machine safety expert	Expert has worked with machine guarding, which he describes as shielding and isolating machine hazards, as well as with the design of safety-related labels (warning labels). He is skilled in both explosion and fire investigations. He also works with the safety content of owners, operators, and service manuals.
legal liability expert accident investigation expert industrial safety expert	Expert has served as a consulting expert in over 2,000 cases, many of which dealt with workplace injuries. He has worked on accident investigations for insurance companies and has provided expert witness consulting for attorneys. He can answer in-depth questions on safety auditing, codes, data collection, worker's compensation, and the safety aspects of product and equipment design. He has extensive knowledge of safety industry good practices; safety plans, procedures, and standards; and the latest OSHA regulations. In fact, OSHA is one of Expert's clients. He also teaches OSHA 500 and 501 courses.
safety design review expert safety testing expert safety recordkeeping expert	Expert provides his clients with safety reviews to verify that proper policies and procedures are in place to support safety programs. He conducts seminars that cover legal trends, safety certification, testing programs, hazard analysis, product safety audits, recordkeeping, design and manufacturing, warnings and labels, and human factors activities.
product safety design expert safety auditing expert product safety expert American National Standards Institute material standard expert	As a product safety consultant, Expert has conducted safety audits on products in preparation for phase reviews, during a product's development, prior to release to production, and when a product is being modified. He tests materials and products against published standards, including UL, ANSI, FCC, FDA, NFPA, and others. He works closely with human factors, design, quality assurance, and manufacturing departments.
accident expert	Expert has investigated over 2,000 accidents for attorneys and insurance companies.
accident analysis expert	Expert has investigated over 2,000 accidents for attorneys and insurance companies, and his reports thoroughly analyze how and why the accident occurred.
accident reduction expert	Expert has consulted with many companies, after a serious accident has occurred, to determine how to make the employer's worksite safer.
accident reconstruction expert accident causation expert	Expert has consulted with many attorneys and insurance companies to determine how and why an accident has occurred. quite a few of these consultations require accident reconstruction to do a thorough analysis of the accident.
agricultural accident investigation expert	Expert has designed many agricultural machines, and has an agricultural background. He uses this background, along with his vast experience at accident investigation to investigate agricultural accidents.
agricultural safety expert	Expert's strong background in accident investigation, design of agricultural equipment, and an agricultural background allows him to recognize hazards on the farm and how to address those hazards.
all-terrain vehicle expert	Expert has been an expert witness in many cases involving ATVs, snowmobiles, and off-road motorcycles.
automatic handling expert automatic handling equipment expert	Expert's strong background in machine design, accident investigation, manufacturing engineering, and expert witness work, plus his membership on the ANSI B20 (Conveyor Safety) ANSI Committee attests to his knowledge in this area.
A Workplace Accident and Injury Reduction Program expert	Expert did this type of work extensively while working for 3M Corporation in their workplace safety department.
baby safety expert	Expert's work at 3M in the product safety department, and his work as an accident investigator and expert witness qualifies him well in this area.
child product safety expert	Expert's work as an accident investigator, expert witness, and his work in the product safety department at 3M qualifies him well for this area of safety.
confined space safety expert	Expert's work in the area of OSHA, work at 3M in the workplace safety department, teaching for the Minnesota Safety Council, and consulting with private industry well qualifies him in this area of safety.
construction expert	Expert has consulted with construction companies in the field of safety, and has taught OSHA construction safety courses for the Minnesota Safety Council. He has helped defend construction companies against OSHA citations.
construction equipment expert	Expert has investigated many accidents that involve construction equipment. He has designed construction equipment.
construction safety expert	Expert has consulted with many construction companies regarding safety, and has taught many courses regarding OSHA construction regulations.
construction safety equipment expert	Expert has taught many OSHA construction courses, has investigated many construction accidents, and has consulted with many construction companies regarding safety.
construction safety management expert	Expert has consulted with many construction companies regarding safety.
consumer product expert	Expert has extensive experience regarding all aspects of product safety.
consumer product design expert	Expert has extensive experience in product safety and product design.
consumer product label expert	Expert has extensive experience with product labeling while at 3M and with manufacturers. He has taught many courses on product labeling.
consumer product labeling expert	Expert has extensive experience with product labeling while at 3M, and has taught many courses on the subject.
contractor safety expert	Expert has consulted with many contractors regarding safety on the construction site, and has helped defend contractors when they were being sued on safety issues.
contractor safety management expert	Expert has consulted with many contractors on the issues of safety, and has helped defend contractors when they were sued over safety issues.
excavation safety expert	Expert has consulted with contractors regarding this subject, and has taught courses on the subject for the Minnesota Safety Council.
eye safety expert	Expert has been an expert witness on this subject many times. He has done laboratory testing on safety glasses associated with eye injuries.
fall protection expert	Expert has investigated many accidents involving fall protection, and was instrumental in 3M changing their fall protection requirements long before OSHA made changes to their fall protection requirements. He has taught fall protection as part of the OSHA safety courses that he has taught for the Minnesota Safety Council.
forensics expert	Expert has conducted many accident investigations that he had to substantiate in court. Many of these investigations included laboratory analysis of evidence at the scene of the accident.
gas explosion expert	Expert has investigated many accidents involving gas explosions. Early in his career, he was a test and evaluation engineer for Honeywell in their residential division.
gas valve expert	Expert has investigated many gas fires and gas explosions involving the gas valve. Early in his career, he was a test and evaluation engineer for Honeywell in their Residential Division.
grain handling expert	Expert has investigated many accidents involving grain handling. He is a member of the ANSI B20 committee on Conveyors.
handling equipment expert	Expert has investigated many accidents involving handling equipment. He is a member of the ANSI B20 committee on Conveyors.
household appliance expert	Expert has investigated many fires and accidents involving household appliances. He has been an expert witness for and against the manufacturers of household appliances.
household appliance liability expert	Expert has investigated many accidents and fires involving household appliances. He has been an expert witness both for and against household appliance manufacturers.
human-factors product safety expert	Expert has had extensive training in the area of human factors, and has evaluated many products in this area. When his background is lacking in this field, such as designing and implementing a test program for some issue of human factors, he works with a former human factors specialist from 3M, a Ph.D. in experimental psychology.
injury prevention expert	Expert worked extensively on this while at 3M. He has taught on this subject at the Minnesota Safety Council, and has consulted with many companies.
ladder expert	Expert has investigated many ladder accidents, and has extensive experience regarding ladder accidents as an expert witness. He does not remember any of the files that I worked on regarding ladder accidents going beyond my report. He does not believe that he has ever testified in deposition or trial, as the cases all settle prior to that time.
loader expert	Expert has investigated many loader accidents, and has been an expert witness for many loader accidents.
lock out tag procedure expert	Expert was heavily involved in LO/TO while at 3M. He was an expert witness for OSHA in a 7 1/2 million dollar fine against Dayton Tire Corporation. He teaches regularly on the subject.
lower explosive limit expert	Expert was heavily involved on fire safety while at 3M, and fire safety is part of the course that he teaches regularly at the Minnesota Safety Council.
machine design expert	Expert has extensive experience as a machine design engineer. He also brings and extremely strong background in safety to his machine design programs.
machine design review expert	Expert was heavily involved in this subject while at 3M. He carries this concept to his clients as a consultant.
machinery-related accident expert	Expert has extensive experience in machine safety and accident investigation involving machinery. He has a very strong background in machine design.
maintenance safety expert	Expert has a strong background in this area from his work at 3M as a safety specialist, as an accident investigator, and as a safety consultant. This is discussed during all of the safety courses that he teaches at the Minnesota Safety Council.
manufacturing expert	While at 3M, Expert was a manufacturing engineer. He also brings a strong background in safety to any program that he is involved in.
materials handling equipment expert	Expert has a strong background on this subject, due to his experience at 3M, accident investigation, and his membership on the ANSI B20 committee (Conveyors).
mechanical power transmission expert	Expert has a strong background on this subject due to his experience in machine design, accident investigation, and membership on the ANSI B15 Committee.
plant safety expert	Expert has extensive experience on the subject while at 3M. He had the safety responsibility for 14 3M plants.
punch press expert	Expert has extensive experience with punch presses and press brakes. He has worked in production areas using this equipment, has investigated many accidents involving this equipment, has been an expert witness many times, and has been a consultant to a manufacturer in Canada.
safety equipment expert	Expert has been a safety consultant since 1972, and this equipment is well known to him.
safety management expert	Expert did this work while in the Safety Department at 3M.
safety plan expert	Expert has written and supervised the writing of many safety plans while at 3M.
safety procedure expert laboratory safety expert	Expert has established many safety procedures while in the safety department at 3M.
safety training expert	Expert has done extensive safety training for 3M and at the Minnesota Safety Council. He has also done safety training for companies.
statics expert	Expert uses statics and dynamics regularly in his consulting work.
textile machine safety expert	Expert has an extensive machine design background and machine safety background.
toy safety expert	Expert has investigated many toy related accidents and has done hazard analysis studies on children's products.
workers compensation injury expert	Expert has done extensive accident investigations for insurance companies relating to the subject area.
Occupational Safety and Health Act expert Occupational Safety and Health Administration expert Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulation expert OSHA 29CFR 1910.1030 expert OSHA 29 CFR 1910.146 expert	Expert has a strong background on the subject based upon the training and experience he received at 3M, his training at the OSHA Training Institute, and his teaching of the subject regularly at the Minnesota Safety Council.
OSHA citations expert workplace injury expert machine guarding expert
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*Localities:* Expert may consult nationally and internationally, and is also local to the following cities: Minneapolis, Minnesota; Saint Paul, Minnesota; Rochester, Minnesota; Burnsville, Minnesota; Saint Cloud, Minnesota; Eden Prairie, Minnesota; Minnetonka, Minnesota; and Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Education:

Year	Degree	Subject	Institution
1974	B.S.	Business Administration	University of Minnesota
1963	B.S.	Mechanical Engineering	University of Minnesota

Work History:

Years	Employer	Title
1972 to	(Undisclosed)	Independent Consultant
1988 to 1994	3M Company	Workplace and Product Safety Specialist
1968 to 1991	3M Company	Design/Manufacturing Engineer

Career Accomplishments:

Associations/Societies

Expert is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Society of Professional Engineers, and the National Academy of Forensic Engineers. He is a member of the forklift, conveyor, and power transmission committees of ANSI.

Licenses/Certifications

He is a registered Professional Engineer and is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP).

Publications:

Publications and Patents Summary

He has been featured in many industry magazines and has often been invited to lecture on product safety and workplace safety. He has written articles for the National Safety Council and has received three patents. He has been on ten safety oriented TV programs as a safety expert.

Consulting Services:

Selected Consulting Examples:

Expert has done wall-to-wall safety surveys.
He has conducted hazard analysis studies and safety reviews of products and production equipment.
Expert has taught many OSHA courses.
He has been an expert witness and an accident investigator over 1,500 times.

Recent Client Requests:

ANSI expert for consulting.
Product safety expert for consulting on power generation safety standards.
Warning label expert for consulting on warning labels and instructions.
Expert in industrial wood working for consulting on periodic auditing of standard equipment.

As a member of the Intota consultant network, Expert is a specialist who provides technical consulting to corporate, legal and government clients. Expert provides professional consulting as a Workplace Safety Consultant, Product Safety Consultant, Mechanical Engineering Consultant, Workplace Consultant and Product Safety Surveys Consultant. Expert may consult as an independent consultant or as a member of a consultancy, consulting company, or consulting firm. Consultants service will be covered by a consulting contract. Ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars, by simply submitting an expert request.

Expert Witness:

Expert Witness Experience Summary:

Expert was an expert witness both for OSHA and to help defend companies from OSHA citations.

Recent Litigation Client Requests:

Product liability warning label expert for consulting on industrial sealant.
Expert in mechanical engineering for consulting on fire risk product analysis.
Printing machine expert for consulting on unguarded pinch point on commercial machine.
Safety engineering expert witness for consulting on system safety litigation.
Expert in toy wagons for consulting on defective design of and failure to adequately warn.
Expert manufacturing toys for consulting on defective safety harness.
Expert in refinery management for consulting on standard operating procedures.
Forklift expert for consulting on negligent in maintaining forklift suspensions and roadway surfaces.
Electrical engineering expert for consulting on a conveyor electrocution.
Machine guard expert for consulting on embosser machine.
Los Angeles industrial safety expert for consulting on safety glasses in an occupational setting.
Expert in human interaction with industrial equipment in a chemicals plant.
Expert in engineering and human factors for consulting on human factor and machine design/guarding/2 hand controls.
Expert in workmen's compensation for consulting on the premium basis salary does not effect the liability coverage but does effect the premium at audit time..

Intota experts can serve as expert witnesses or litigation consultants offering expert testimony, expert advice, litigation support, forensic services, and related expert witness services. Expert can serve as an expert witness or litigation consultant in intellectual property (patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright), product liability, and insurance matters. Expert may provide forensic expert witness testimony, litigation consulting services, forensic investigation, and forensic testing if appropriate in litigation areas as a Workplace Safety Expert Witness, Product Safety Expert Witness, Mechanical Engineering Expert Witness, Workplace Expert Witness and Product Safety Surveys Expert Witness. Intota provides attorneys and legal professionals the opportunity to ask an expert initial screening questions and ask the experts services particulars by submitting an expert request.

Market Research:

Expert serves as a resource to Intota Market Research Services for customized marketing research in industries or areas related to Workplace Safety, Product Safety, Mechanical Engineering, Workplace and Product Safety Surveys. Experts are an invaluable source of overall industry insight as well as insight into specific companies and firms for custom business to business (b2b) and industrial market research. Intota uses analyst and consultant resources from Guideline whose Research Directors manage the research and analysis of the qualitative and quantitative data as well as report writing for the custom studies. The methods and tools used by Intota market research combine the insights of technical experts and industry insiders with secondary research to provide the custom b2b and industrial market research you need.

Additional Skills and Services:

Training/Seminars

Expert has conducted training and seminars in aspects of product safety, workplace safety, emergency planning management, and OSHA. He has taught these courses/seminars for the Minnesota Safety Council, University of St. Thomas, and for many companies. Subjects of these courses include facility inspections, workplace hazard assessments, hazard communication, lockout/tagout, ergonomic evaluation, worker compensation, accident investigation, product safety, and loss control.

Other Skills and Services

Expert has been involved in over 2,000 cases as a consulting expert, many of which have involved entanglement accidents. On numerous occasions, he has been a witness for OSHA and the Federal Attorney General's office. He has experience conducting accident investigations and training clients how to avoid losses.


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