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Expert in Occupational Hygiene, Industrial Hygiene, Environmental Pollution, Nuisance, Expert Witness
Available for your Consulting and Expert Witness Needs
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Warwickshire
United Kingdom
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Summary of Expertise:
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Expert has 35 years experience in occupational safety and occupational hygine, firstly as HM Chemical Inspector of Factories then as a private Consultant specialising in chemical safety and occupational disease. The main emphaisis of his work is as an Expert Witness in the UK civil courts, preparing reports for assistance of the Court in technical issues associated with Claimant's exposure at work to substances hazardous to health. Expert has no links to employers, trade unions or other parties in the cases, and is seen by the Courts as wholly independent. Expert has undertaken expert witness work for Claimants, for Defendants, and as a jointly appointed expert (Single Joint Expert). Expertise is confined to the UK civil legal system which is regulated by the Civil Procedure Rules; Part 35 is the section dealing with the appointment, conduct and responsibilities of the expert witness in UK courts.
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Expert is a professional occupational hygiene consultant trading as Occuaptional Hygiene Advisory Service OHAS Ltd. He currently undertakes commercial assignments for industrial clients including:- carrying out air monitoring for comparison to published occupational exposure standards eg lead in air; assistance with application of complex health and safety law on the topic of substances hazardous to health (the CoSHH Regulations in the UK); investigation of disease outbreaks such as oil-induced dermatitis or occupational asthma; assistance with interpretation of statutory enforcement notices or prosecutions. Expert does not own or run a laboratory for occupational hygiene sampling and analysis, and in contrast to many consultants has no vested interest in generating unnecessary and expensive air samples.
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Expert is a professional occupational hygiene consultant and a necessary part of this work includes an assessment of industrial dust, fume and vapour control. Expert does not own or run an engineering company specialising in industrial fume control, but an important part of his work is the facility to involve other experts in those areas, and to ensure that any engineering control measures are designed and operated on good occuaptional hygiene practice. In addition, Expert is able to advise clients on the statutory requirements for such equipment (including personal protective equipment such as respiratory protection RPE), and is able to assist with the required testing, maintenance and record-keeping.
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Show Secondary and Basic Areas of Expertise |
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Honors |
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1968
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BSc
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Chemistry
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Leeds University
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Honours
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1983 to
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(Undisclosed)
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Director and Principal Consultant
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Expert formed OHAS in 1983 and it became incorporated in 1999 as OHAS Ltd. Expert is principle consultant and director
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1974 to 1982
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Health and Safety Executive HSE
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HM Chemical Inspector of Factories
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Expert was posted to headquarters in 1974 in the specialist group dealing with organic chemicals such as isocyanates. The Inspectorate reorganised in 1977 and Expert was posted as HM Chemical Inspector in the UK Midlands region, with repsonsibilities for assisting local inspectors in all aspects of occupational hygiene enforcement.
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1969 to 1974
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ICI Ltd. Plastics Division
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Research Chemist
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Expert's first "real job" after graduating was in the PVC research department of ICI Plastics. He specialised in investigation of the chemical kinetics of free-radical initiation of vinyl chloride polymerisation. It was during this time that Expert was introduced to occupational hygiene as the toxicity problems of vinyl chloride became widely known and acted upon in this period.
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Associations/Societies
Chartered Chemist, member of the Royal Society of Chemistry; member of the British Occuaptional Hygiene Society;
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1974 to 1983
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HSE
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Chemical Inspector of Factories
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He provided specialist assistance to field inspectors and to the public on occupational hygiene matters.
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Expert Witness Experience Summary:
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Expert prepares 100 to 120 reports a year on investigation of claims litigated through the UK courts for occupational disease claims. Examples of such reports include asbestos-related diseases (mainly mesothelioma); occupational asthma; solvents toxicity; dermatitis; bladder cancer; pneumoconiosis. Typically, 2 to 3 cases go to Court each year and Expert attends to give aural evidence under cross examination.
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Recent Litigation Client Requests:
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Occupational Hygiene is not industry-specific. Health problems from dusts, fumes, vapours etc. can occur in any work environment ranging from a hospital operating theatre (ie anaesthetic gases) to a heavy steel works (where hazards are more obvious perhaps).
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Training/Seminars
Expert prepared a series of client-based training sessions when the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations CoSHH came into force in 1988. Expert has since conducted many "refresher" courses on allied topics, such as air monitoring methods, respiratory protection, and design of dust and fume control equipment.
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Supplier and Vendor Location and Selection Expert's main requirement as an occupational hygiene practitioner is provision of reliable analytical services for air samples taken at inspections. Expert has necessary equipmemt to carry out the testing but the analysis is conducted by posting samples to selected laboratories, which are chosen mainly on the basis of their particular specialism.
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