Industrial Safety Expert Witnesses
What is an industrial safety expert witness?
Industrial safety expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in occupational health, human factors, environmental health, and/or safety management. Industrial safety expert witnesses may be Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIH), Certified Safety Professionals (CSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CMM), or hazmat experts and may be considered OSHA experts.
What types of cases require an industrial safety expert witness?
Industrial safety refers to the policies and procedures put in place by an organization to protect its employees and assets at a worksite. The Occupational Safety and Health Association (OSHA) is the primary U.S. regulatory body dedicated to industrial safety, and OSHA regulations are enforced through compliance inspections. The health and safety risks encompass chemicals, biological agents, physical factors, adverse ergonomic conditions, allergens, and psychosocial risk factors.
A subject matter expert in industrial safety might be called upon to provide expert testimony in toxic tort personal injury matters, or insurance disputes.
Industrial safety expert witness case examples
Representative matters have involved:
- OSHA compliance audits and certifications,
- indoor air quality safety consulting at a New York warehouse,
- confined spaces,
- forklift safety issues and standard of care,
- OSHA safety training,
- hazardous energy lockout/tagout,
- industrial hygiene assessment,
- personal protective equipment (PPE),
- construction safety and construction accidents,
- industrial accident involving machine guarding fatalities,
- electrical safety,
- New Jersey construction site fall protection, and
- risk management of exposure to hazardous materials.
What litigation support work might an industrial safety expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support services by an industrial safety expert could include chemical exposure assessments, toxicology report reviews, accident reconstructions, research and authoring expert reports, and expert witness testimony at deposition and at trial. In addition, a law firm may request a construction industry expert for pre-litigation consulting services.
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Industrial Safety Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Industrial Safety experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Industrial Safety landscape.
Expert Witness #249011
This expert is a Senior Consultant for a highly successful engineering systems consultancy. This expert's sweet-spot is in Human Factors and Engineering Psychology, experimental design, risk assessment, and the analysis of human error within complex and hazardous operational environments. This expertise includes human visual-perceptual processes, industrial applications including conspicuity, warnings, procedures and instructions, usability, driver distraction, night time vision, and crash avoidance.
Areas of Specialization include:
- Human Error Analyses- Risk Assessment- Advanced Statistical and Experimental Design Analyses- Human Factors Analyses- Industrial and Process Safety Accident Investigation- Night and Daytime visibility and conspicuity-human perception- Automotive Accidents-driver behaviorThis expert has extensive prior litigation experience and testifies an average of 4-5 times each year.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #254474
This expert is an electrical engineering expert with many years of hands-on experience in industrial controls, automation, machinery, equipment, industrial safety and machine safeguarding. This expert applies expertise to forensic casework involving industrial controls, machine safeguarding, workplace safety, industrial/commercial/residential electric power systems, electrical related fires, electric shocks, and electrocutions. This expert is proficient in the National Electrical Code, National Electrical Safety Code, Electrical Safety in the Workplace, OSHA Standards for General Industry, and OSHA Electrical Safety Standards.
For many years this expert was a controls engineer for a control system integrator, where this expert was involved in control panel design, industrial automation, machine control, electrical design, software programming, installation, electrical contractor supervision, machine safeguarding, commissioning, project management, electrical power distribution and workplace safety. This expert was a corporate engineer performing electrical engineering in 4 different manufacturing facilities, including industrial controls, automation, process control, process engineering, quality control, robotics, industrial safety, machine safeguarding manufacturing supervision, and product development.
This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer in more than 20 states and a member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE), National Society of Professional Engineers (NSPE), American Association of Safety Engineers (ASSE) as well as the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
This expert provides technical investigations, analysis, reports, and testimony toward the resolution of commercial and personal injury litigation involving design, construction, operation, maintenance and training of electrical systems, equipment and devices.
This expert’s areas of expertise include:
Automation, controls, automated manufacturing, automated assembly lines, conveyors, robotics, material handling, packaging, robotic cells, automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), test cells, gantries, cranes, elevators, conveyors, lifts, turn tables, pumps, fans, scales, instrumentation, motion control, process control, boiler control, steam control, speed control, industrial controls, HVAC systems, air conditioners, air handling, boilers, compressed air, exhaust, centrifugal and absorption chillers, heaters, ovens, presses, grinders, cutting, broaching, stamping presses, hydraulics, pneumatics, vision, inspection, weighing, RFID, barcode, RF Radios, recipe/batch management, gas analyzers, motor controls, motion control, electrical control panels, control panel design/build (UL certified), PLC, HMI, MES, SCADA and software development, industrial communications (wired and wireless), information systems, data collection, data reporting, alarming, and industrial safety.
This expert’s expertise also extends to:
Industrial control software, programmable logic controllers (PLC), human machine interface (HMI), graphical user interface (GUI), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA). Other software Visual Basic, C++, Microsoft SQL. PLC Software, Allen Bradley/Rockwell RSLogix/5/500/5000/IPDS, Siemens S5/S7/TIA Portal, Mitsubishi MEDOC/GX Developer/GX Works, Omron, Telemechanique, Modicon,B+R, Opto22, Steeplechase VLC, PC Worx, Wago, Automation Direct, Koyo HMI / GUI / SCADA Software, Rockwell RSView, Rockwell FactoryTalk, Allen Bradley Panelbuilder, Siemens WinCC, Mitsubishi GOT, Mitsubishi GX Worx, Wonderware, Intellution, Iconics, Cimplicity, Proficy iFix, Indusoft, Automation Direct C-more, Industrial Communication Networks, Ethernet, Profibus, Profinet, Ethernet I/P, DeviceNet, ControlNet, Interbus, and ASi-Bus.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #255238
This expert is an independent consultant in the safe use and design of construction, industrial, and agricultural equipment. This expert's experience includes the evaluation of product design, warnings development and safety and operational training. This expert served as a delegate on various ISO and ANSI subcommittees and is as a noted authority on lifting equipment safety.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #256699
This expert has a Masters in Design and a PhD in engineering with course work that spanned product design, safety, industrial systems design, robotics, kinematics and mechanical engineering. This expert's expert witness experience includes intellectual property (patents, trade secrets and trade dress), product design, product liability and mechanical failure analysis, manufacturing system failure, safety analysis, and automotive and motorcycle system failures. This expert is a recognized artist, award winning producer, interior designer, author of a robotics text, journal and conference papers that include automation systems, alternative fuels and automotive engine design, a racing car engine researcher and designer, and the holder of six US patents that include alternative automotive fuels and furniture design. This expert is an Associate Professor in departments of industrial engineering and management systems and in a school of visual arts and design.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #258116
This expert brings to the table many years of experience as the principle investigator of a highly successful forensic consultancy specializing in the fields of Human Factors, Safety Engineering, Industrial Engineering. This expert holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering (Mechanical), a Master's Degree in Safety, and a PhD in Industrial Engineering. This expert also serves as adjunct associate professor in a Systems and Industrial Engineering Department in a College of Engineering.
Throughout the years, this expert has been retained to investigate systems for probable potential incident causes due to oversights or mistakes due to design, manufacture, construction and/or maintenance of a product or premise. Using forensic methods coupled with the principles and practices for human factors/ergonomics, systems engineering, industrial engineering, and safety engineering to analyze incidents, these investigations are intended to result in recommendations for modifications of the existing system to reduce the probability of future occurrences. This expert's investigations generally include looking at human performance characteristics and the interaction with the other system components: other humans, the technology, the environment, and the interfaces that are intended to facilitate the interactions. The various human performance characteristics can include 1) the physical (anthropometry, kinematics, strength, joint range of motion), 2) physiological (the sensory systems, performance capacity), 3) psychological (decision making, risk identification, assessment, and aversion, perception, expectations, information processing, communications), and 4) biomechanics (injury causation, forces applied to the body, forces applied by the body).
This expert has served as an expert witness in hundreds of litigated matters. This expert's unique educational and experiential background, combined with meticulous attention to detail provide clients with exceptionally high-quality reports, qualified expert testimony, and effective technical case management.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #260510
This expert holds a PhD in Environmental Health, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and brings to the table many years of comprehensive technical experience in the environmental health and safety field in both the public and private sectors. This expert serves as Founder and technical lead for a highly respected consultancy.
Specific areas of expertise include chemical exposure evaluation, indoor air quality, heat stress, chemical hygiene, hazard communication, health and safety training and management systems, and respiratory protection. This expert's experience includes designing, directing, and conducting industrial hygiene investigations and exposure assessments (over 5000 investigations conducted/managed), designing and overseeing asbestos abatement activities, designing and managing ventilation system installations, conducting general environmental and hazardous material site assessments.
This expert has given over five hundred seminars, with topics varying from health and safety management systems and liability issues, to general indoor air quality and mold. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience having been designated a state-recognized expert in hundreds of cases in the areas of industrial hygiene and indoor air quality, been deposed dozens of times, and testified successfully in both trials and arbitrations.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #124247
This expert is a consultant to national and international corporations in the areas of product development, manufacturing, packaging, warnings and instructions. This expert has consulted on more than five thousand matters involving human factors, safety, personal injury and product liability. A licensed P. E. with a specialty in Safety Engineering and Design, this expert has many years of experience consulting to insurance companies, municipalities, government agencies and the legal profession. In addition to participating in numerous product liability cases, this expert has authored and presented on the topic extensively. In addition, this expert holds a PhD in Chemistry, has many of experience in polymers and is the named inventor on numerous U.S. patents involving plastics that have been commercialized, including protective headgear and numerous household products. This expert's areas of specialty include new product development, human factors, OSHA, safety, voluntary standards, statutes, labeling, custom and practice, technology and cost in relationship to the hazards, and dangers and risks involved in the use and application of consumer products. An active member of the ASTM for years, this expert has been involved in the creation of the standards and testing involved with polymeric products. Directly involved with the safety and design analysis of consumer products, warnings and instructions, this expert has created and pioneered an innovative approach for evaluating the adequacy and communication effectiveness of the warning and instructional materials associated with any product. This expert has created and critiqued warnings and instructions for a large variety of products and standards used throughout the world. This expert is well published in the areas of plastics, safety engineering and design, and household and industrial product safety. In addition to participating in numerous product liability cases (testified 9 times, deposed 20+), this expert has authored and presented on the topic extensively.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #243851
This expert is a Professional Engineer with an MS in Electrical Engineering. This expert has extensive experience in industrial controls, including developing ladder logic and source code. This expert has designed processing machinery, material handling systems, tooling, industrial controls, data acquisition systems, and safety interlocks for manufacturing lines. This expert has created mechanical drawings, electrical wiring diagrams, electrical schematics, and control logic. This expert has led seminars and continuing education workshops related to designing analog block logic, digital ladder logic for process control applications, human-machine interface (HMI) graphics, wiring, and hardware for distributed control system (DCS) applications. As a Consulting Engineering Manager, this expert managed intellectual property and regulatory compliance matters, and developed, designed, and tested digital and analog electronics, embedded systems, industrial control system logic, and mechanical components for the food, consumer product, medical device, transportation, utility, HVAC, and agricultural equipment industries. As Plant Engineer, this expert designed machine elements, tooling, and automated control systems for food production lines. This expert is the author of numerous technical and programming publications, is a patent holder, and has provided expert witness services for over 15 years, testifying in depositions and in the courtroom.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #248996
This expert is a Senior Consultant and Director of Technology and Instrumentation. This expert holds MS and BS degrees in Industrial and Operations Engineering and Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, respectively. This expert is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.E.), a Certified Product Safety Manager (C.P.S.M.), a Certified Safety Professional (CSP), a Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE), and a Certified XL Tribometrist (CXLT).
This expert’s recent professional activities include studies on floor slip resistance measurement; human vibration and acceleration exposure measurement and analysis; recreational boat design, watercraft occupant safety, and towed watersports safety; time study; product, occupational, and premises safety assessments; accident investigation; warnings design and evaluation; and human movement, climbing, and stability analysis. This expert is a member of several professional societies including the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, the American Society for Testing and Materials, the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers, the American Boat and Yacht Council, and USA Water Ski. This expert has authored and co-authored publications addressing recreational boat design and occupant protection, floor slip resistance measurement, hazard analysis, and warnings. As a human factors engineering expert, this expert has analyzed conspicuity issues on a number of cases related to trips/falls over obstacles on a variety of premises. This expert has been deposed 35 times and testified in 9 trials and has never been disqualified.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #259013
This environmental and occupational health expert is an accomplished industrial hygienist, safety engineer, and environmental health scientist with extensive experience spanning multiple disciplines in occupational and environmental health. This expert holds both a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science in Health Science, Environmental and Occupational Health from a public university, is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), is a Registered Professional Engineer (PE), and completed Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER) training in accordance with 29 CFR 1910.120. Throughout this expert's career, expertise has included occupational hygiene, industrial safety, chemical hazard assessment, microbial growth and exposure evaluation, noise exposure control, indoor air quality, and emergency response coordination. This expert is skilled in the development and implementation of injury and illness prevention programs and provides comprehensive health and safety training.
This expert is an industrial hygienist with over 40 years of experience, including work on over 50 talc cases. This expert has been deposed in over 10 talc cases, appeared as an expert in a number of trials, prepared reports in many talc matters, and developed cumulative dose calculations addressing whether worst-case exposure scenarios increase cancer risk. This expert is familiar with mineralogy issues involving talc sources from domestic and international mines and with recurring positions raised by opposing experts in talc litigation.
This expert is a highly experienced and qualified expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #260926
This forklift safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and has focused on logistics and warehousing matters throughout a career involving supply chain and logistics work. This expert has over 40 years of experience in supply, transportation, sourcing, warehousing, trucking, and inventory control.
This expert has extensive experience in warehouse operations, including forklift operations and safety. This expert has rendered opinions in several forklift cases and is familiar with rules and regulations governing forklifts and powered industrial trucks, including safe vehicle operations involving forklifts and forklift operations.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #270431
This workplace safety expert holds PE and CSP credentials and has worked in industrial safety at the plant and corporate level for over 30 years. This expert is very familiar with occupational safety and health standards, including OSHA standards, ANSI standards, and ISO standards.
This expert has experience with cases involving industrial vehicles, including multiple forklift cases. This expert has addressed the application of 29 CFR 1910.178 to industrial vehicle operation and the General Duty Clause requiring an employer to provide a workplace free of hazards.
This expert has testified at trials and arbitration hearings, has been deposed many times, and has been retained in over 200 cases.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #279473
This industrial hygiene expert leads a consulting firm providing industrial hygiene and safety services, has over 5 years of experience in environmental chemistry, and has directed an industrial hygiene and safety engineering program for over 30 years.
This expert has toxic tort litigation support experience, including document review, collaboration with litigation teams, and deposition and trial testimony.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #283818
This human factors, warnings, labels, and instructions expert specializes in human perception, human performance, and ergonomics associated with industrial and occupational safety, consumer product design, and consumer product use. This expert is a consultant with substantial experience in the investigation and prevention of accidents and injuries related to consumer products, warning labels, instructions, and training.
This expert has more than 25 years of experience in both forensic and proactive work. This expert has assisted in the selection and development of safety systems for consumer and industrial equipment, and has performed hazard and risk assessments for consumer products, industrial machines and systems, auditory warnings and signals, and medical devices.
This expert has deep experience as an expert witness and has testified in depositions and at trial.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #286118
This workplace safety expert owns a safety training company and has been an OSHA instructor for over 35 years. This expert is a retired Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer whose final duty station involved serving as a safety officer at a ship repair facility.
This expert has experience with proper operation and training in agriculture and industrial trucks and teaches safety classes that include powered industrial truck operation. This expert is a Certified Industrial Hygiene Technician and holds an Advanced Professional Safety Certificate from a public university system.
This expert is very familiar with OSHA and other related standards and requirements for fork truck operation. This expert has many years of expert witness and testimony experience.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #286984
This plumbing systems and HVAC/mechanical systems expert is a Licensed Professional Engineer and United States Patent Agent whose work is performed in support of litigation, intellectual property disputes, product recalls, insurance investigations, and industrial problem solving. This expert has critiqued product infringement issues within the scope of patent protection and has investigated, analyzed, and reconstructed accidents involving vehicles, machines, mechanical systems, and industrial equipment.
This expert is a member of several professional organizations, including prominent mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, testing standards, accident reconstruction, and heating, refrigeration, and air-conditioning engineering associations.
HVAC and plumbing systems experience includes failure analysis of commercial and residential climate control systems, boilers, chillers, humidifiers, commercial cooling towers, radiators, underground piping, frozen pipes, valves, meters, and sprinklers. Intellectual property experience includes reviewing patents and subject products, analyzing the design or performance of products within the scope of associated claims, and creating visual aids to demonstrate conclusions. Experience also includes patent drafting and prior art searches. Product examples include home goods, agricultural equipment, industrial equipment, and toys. Mechanical systems experience includes completing analysis on the design, installation, maintenance, and failure of systems in multiple application areas, including transportation, heavy industry, food industry, exercise equipment, medical equipment, agricultural equipment, home appliances, and office equipment. The analysis is performed with the aid of product research, standards research, product testing, and computational modeling. Examples of transportation include heavy and light vehicles, car haulers, motorcycles, motorized carts, steering systems, brake systems, fifth wheels, axles, drivelines, suspensions, restraint systems, lift gates, combustion motors, superchargers, and turbochargers. Examples of heavy industry include forklift trucks, street sweepers, electric and combustion motors, generators, compressors, industrial pumps, industrial fans, conveyors, crushers, shaker screens, spindles, grinders, industrial peelers, chippers, gearboxes, hydraulic systems, dust collectors, ladders, automated doors and gates, heavy gears, roller bearings, slewing rings, seals, machine guarding, mechanical and powered tools, machining centers, industrial racks, industrial chains, roustabouts, man lifts, elevators, cold forming equipment, forging equipment, safety devices, and safety clothing. Examples of the food industry include can seamers, industrial water purifiers, mixers, and processing equipment. Examples of exercise equipment include stability balls and weightlifting equipment.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #287418
This industrial safety/facilities engineering expert has over 20 years of experience in manufacturing and quality engineering for industrial machinery, heavy commercial vehicle components, and consumer products, with a concentration in manufacturing environments on factory floor safety, OSHA compliance, and LOTO. This expert has a broad background in machine guarding, industrial safeguards, lockout/tagout, personal protective equipment, training, and supervision.
This expert holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and has over 20 years of relevant experience in OSHA regulations and compliance, as well as other recognized standards of care for workplace safety. This expert also has experience with hazard identification and abatement, risk assessments, electrical hazards, and energy control. This expert's background encompasses project and contractor management, including roles and responsibilities in industrial manufacturing facilities, as well as engineering responsibility for coating operations involving substrate preparation processes, including shot blasting.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #292818
This workplace safety expert holds a Ph.D. in Construction Management and has over 20 years of experience specializing in construction and industrial safety practices. This expert holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Industrial Engineering, an M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, and is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE) and Certified Value Specialist (CVS). This expert has authored numerous scholarly articles and industry guidelines related to risk management and safety.
This expert has extensive experience with applicable laws and regulations, safety practices, and industry standards, including material handling, rigging, and transportation, with a strong working knowledge of material handling practices in construction. This expert has served as an expert witness on several injury matters and is closely familiar with standards and guidelines published by professional associations and regulatory agencies, supporting assessment and testimony on safety compliance and potential hazards.
This expert is familiar with day-to-day contractor practices based on extensive involvement in construction and has relevant experience involving injuries resulting from improper material storage on site, deficiencies in hoisting and material handling operations, and trip-and-fall incidents occurring while carrying loads.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #293786
This human factors and operator-vehicle interaction expert is the principal consultant for a highly respected human factors and safety consultancy. This expert holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Experimental, Human Factors, and Cognitive/Perceptual Psychology, as well as graduate degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business.
This expert has over 40 years of experience in field and laboratory research involving control and display systems, aviation and surface vehicles, accident investigation, product design and development, and operational testing and analysis. This expert consults on human factors, applied human performance, ergonomics, and safety.
This expert's areas of expertise include human-machine interface design and evaluation, human capabilities and limitations in applied environments, industrial ergonomics, instructions and warnings, perception, vision, visibility, slips, trips, falls, evaluation of equipment, facilities, and structures from a human-use standpoint, and safety-related issues.
This expert is recognized as an expert in operator-vehicle interaction and is both a Certified Human Factors Professional (CHFP) and a Certified Safety Professional (CSP). This expert has authored over 60 technical papers, research reports, and book chapters dealing with human factors, industrial ergonomics, safety, and accident investigation.
This expert has been awarded a number of U.S. patents, as well as numerous industry awards for the design of new products, and serves on national standards-making committees for prominent standards organizations. This expert has provided expert testimony in state and federal courts across the country and has acted as lead investigator in over 500 projects over the past 20 years.
This expert spent over 25 years in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserve, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. While in uniform, this expert worked with the Air Force Research Laboratory, primarily in pilot-vehicle interface design, display technologies, and aircrew training.
Start Industrial Safety Expert SearchExpert Witness #298083
This industrial engineering expert holds a Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering, with an option in Human Factors, from a well-regarded university, and has taught ergonomics and safety engineering for more than two decades.
This expert has conducted research dealing with occupational safety, including OSHA policies and procedures, consumer product safety involving warnings and instructions, product usability, perception and reaction time issues, and the ergonomics of manual material handling tasks.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
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