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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Hazardous Chemicals experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Hazardous Chemicals landscape.
Expert Witness #247249
This expert joined a hazardous materials regulations and compliance company where he provides dangerous goods regulatory assistance to customers worldwide by drawing on vast experience and knowledge of the hazardous materials regulations. This expert served with an organization, where this expert was responsible for directing approximately 150 hazardous materials transportation specialists of the Hazardous Materials Transportation Safety Program, including overseeing the regulatory development, technical review and classification, international standards, outreach, special permits and approvals and enforcement offices. In this position this expert was involved in the development of domestic and international regulations and gained not only an understanding of the regulations but the intent and meaning behind the words. This expert has been involved in the development and implementation of hazardous materials safety regulations for many years and has been responsible for a broad range of domestic and international hazardous materials safety efforts.
Since leaving the government for private practice, this expert draws on vast experience to provide guidance and consulting services to clients ranging from major international corporations to small businesses. This expert has assisted numerous clients with bringing their operations into compliance. Typical services include:
- Working with company staff to better their understand of regulatory issues, improve management oversight, hold suppliers more accountable and improve corporate safety;- Conducting compliance audits and providing corrective action reports and recommendations;- Providing compliance assistance (e.g. intermodal shipping strategies, hazard classification, regulations interpretation, etc.);- Developing operations and policy manuals, standard operating procedures and job aides;- Developing reverse logistics/customer return solutions;- Providing technical expertise for classifying hazardous materials including lithium batteries;- Identifying opportunities to use regulatory exceptions to lower shipping cost and reduce risk;- Penalty mitigation related to enforcement actions;- Serving as an expert witness in civil and criminal cases, including deposition and testimony;- Acquiring special permits and approvals;- Providing training development, assess employee competencies and function specific responsibilities; and- Developing and supplying customized dangerous goods products specific to client's needs.
Start Hazardous Chemicals Expert SearchExpert Witness #247257
This expert is internationally recognized as a leader in the hazardous materials / dangerous goods compliance industry. This expert's extensive background includes work leading hazardous and dangerous goods initiatives at several organizations. Throughout a career in the transportation safety field, this expert has worked with legislative and regulatory staffs at the state, federal, and international level to draft, introduce, support, and implement reasonable and prudent controls within the transportation industry. This expert has developed and presented written and oral testimony on hazardous materials and transportation safety in both Houses of the U.S. Congress. This expert has written several books on the guiding principles of hazardous materials transportation and participates in the IMO Dangerous Goods Subcommittee and the UN Sub Committee of Experts on the Transportation of Dangerous Goods. This expert has participated on several committees of the National Academy of Sciences Transportation Research Board.
In addition to hundreds of industry seminars, this expert has taught the principles of hazardous materials transportation management at seminars and undergraduate and graduate degree programs at US universities. This expert has provided thousands of steamship representatives, State & Federal enforcement personnel, shippers & other Hazmat employees with dangerous goods and hazmat training products and services. This expert provides copies of regulatory code books and has also published a complete library of compliance guides & training programs. In addition, this expert provides professional Hazmat auditing and training, specializing in incorrectly classified, packaged or described shipments.
Start Hazardous Chemicals Expert SearchExpert Witness #260507
This expert is recognized as an expert in chemistry, hazardous materials, metallurgical and plastics failure analysis and fire and explosion investigations. This expert is the founder and chief technologist for a nationally recognized fire science and forensic laboratory and specialized burn facility, equipped with among other apparatus, fabric flammability test cabinets, instruments used to characterize fabric density, warp/weave and composition (synthetic, cotton, blend, FR etc.), and a cone calorimeter which is a standard test method to characterize the fire performance of materials.
This expert performs investigation according to recognized and professional standard practices and methodologies for engineering failure analysis and fire investigation with results supported by testing, analysis, codes, standards and literature. Familiar with existing test methods on soft furnishings as well as changes in regulations with respect to fire retardants and fire testing, this expert often performs instrumented, modified standard or ad hoc fire tests on these materials.
This expert was the lead engineer that developed tests and criteria for assessing the burning rate hazard of solid chemical oxidizers based on research and testing at bench and intermediate scales that was accepted by the fire codes. This expert has training in Regulatory Fire Tests and is a principal member on a technical committee which addresses room fire hazards including fuel loads like furniture. This expert is also very familiar with other industry guides including the SFPE.
This expert has training in hazard assessment methodologies, failure analysis and hazardous waste operations and emergency response. This expert serves on hazardous chemical, combustible metals and combustible dust technical committees as well as on technical panels overseeing research related to hazards associated with combustible dusts, antifreeze in home sprinkler systems and separation distances.
This expert has been retained as a consulting and testifying expert by numerous law firms, insurance companies and corporations.
Start Hazardous Chemicals 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 Hazardous Chemicals Expert SearchExpert Witness #269836
This air quality expert holds a Ph.D. and is a P.E. with over 30 years of experience assessing risks of environmental chemicals. This expert has presented projects and research at numerous conferences on topics including acid rain, dense gas plume dispersion, indoor air quality and dispersion modeling, ocean disposal of carbon dioxide, multi-pathway risk assessment, methods to estimate exposure point concentrations, vapor intrusion, landfill gas, and environmental applications of decision analysis methods. This expert earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from a well-regarded technical university and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from a prestigious technical institute.
This expert has experience evaluating Clean Air Act permitting issues, including Title V permits, emergency emissions provisions, and the Section 112(r)(1) General Duty Clause, which concerns regulated hazardous chemicals and safe management of those chemicals.
Start Hazardous Chemicals Expert SearchExpert Witness #282481
This oil and gas expert holds P.G., CHMM, and RSO credentials and has senior executive leadership experience with a professional services and consulting firm specializing in environmental consulting, engineering, and industrial hygiene. This expert holds certifications in Hazardous Materials Management, remediation credentials for petroleum storage tanks, and extensive experience in oil and gas cleanup and compliance. This expert also holds B.Sc. degrees in Biology and Geology and an M.Sc. in Geology from a university.
This expert has worked in the industry for over 35 years and founded a firm over 30 years ago. This expert has expertise in fuels, lubricants, chemicals, storage, transportation, blending, release response, emergency recovery, remediation across downstream, midstream, and upstream settings, and related compliance and regulatory reporting. This expert holds a P.G. credential or license in several U.S. states and has performed fuel system audits throughout this expert's career, including active exploration and production sites, orphan oilfield sites, large-capacity floating-roof tanks, and small retail facilities.
This expert has handled environmental due diligence for multi-state acquisitions and has experience with regulated tank projects, compliance audits, retrofits, full system removals, compliant reporting, inventory control, emergency response, gross recovery, oil and gas portfolios, transportation and bulk terminals, exploration and production assets, bulk facility divestitures, airports, refineries, transportation, distribution, and pre-redevelopment petroleum storage tank removal consulting.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant with deposition, jury trial, and bench trial experience.
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