Industrial Hygiene Expert Witnesses

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What is an industrial hygiene expert witness?

Industrial hygiene expert witness candidates typically have backgrounds in industrial health, environmental health and safety (EHS), chemical engineering, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) regulations, safety engineering, or ergonomics. Industrial hygiene expert witness candidates may be Certified Industrial Hygienists (CIH), Certified Safety Professionals (CSP), Certified Hazardous Materials Managers (CMM), or hazmat experts.

What types of cases require an industrial hygiene expert witness?

Industrial hygiene, also known as occupational hygiene, is the science of evaluating and creating occupational safety in a confined space. OSHA describes a confined space as an area that at least one of the following characteristics:

A subject matter expert in industrial hygiene might be called upon to provide expert testimony in toxic tort litigation cases or insurance companies’ disputes.

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Exemplary matters include:

What litigation support work might an industrial hygiene expert witness be expected to perform?

Expert witness services by an industrial hygiene professional could include exposure assessments, toxicology report reviews, research, literature review, authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, and expert witness testimony at deposition and at trial.

Cahn Litigation Services has the experience required to turn a search for an industrial hygiene expert witness around quickly, providing the right balance of expertise and testimony experience. The firm routinely provides industrial hygiene and industrial safety litigation support candidates with the exact qualifications requested by law firms.

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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Industrial Hygiene experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Industrial Hygiene landscape.