Respiratory Protection Expert Witnesses

Los Angeles , California

Products Liability, Engineering - Product Design, Plastic Product Design, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), N95 Mask, Earplug, Hearing Protection, Respiratory Protection, Medical Device, Dental Device, Toy, Consumer Product, Durable Medical Equipment (DME), Furniture, ISO 9000, Product Development, Design For Manufacturing, Product Liability, Product Defects

◼ BACKGROUND: 40+ years' experience including in product design, product development, and manufacturing in consumer, medical, and industrial product markets. Product innovation part-time academic since 2009, public speaker since 1985. Certified New Product Development Professional (NPDP) since 2008 by the Product Development and Management Association. Member of: Society of Plastics Engineers, Society of Manufacturing Engineers, American Society for Quality. Expert witness services to Product Liability, Intellectual Property, and Commercial Dispute litigators. ◼ PRODUCT LIABILTY EXPERTISE Retained by both plaintiff and defense counsel. Specialize in personal injury cases involving product defects, manufacturing defects, product safety, engineering design, mechanical failures, material failures, product quality assurance, and foreseeable misuse. ◼ CASE EXAMPLES - Retained in cases involving 3M, Honeywell, Clorox, Ace Hardware, and others. - 3M Combat Arms earplug case, retained by...

Louisville, Kentucky

Safety, OSHA - Accident Investigation, Safety Programs, Lockout, tagout, Machine Guarding, Fall Protection, Fall Prevention, Respiratory Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Powered Industrial Trucks, Forklifts, Aerial Lifts, Scissor Lifts, General Industry, Construction, and Manufacturing

SEAK Certificate of Completion for Running an Expert Witness Practice. Certified Safety Professional. 36 years in safety & health management. 25 years in safety consulting. Authorized OSHA Construction Outreach Trainer. United States Marine Corps Reserve, Retired, Rank of Major. Marine Corps Infantry Officer. Safety Director at Colgate-Palmolive. Safety Specialist at Phillip Morris. Year 2000, started Compass Safety. Providing safety consulting services to General Industry and Construction companies. Duties included evaluating, improving, and implementing safety & health programs. Experienced in conducting OSHA compliance audits, hazard assessments, accident investigations, safety inspections, employee safety training, lockout / tagout procedures, and Safety Director duties and responsibilities.

Somerset, Massachusetts

Safety, OSHA - Construction Safety, General Industry Safety, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, Confined Space Entry, Fall Protection, Slip, Trip, Fall, Hazard Communication (Chemical), Fork Lift, Respiratory Protection, Machine Guarding, Aerial Lift Safety, Roofing Safety, OSHA, PPE, Excavation, Safety Training, Boom Lift

Mark Franklin has over 28 years of experience in Environmental, Health, and Safety Management, Training and Consulting across many industries, including construction, manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical and others. Mr. Franklin has applied industry experience in chemical emergency response, hazardous waste management, safety and environmental program management, OSHA regulatory compliance, and management program auditing (safety, quality, environmental). Mr. Franklin is a highly experienced dynamic trainer in over 80 individual training topics. Litigation Support - Mr. Franklin owns the Cove Acre expert witness practice. He leverages his years of experience in Occupational Health and Safety management, consulting, and training for his expert witness clients. He has investigated over 150 incidents including serious injuries, fatality, chemical spills, and equipment and facility damage. Mr. Franklin's services are available to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant. Mr. F...

Utica, Michigan

Industrial Hygiene, Indoor Air Quality - Chemical & Biological Hazard Assessment, Pharmaceutical Containment, Covid Pandemic Risk Assessment, Bioaerosols, Air Disinfection Technologies, Ergonomic Musculoskeletal Disorders, Noise, Respiratory Protection, Indoor Air Quality, Dermal & Inhalation Exposure Modeling, Statistical Analysis, OSHA

Award winning, industrial hygiene and safety expert with over 25 years of broad international experience practicing, teaching and authoring to anticipate, recognize, evaluate, control and prevent workplace health and safety hazards in high hazard industries. As an expert witness for both plaintiff and defense (50/50) I have provided consultation for both airborne and dermal exposure cases for chemical and biological agents. I have evaluated and modeled exposures, reconstructed exposure events, quantified dose following standardized practices for exposure assessment, and applied best practice statistical methods and science in forming my opinions. Throughout the pandemic, I reviewed and prioritized over 100 air disinfection devices for the nation's largest facilities maintenance organization, and as a result I have extensive expertise in pandemic response management including chemical and non-chemical disinfectant exposure evaluation and controls and best practice indoor air qua...

Londonderry, New Hampshire

Industrial Hygiene, Safety - Occupational health, emergency planning and response, job hazard assessment, personal protective equipment, fall protection, respiratory protection, chemical safety, air sampling, workplace surveys, disaster recovery, pandemic planning, hazard communication, confined space

OSHA safety and Industrial hygiene expert witness for more than twelve years. Director of Environment, Health, and Safety for Western Electric Company and AT&T with over 300,000 employees worldwide. Extensive experience in compliance management, training, and assessment in manufacturing, utility, and retail services. Co-ordinated joint hazmat training exercises with the Department of Homeland Security, EPA, and state and local emergency organizations. Mr. Collipi has more than 40 years of experience in industrial hygiene field, specializing in occupational health & safety, hazardous materials management, indoor air quality, chemical hygiene and hazardous waste management. He served as the designated company witness for AT&T in asbestos litigation since 2009 and designated by the company as a witness in investigations by regulatory agencies in a variety of matters related to environment, health and safety compliance. He is experienced serving as an expert witness, developing proc...

Rhode Island

Safety, OSHA - Construction Safety, General Industry Safety, Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response, Confined Space Entry, Fall Protection, Slip, Trip, Fall, Hazard Communication (Chemical), Fork Lift, Respiratory Protection, Machine Guarding, Aerial Lift Safety, Roofing Safety, OSHA, PPE, Excavation, Safety Training, Boom Lift

Mark Franklin has over 28 years of experience in Environmental, Health, and Safety Management, Training and Consulting across many industries, including construction, manufacturing, chemical, pharmaceutical and others. Mr. Franklin has applied industry experience in chemical emergency response, hazardous waste management, safety and environmental program management, OSHA regulatory compliance, and management program auditing (safety, quality, environmental). Mr. Franklin is a highly experienced dynamic trainer in over 80 individual training topics. Litigation Support - Mr. Franklin owns the Cove Acre expert witness practice. He leverages his years of experience in Occupational Health and Safety management, consulting, and training for his expert witness clients. He has investigated over 150 incidents including serious injuries, fatality, chemical spills, and equipment and facility damage. Mr. Franklin's services are available to attorneys representing plaintiff and defendant. Mr. F...

La Porte, Texas

OSHA, Safety - Construction Safety, Fall Prevention, Ladder & Stairway Safety, Signals & Barricades, Cranes & Rigging, Excavation, General Safety, Scaffold Construction & Safety, Steel Erection, Confined Space, Material Handling, Electrical Safety, Hand & Power Tool Safety, Aerial Man Lifts, Respiratory Protection, Struck-by/Caught-between, PPE

I have 30+ years in the Construction Industry with 15 of those in Construction Safety. I have served in the field as a foreman, superintendent, project manager, safety manager, as well as a Corporate Safety Director, a Construction Safety Consultant, an OSHA Course Trainer and an Adjunct Instructor. Over the course of the last 14 years, I have taught more than 3,500 people and accrued approximately 28,000 instructional hours, all of which are directly related to the competent application of OSHA standards in the work environment. I hold an OSHA 510 and OSHA 500, as well as a Certified Safety and Health Official (CSHO) from Texas A&M University College of Engineering (TEEX). After completing my certificate, I was employed by TEEX from 2013-2015 as an Adjunct Instructor, teaching OSHA related courses to those in their CSHO certification program. I am a Subject Matter Expert in Personal Fall Arrest Systems and was the major contributor to the Student Fall Prevention/Protection Tex...

Blacksburg, Virginia

Products Liability, Warnings & Labels - Injury, Illness, Product Liability, Premises Liability, Industrial Accidents, Warnings and Labels, OSHA, Worker's Compensation, Human Factors, Safe Equipment Design, Respiratory Protection, Respiratory Illness, Chemical Exposures, Dust, Asbestos, Silica, Lead, Temperature Extremes, Laboratory Safety

Expertise in: product design and safety; design of product warnings and labels; chemical exposure risks, analysis, and health outcomes; industrial system design, safety, and training. I am an associate professor of safety engineering and human factors engineering and the Director of the Product and System Safety Laboratory in the Grado Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. I hold MS and PhD degrees in safety engineering and the certified safety professional (CSP), certified industrial hygienist (CIH), and certified hazardous materials manager (CHMM) credentials. I have over 30 years of experience in the fields of industrial hygiene and safety engineering: conducting investigations and designing safe work systems. I led a compliance organization responsible for conducting investigations and ensuring compliance with safety and health standards (OSHA and EPA). I have 21 years of university teaching experience and have taugh...