PROFESSION:
Safety Consultant and Expert Witness:
Consulting with manufacturers, owners and users of machinery concentrating on safe design, safe use, warnings, instructions, risk management and defending the product.

Expert witness testimony concerning government and industry standards, warnings, instructions, maintenance and inspections, misuse, hazards and hazard control, duties of parties, fall protection, safety devices, product recalls and service bulletins.

EDUCATION:
Degrees:
Certificate in Industrial ManagementAurora University
B.A. Business & EconomicsAurora University
M.A. Philosophy and EconomicsNorthern Illinois University

CONTINUING EDUCATION:
1-1/2 years of Law schoolNashville School of Law
University of Wisconsin-Madison Department of Engineering
Establishing and Implementing the Product Safety Program
Failure Modes and Effects Analysis
The Role of Hazard Analysis in Evaluating Product Safety
The Role of Warnings and Instructions
Equipment Manufacturers Institutes Product Safety Seminar (8 consecutive years attendance)
Defense Research Institutes Products Liability Seminars
American Bar Association Warnings Seminar
American Society of Safety Engineers--Ergonomics Course
Directed independent study in preparation for certificationsscience, engineering, ergonomics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
Over 40 years in industrial management including Manufacturing Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Plant management, Operations management and Product Safety.

CERTIFICATIONS:
Certified Safety ProfessionalComprehensive Practice
Certified Safety ProfessionalErgonomics

AWARDS:
Scaffold Industry Association--1998 Outstanding Council Chairman
Scaffold Industry Association2000 Coupling Pin Award for outstanding service to the industry

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
Past Chairman of the Scaffold Industry Associations Aerial Platform Council
American Society of Safety Engineers
Equipment Manufacturers Institute eight-year member of Product Safety Committee
Construction Division of the National Safety Council
North American Society of Scaffolding Professionals

ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Standards:
Chairman of the American National Standards Institutes (ANSI) A92 main committee for Aerial Work Platforms
Past Vice-Chairman of the American National Standards Institutes (ANSI) A92 main committee for Aerial Work Platforms Member of ANSI
Past member of the ANSI A92.3 subcommittee for Manually Propelled Work Platforms
Member of the ANSI A92.2 subcommittee for Vehicle Mounted Work Platforms
Member of the ANSI A92.6 subcommittee Self Propelled Aerial Work Platforms
Member of the ANSI A92.5 subcommittee Self Propelled Aerial Work Platforms
Member of the ANSI interpretations committee for Self Propelled Aerial Work Platforms
Chairman of the ANSI ad hoc committee on fall protection
Chairman of the ANSI ad hoc committee on reorganization of A92.2 subcommittees
Member of U.S. Technical Advisory Group 214 of the International Standards Organization (ISO) for Mobile Elevating Work Platforms
Head of the U.S. delegation to the International Technical Advisory Group 214 of the International Standards Organization (ISO) for Mobile Elevating Work Platforms
Member of ANSI Z535 Main Committee for Warnings
Member of ANSI Z535.4 subcommittee for Product Safety Signs and Labels

TRAINING:
Develops both conventional and computer based interactive training materials
Conducts training seminars for operator training and document creation and control

OTHER:
Peer Reviewer for NIOSH study of Scissor Lift Tipovers
Member of Aerial Work Platform Training Corp. Advisory Committee

PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS:
Publications and papers:
Safe scissor lift operation, Lift Equipment (June 1993)
Fall protection puzzles, Lift Equipment (January 1997)
An issue of safety, Snorkel (1997)
Aerial Work Platforms: Safety, Liability & the Rental Center, Professional Safety (January 1998)
What Does an Operator Need to Know? presented before the International Access Platform Conference in Maastricht Holland (September 1998)
"Choosing Safety," Scaffold Industry (October 2001)

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS:
National Safety Council
Associated General Contractors of America
American Bar Association
Equipment Manufacturers Institute
Construction Industry Manufacturers Association
Scaffold Industry Association Aerial Platform Council
Defense Research Institute
International Powered Access Federation

TRADE SHOW PRESENTATIONS:
National Safety Council
National Joint Apprenticeship and Training Committee for the Electrical Industry
Plant Engineering and Maintenance
Associated Equipment Distributors
Scaffold Industry Association
American Rental Association
American Society of Safety Engineers
Associated General Contractors of America
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