Health and Safety Expert Witnesses in New York

This highly qualified traffic engineering and highway safety expert has spent his entire career in roadway engineer in the New York area. He earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering and his M.S. in Transportation Planning from Polytechnic University (now NYU Tandon School of Engineering). He is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and California. Early in his career, the expert worked as a Transportation Planning Engineer for a private firm and then as the Director of the Traffic Engineering Division for the City of Yonkers. More recently, he was a Traffic Systems Manager and the Assistant New York Division Director of Operations for the New York State Thruway Authority. The expert is now independent and consults on legal cases for both plaintiffs and defendants involving the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of roadways and related facilities.

This expert received her doctorate from the University of Michigan and worked as an environmental toxicologist for Syracuse Research Corporation, where she did quantitative human health risk assessment for the EPA on a variety of substances including solvents, pesticides and metals. As a certified industrial hygienist, certified professional ergonomist and environmental scientist she continues to apply her knowledge to improve occupational and environmental health.

This marine structures engineer earned his B.S. in Structural Engineering from Michigan State University and his M.S. in Architectural Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He is a licensed Professional Engineer in New York and Illinois, and he has also earned the ADCI Air Diver Certification at the OSHA 30-Hour Construction Safety Certification. The expert has 20 years of experience relating marine & coastal (waterfront) inspection, engineering and construction. He is currently the Principal Director for a small waterfront engineering consultancy in New York.

This qualified expert has over 35 years of experience in the transportation industry. His expertise includes public transport, transportation management, DOT regulations, and driver and safety training. He formerly worked as Assistant General Manager for New York City Transit, where he managed training of employees including drivers. He currently works as Area Safety Director for a transportation services contractor.

This highly-qualified environmental engineer is a recognized expert in air quality analysis, human health exposure, and risk assessment. He earned a BS in biochemistry from The College of Saint Rose followed by an MS in chemistry and a PhD in environmental science and engineering from Clarkson University. He is an elected member of several national committees, including serving as treasurer of the International Society for Exposure Science, on the board of directors for the Air & Waste Management Association, and as an expert panelist for the US EPA Air Quality Monitoring in Communities committee. He has formerly served as a staff scientist and principal investigator at the Health Effects Institute (HEI) and as a senior environmental toxicologist and environmental compliance manager for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health. He is currently the founder, chairman, and CEO for an air quality and human health exposure consultancy.

This highly qualified expert has 40 years of experience in the field of toxicology. He received his BS in biophysics before earning his PhD in toxicology and experimental pathology from Albany Medical College. He has extensive experience in mammalian toxicology, chemical risk assessment, product safety & stewardship, solvent toxicology, PCB toxicology, asbestos toxicology, and industrial chemicals toxicity. He is board certified in toxicology and is a retired member of the Society of Toxicology. He has formerly held a number of roles during his time with Sterling Research Group, including toxicologist of safety studies, group and research leader of comparative toxicology, and assistant research director of toxicology. He then served as a senior toxicologist for General Electric Global Research Center, senior managing scientist for Exponent Engineering and Scientific Consulting, and adjunct associate professor of environmental science at the State University of New York at Albany. Currently, this expert serves as an independent consultant of general toxicology for a private consulting firm in New York.

This highly qualified bus safety expert has directed and supervised all technical and business activities of a transportation consultancy for more than 30 years. Concurrently, he created and directed the operations of a transportation service company and the US distributor of a line of European manufactured buses. He belongs to the American Public Transportation Association, the National Association of Pupil Transportation, and the United Motorcoach Association. He has authored more than 100 publications on bus safety, and is extremely well versed in all aspects of training bus drivers

This expert has over 15 years of experience in occupational health and safety. His expertise includes construction safety, accident investigation, OSHA and ANSI standards, fall protection, ladders, scaffolds, aerial and scissor lifts and excavation. For the past seventeen years, he has taught for the Region II OSHA Education Centers & currently serves as course chairperson for eleven different courses. During his career, he has worked as an auditor, project manager and trainer, addressing health and safety issues, developing written safety and health programs and site-specific procedures, as well as the developing & delivering industry-specific training.