Organizational Management Consulting
Senior management must support health, safety, and environmental programs or these programs will not succeed. I can review organizational structure, interview managers and personnel, recommend improvements for support and program success.
Compliance audits of facilities for OSHA, The Joint Commission, CAP, departments of health, union/management inspections, and good practices
- Improving the EHS program from the traditional “Officer” model to the current Safety Management System model
- Review of construction plans for new buildings and rehabilitation for occupational, environmental, and patient safety and health concerns
- Observation, training, and developing programs for:
- Ergonomics--computer, back/lifting for patient and material handling, trades, lab work, office, janitorial, central supply
- Chemical Hygiene/Chemicals in Lab Standard, Hazard Communication
- Hazardous chemical waste program and minimization
- Monitoring chemical exposures such as formaldehyde, ETO, mercury, solvents, etc.
- Indoor Air Quality investigations
- Fire/Life Safety and Fire Drills, Emergency Preparedness
- Blood-Borne Pathogens, Biosafety, Infection Prevention, Research
- Sharps, needles handling, waste treatment
- Injury and illness, incident/accident investigations
- Complaint investigations
- Patient safety and infection prevention
- Violence in the workplace
- Epidemiology and quality assurance
- Asbestos Awareness
- Hazard identification and assessment