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Gold Health and Safety Consulting, Inc. |
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High Quality · Pragmatic · Affordable · Customized |
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Conducing a survey for exposure hazards inside the integrated circuit manufacturing area at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2002. Integrated circuits made here go into space! Note the round porthole on the reaction chamber on the left. Employees were worried about the concentration of arsenic compounds inside this reaction chamber when it is cleaned out. Our question...even when they unbolt it and open it….how do you get your head in there? |
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Conducting monitoring for formaldehyde and other organics on students studying anatomy at a junior college in 2003. You can just see a bit of the cadaver they were working on in the bottom right of the photo. This was really quite an experience. We saw dead people! There weren’t hazardous exposure levels here, but students and teachers in neighboring classrooms were complaining about the odors from this room The problem was that the ventilation system was poorly balanced. |
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Monitoring for dry cleaning compounds at a location where an employee had a Worker’s Comp claim for overexposure to chemicals in 2003. Note the two pumps hanging on the rail. In this case, we found that the employee exposure level was potentially significant, so we recommended to the insurance firm that they settle the claim. We strive to maintain impartiality and tell it like it is! |
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Collecting an air sample near pesticides and fertilizers stored in a hardware store in 2003. A former employee claimed she got ill due to exposure to fumes, etc. from the closed containers which were at the time stored 100 feet away from her work station. Monitoring showed exposure to be negligible. We testified at the Worker’s Comp Appeals Board on the results. The award to the former employee was significantly reduced based on our testimony. |
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Circa 1984, when I was a “toxic cop” for Orange County Health Department. I’m about ready to open an abandoned unknown chemical drum in Santa Ana on a very hot day. The type of protection we wore back then would not be legal today. On this day the drum appeared to contain corn syrup, but on other occasions we had found much more hazardous items abandoned (like waste acids and cyanide compounds). |
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Circa 1994 as the Health and Safety Manager of Assembly and Flight Test Operations for the Northrop-Grumman B-2 Division. I had an awesome time on this job. I once sat in the pilot’s seat with the engines running. |
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Here I am in 1995 when I first opened Gold Health and Safety Consulting. I believe this is one of the first trade shows I did….my booth is very crude! |