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NORMAN SAFETY & HEALTH CONSULTING LLC

Partnering to manage
workplace exposure

NORMAN SAFETY & HEALTH CONSULTING LLC

Partnering to manage
workplace exposure

I formed this company to help companies manage employee safety and health exposures. I focus on creative, pragmatic, sustainable solutions to workplace safety and health challenges.

Creative – blending my experience of best practices to find a customized solution that exceeds cookie-cutter basic compliance.

Pragmatic – keeping it simple and addressing core program elements without added fluff.

Sustainable – leveraging existing business process or developing organizational procedures to support ongoing exposure management activities.

Safety Consulting Support

Safety support includes a wide range of activities to identify and control exposure to
hazards that could cause worker injuries. “Safety” topics tend to focus on physical
hazards that could result in immediate injuries if not properly identified and controlled.

Safety Consulting Support Examples Include:

Compliance inspections and audits

Program development (AWAIR, HazCom/Right to Know, Respiratory Protection, Emergency Action Plan etc.)

Written procedure development (LOTO, Confined Space Evaluations, etc.)

Safety Training

Safety Committee Coaching

Contact me to discuss scalable options to address your safety challenge.

Industrial Hygiene / Health
Support

Industrial Hygiene is the art and science of identifying and controlling workplaces stressors that can cause illness or disease. These illnesses can develop from low level exposures over the course of many years. Many of these low-level exposures need sensitive equipment used by a trained industrial hygienist to identify and quantify worker exposure levels compared to established exposure guidelines.

Health Stressors that industrial hygienists can help identify and control include:

Noise

Heat

Radiation

Chemicals

Dust/fume/mist

Indoor Air Quality

Repetitive stress and ergonomic injuries

Contact me to discuss a plan to sample or monitor exposure levels or to discuss control methods to reduce employee exposure.

Respirator Fit Testing

Respirators are critical pieces of personal protective equipment for protecting worker from uncontrolled airborne hazards. A respirator user must be trained, medically approved, and fit tested before wearing a respirator. Fit Testing is the process of evaluating how well the respirator seals to the users face to provide proper protection.
Quantitative fit testing for any type of respirator is performed using the TSI PortaCount™ Respirator Fit Tester following the OSHA Ambient Aerosol Fit Testing Protocol.
Qualitative fit testing using saccharin or bitrix® solution can also be performed for half and full face air purifying respirators.

Contact me to discuss flexible options to conduct initial or annual respirator fit testing for your employees.

COVID-19 Blog

“Aerosol Pathogen Response Plan – Mitigating Risk Indoors”.

AIHA.org shared this video that was presented at a North Carolina local chapter virtual meeting. A fantastic explanation of how HVAC systems work and what can be done to manage COVID-19 exposure for the indoor workplace.

https://vimeo.com/447215288

Tom Smith, CIH, President/CEO of 3Flow

www.3flow.com

LEARN MORE

“Not all masks are created equal”

A paper from researchers at Duke University measured particulates that escape through various types of face coverings. https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/08/07/sciadv.abd3083

The authors of this study used low-cost instrumentation as an example of how particle escape through masks can be measured. The authors admit there are several limitations to their research.