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He has worked in industry and as a consultant to industry performing injury and illness investigation and root cause analysis. Rate reduction requires an understanding of the contributing causes. As causes and key contributing factors were identified, physical conditions, programs, policies and procedural weaknesses were addressed to effect changes in behavior by management and employees. It should be noted that in the expert's experience, it is a combination of actions which effect sustainable change; but most typically begins and ends with management support and direction driving behavioral change.

He has investigated fatalities, mass casualty events, and a wide variety of industrial accidents as well as occupational disease filings. He has done so in multiple roles including as a representative of the Workers Comp Carrier, Safety Committee, and as a EH&S Program Manager.

He has created and administered accident investigation tools, programs, policies and procedures and auditing their effectiveness.

Accident investigation is a process that involves fact finding, evaluation of physical conditions, processes and procedures and draws on the knowledge and observations of coworkers/witnesses and supervisor. His goal is the identification of root and contributing causes and the elimination or at least reduction in the likelihood of recurrence. It should involve management review and oversight with reporting shared with employees through safety committees or work teams to promote increased safety awareness.

Investigations can and should be used expand workplace knowledge of job hazard assessments and yield information that can be applied to similar tasks, job functions, etc. across the workforce. This can be the heart of an Accident and Injury Reduction Program.

As a certified industrial hygienist (CIH) he has performed and/or directed exposure monitoring to evaluated asbestos exposures in manufacturing and construction/remediation process in commercial buildings. Where exposure opportunities warranted, he has been involved in the crafting of asbestos control programs and provide guidance recommendations to reduce occupational exposures to asbestos. The program may require engineering consideration, for example, including local exhaust ventilation systems to capture asbestos fibers. It may rely in part on work practices and the use of personal protective equipment to minimize the exposure to the workforce and prevent carrying contaminated clothing home where it may affect family members or the public.

Exposure to asbestos fibers is associated with fibrogentic scaring of the lungs and with a rather unique form of cancer known as mesothelioma. Asbestos safety is first and foremost concerned with the minimization/prevention of exposure to airborne fibers. Asbestos is found in building products used in commercial and residential construction. The physical presence of asbestos in and of itself may not need to be of immediate concern. It is the disruption of asbestos in building materials which presents occupational and non-occupational exposures of concern. If the asbestos is in a friable (dispersible) form or it is disrupted by crushing, drilling, grinding, or other mechanical means it can, under the wrong circumstances, present serious health risk by inhalation or ingestion.