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Expert specializes in hazard recognition and abatement, site inspection, accident investigation, and citation resolution. As a self-employed safety consultant since 1992, Expert has performed a wealth of OSHA-type, “hands-on” comprehensive inspections and training sessions, with the emphasis on manufacturing and other “factory” facilities. He also consults for construction firms (especially roofers), retail stores, and other types of businesses. Expert is often hired by attorneys to work as an “expert witness.” As such, he has testified more than 60 times (in court, by deposition, and at arbitration), and consulted on many other cases that did not require his testimony. Although Expert usually deals with occupational safety, he has worked on several non-occupational “fall down” cases. His consulting work is primarily in the northeast, but he has also conducted his business in California, Texas, Wisconsin, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Alabama, West Virginia, Illinois, Washington, Oklahoma, Florida, Ohio, Nevada, Colorado, Montana, Oregon, Kentucky, Louisiana, and Arizona, as well as in Belgium, Switzerland, and Canada.

His areas of high knowledge include various types of safety hazards encountered in the workplace, with major concentrations including machine safeguarding and emergency egress. He is often called upon to explain OSHA policies and procedures, and how to prepare for and respond to OSHA inspections, complaints, and citations. Expert is eager to discuss the mitigation, control, and elimination of hazards, as well as other means to enhance employee protection, even where OSHA compliance may have been achieved. This “added value” includes means and methods (at times creative) of training and motivating employees.

Prior to founding his firm in 1992, he worked for USDOL/OSHA for 20 years, serving as compliance safety and health officer (safety specialist category), supervisory safety specialist, and assistant area director, in Connecticut. He frequently served as acting area director, as well. While with OSHA, Expert conducted hundreds of “walkaround” compliance inspections (and reviewed thousands), and successfully negotiated hundreds of settlement agreements with employers. He crafted dozens of inspection warrant applications, and secured the warrants from U. S. magistrates. Further, he investigated dozens of OSHA-related anti-discrimination cases. At the regional level, he evaluated VPP (Voluntary Protection Programs) applications.

Immediately prior to his employment with USDOL/OSHA, Expert was the Safety Director and Assistant Personnel Manager for Ross & Roberts Inc., a Stratford, Connecticut vinyl manufacturing plant. At the time, Ross & Roberts employed approximately 375 persons, with most of the employees being represented by the United Rubber Workers.

Expert served as an advisory panel member for Aspen Publishers, as well as for Business & Legal Reports. He is a member of the American Society of Safety Professionals (past chapter vice president), the Connecticut Safety Society (past program committee chairman), the National Safety Council, and the Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health.

In 2005, Expert attended a New York City Department of Buildings hearing, at which he presented oral and written comments. The subject of the hearing was the proposed promulgation of Reference Standard RS 6-1 and RS 6-1A, in relation to Photoluminescent Exit Path Markings. The purpose of RS 6-1 and RS 6-1A was to establish technical standards for the installation of photoluminescent building signs, in compliance with Local Law 26 of 2004. As a result of Expert’s detailed comments, specific changes were made to the final version of this landmark standard.

He is the sole lecturer and “inspector” in two videos. He is also sole lecturer in a series of four online training modules, approximately 2 hrs combined.

More than 400 of his articles, columns, and Q&As have been published in magazines and newsletters. Examples of the publications include Safety Compliance Letter (Bureau of Business Practice, Aspen Publishers), Occupational Hazards magazine, Occupational Health & Safety magazine, Industrial Safety & Hygiene News, OSHA Up To Date (newsletter of the National Safety Council), and special supplements of Business & Legal Reports.

Expert has taught occupational safety and health at the undergraduate level (U. of New Haven, Mitchell College, Housatonic Community College) and the graduate level (U. of New Haven). He has also been a faculty member of the National Business Institute, the Institute of Business Law, and the Council on Education in Management.

He has given approximately 300 presentations (as OSHA employee and as self-employed safety consultant) to schools, labor, corporations, management, associations, insurance groups, and miscellaneous organizations. One of these presentations was a very well attended National Safety Council Webinar. Another was an on-line learning tool (podcast) for HeatTreat Radio. He has been interviewed on television, and quoted (aside from publication of his articles) in Safety + Health magazine (several times), Occupational Hazards magazine (several times), a publication of the Architectural Woodwork Institute (extensively), Logistics Management, Catalog Age magazine, Forging magazine, and ADA Compliance Guide.

Expert is the author of an OSHA preparation and response book, ~475 pages. The book is the definitive, step-by-step guide to the entire OSHA process. Expert’s special insider's insight guarantees an accurate, complete treatment of the subject, as well as a unique perspective on dealing with the Agency.

Expert's book has received exceptional praise from the American Society of Safety Engineers (Professional Safety magazine, The Advisor newsletter), the American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA Journal), corporations and safety directors (Unilever, LEGO Systems, Bic, Bayer, Lockheed Martin, Home Depot, Bristol-Myers, Gilbane, Turner, Skanska USA, Bodycote), consultants, academia (also, the book has been used as a course text in several colleges), the insurance industry (Travelers, Alea North America), attorneys, former USDOL solicitors, the Chairman and former Chief Counsel of the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission, and former USDOL/OSHA officials.