Jeff T. Cook, CIH, CSP, TxMAC

Background

Mr. Jeff Cook is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Certified Safety Professional, a Licensed Mold Assessment Consultant (Texas), and an EPA Accredited Asbestos Inspector. Mr. Cook holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Entomology from Kansas State University and over 60 graduate-level credit hours in Environmental Science/Industrial Hygiene from The University of Texas, School of Public Health. He has 20 years of experience in environmental, health, safety, and emergency response practice, and has provided expert testimony in Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, and Florida.

As Director, Corporate Safety, Mr. Cook is responsible for the oversight of all company occupational safety programs to ensure compliance with local, state, national, and international safety laws and regulations as they apply to the company’s business operations. He oversees companywide safety training programs, maintains safety databases and records, investigates job-related injuries and illnesses, and establishes employee safety protocols.

Mr. Cook ensures that the company is in compliance with all OSHA general industry safety standards, such as confined space entry, machine guarding, personal protective equipment, and hazard communication. He compiles incident rate statistics for injuries and illnesses and works to reduce workplace hazards.

Mr. Cook has conducted coefficient of friction and trip and fall evaluations, safety audits, building code reviews, ergonomic evaluations, and infection control and sanitation inspections.

He has completed investigations on a wide variety of environmental, health, and safety issues related to microbiological, chemical, and physical agents including fungi and bacteria, Legionellosis and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), as well as fire residues, solvents, aldehydes, welding fume, heavy metals, waste anesthetic gases, pharmaceuticals, carbon monoxide, diesel exhaust, pesticides, fumigants, asbestos, clandestine methamphetamine laboratory chemicals, and noise exposures.

He has also completed investigations related to foreign object food contamination, rancidity and off-flavors, domestic water contamination, stormwater and sanitary sewer discharges, defective (imported Chinese) drywall, indoor air quality and odor evaluation, and spray polyurethane foam off-gassing.