Jeff T. Cook, CIH, CSP, TxMAC

Direktor, Unternehmenssicherheit

Forensische Dienstleistungen

Houston

Hintergrund

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.

Herr Cook hat Reibungskoeffizient- und Stolper- und Sturzbewertungen, Sicherheitsprüfungen, Überprüfungen von Bauvorschriften, ergonomische Bewertungen sowie Infektionskontroll- und Hygieneinspektionen durchgeführt.

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.

Er hat auch Untersuchungen im Zusammenhang mit der Verunreinigung von Lebensmitteln durch Fremdkörper, Ranzigkeit und Fehlaromen, der Verunreinigung von Brauchwasser, der Einleitung von Regenwasser und Abwässern in die Kanalisation, fehlerhaften (aus China importierten) Trockenbauwänden, der Bewertung der Luftqualität in Innenräumen und von Gerüchen sowie der Ausgasung von Polyurethanschaum durchgeführt.

Education and Certifications

- Zertifizierte Sicherheitsfachkraft: Board of Certified Safety Professionals (#17829)

- Zertifizierter Industriehygieniker: Amerikanisches Amt für Arbeitshygiene (#7729)

- Entomologie, B.S.: Kansas State University (1982)

- Umweltwissenschaften/Industriehygiene: Universität von Texas, Schule für öffentliche Gesundheit (1994)

• Memberships: American Society of Safety Professionals; Australian Institute of Health and Safety; American Industrial Hygiene Association

• Certified GWO (Global Wind Organisation) Working at Heights: FMTC Safety

• Asbestos Inspector License: EPA Accredited Asbestos Inspector

- Berater für Schimmelbewertung Lizenz: Texas #MAC0212

- Zertifizierter XL-Tribometrist: Excel Tribometers, LLC

Publications

• “Field Performance of the Entomopathogenic Fungus Metarhizium Anisopliae in Enclosed Inoculation Chambers for German Cockroach (Blattella germanica) Control.”, Proceedings of the National Conference on Urban Entomology, Tucker, J.B., and Cook, J.T., 1992.