ENVIRONMENTAL AND OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY & HEALTH ASPECTS OF PRACTICE from CHARLESTON WANG, Attorney and Counselor At Law _________________________________________________________ Charleston Wang is available to provide legal counsel and review on scientific-legal issues especially pertaining to environmental health, occupational safety and health, and industrial hygiene, and worker's compensation. Legal aspects of occupational safety and health: industrial hygiene; chemical safety; human exposure to toxic chemicals; routes of entry; industrial toxicology; target organs; industrial hygiene monitoring and measurements, including personal, area, bulk sampling, wipe sampling, and environmental sampling; chemical toxicity; threshold limit values (TLV) of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH); permissible exposure levels (PEL) of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration; immediately dangerous to life and health (IDLH) levels of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH); Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC); United States Public Health Service (U.S. PHS); toxic torts; chemical hygiene plans and laboratory safety; process safety management (PSM); worker right to know (OSHA Hazard Communication Standard / HAZCOM); hazardous waste operations and emergency response (OSHA HAZWOPER) training and compliance; medical records & exposure record keeping; carcinogens (cancer causing agents - carcinogenesis), teratogens (birth defects - teratogenesis), and mutagens (genetic damage - mutagenesis); lead (Pb), asbestos, polychorinated biphenyls (PCB); chromium (Cr), mercury (Hg); arsenic (As); manganese (Mn); other toxic heavy metals; volatile organic compounds (VOC) and solvents; chlorinated organics; pesticides; organophosphates; medical removal plans; amorphous silica and crystalline silica; nuisance dust; respirable dust; indoor air quality (IAQ), sick building syndrome; OSHA 100 and OSHA 200 logs and record-keeping; noise; airborne contaminants; OSHA Z Tables; control technology - engineering, administrative, personal protective equipment (PPE) biomonitoring, training, adversarial agency proceedings (state and federal); compliance inspections, citations, hearings before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC), and the United States Courts of Appeal, and before the state equivalents; common law litigation and appeals; worker's compensation hearings and appeals, including writ of mandamus petitions; review, analysis and comments on OSHA rule making and legislation; and other general aspects of OSHA law. Mr. Wang has published two books on OSHA and workplace liability: OSHA COMPLIANCE & MANAGEMENT HANDBOOK and HOW TO MANAGE WORKPLACE DERIVED HAZARDS AND AVOID LIABILITY. Environmental aspects: Rules and regulations of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and state environmental agencies including Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (OEPA). ** Community right to know (SARA Title III); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), listed waste and characteristic waste; site remediation, closure, voluntary action plans (VAP), brownfield to greenfield projects; covenant not to sue; hazardous waste; hazardous materials; Clean Air Act and air pollution control; Title V; Clean Water Act and water pollution control and effluent discharge treatment; permit to operate; permit to install; environmental audits; privilege and confidentiality issues over audits and self inspections; Phase I, Phase II and Phase III environmental assessments and audits, trade secrets; property transfer audit and due diligence investigation; subsurface and groundwater contamination; Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA/TOSCA), asbestos and asbestos containing material (ACM), polychlorinated diphenyls (PCB); lead and lead based paint (LBP); environmental legislation; pesticides and Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA); Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA); EPA priority pollutants. heavy metals, volatile organic compounds (VOC), semi-volatile organics, acid and base-neutral fractions; stack sampling methodology; regulatory / administrative inspections, compliance and enforcement actions; statutory and common law litigation, trespass, negligence, and negligence per se, strict or absolute liability causes of action; trials and appeals; product liability and personal injury; and general aspects of environmental law. To complement his training as a lawyer, Mr. Wang also has additional multi-disciplinary backgrounds in chemical engineering and economics. Click here to see an OSHA case decision by the United States Occupational Safety & Health Review Commission, wherein the OSHA proposed penalty of $135,600 was reduced at the conclusion of trial to $11,200 and finally settled for a fraction of the latter amount. Caveat /Disclaimer: OSHA statutes, regulations and interpretations of these and other federal, state and local law are subject to change and timely, competent counsel from a qualified legal professional on current and applicable law to particular facts is indispensable. This website provides information of a general nature and such information cannot pertain to any specific set of facts, and the provision of information cannot create any attorney-client relationship. For any particular situation, the visitor should obtain counsel from a qualified legal professional. 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