Bruce E. Lippy, Ph.D., CIH, CSP
Consultant
Bruce Lippy is a senior consultant with Environmental Profiles, Inc. He has a Ph.D. in policy from the University of Maryland, with coursework concentrated in economics and quantitative measures of management. His undergraduate degree is a B.A. summa cum laude in biology from Western Maryland College. He is board certified in the comprehensive practice of industrial hygiene and is a certified safety professional. His 27 years working as an industrial hygienist for the private sector, labor unions, and federal and state governments has afforded him broad experience. He has performed hundreds of industrial hygiene audits, in this country and abroad, for a wide range of agents, including asbestos, lead, organic solvents, mold, indoor air contaminants, and noise.
His experience as the president of two laboratories provided significant expertise in the analysis of asbestos, by optical and electron microscopy. He has written and lectured widely on the subject of indoor air quality, including developing guidance documents for the State of Maryland. He was instrumental in helping the Department of Energy to communicate the risks of their new technologies for cleaning up environmental contamination to the workers who operated and maintained the equipment. He has recently provided technical expertise to the federal government on the health and safety hazards of nanotechnologies.
His previous employment includes directing the National Clearinghouse for
Worker Safety and Health Training through a grant from the National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences.
He also worked as part of the hazmat team of the International Union of Operating
Engineers and directed the industrial hygiene effort for the heavy equipment
operators at the World Trade Center response, distributing respirators and
collecting samples. Prior to that, he worked for several consulting firms,
managed the Environmental Health Education Center at the University of Maryland’s
School of Medicine and coordinated training for the Maryland Occupational
Safety and Health agency.
He currently serves on the Department of Homeland Security’s Training and Data Exchange (TRADE) committee, the HAMMER facility’s Medical Surveillance Subcommittee, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Nanoscale Environment and Health Initiative, the Chesapeake Region Safety Council’s Advisory Board, Catonsville Community College’s Health and Safety Program Advisory Board, the National Response Team’s Training and Health & Safety committees, and the EPA-Labor Superfund Task Force.
He has given over fifty professionals presentations, co-authored nine articles in peer-reviewed journals and written chapters for the Levy and Sidel 2002 text, “Terrorism and Public Health” and the 1991 Peters and Peters Sourcebook on Asbestos Disease.
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