Our Practice Areas

• Environmental Health
• Environmental Policy Analysis
• Science Policy Support
• Program Evaluation
• Risk Assessment
• Risk Communication
• Homeland Security
• Redevelopment
• Technology Transfer
• Outreach
• Homeland Security
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Policy Formulation and Implementation
• Occupational Safety and Health Program Development
• Training
• Industrial Hygiene and Safety Consultation
• Litigation Support
• Research
• Telecommunications
• Underrepresented Populations
• Research
• Program Design
• Program Implementation

Occupational Safety & Health

Training

For decades, MDB OSH team members have been at the forefront of the development of key worker training initiatives.

• Spearheaded the creation of the “minimum criteria” for conducting effective hazardous waste training that became a non-mandatory appendix to the OSHA HAZWOPER standard.
• Facilitated experiments, through the NIEHS, with advanced training technologies, such as web-based courses for workers.
• Facilitated the development of major training programs and provided formal review of the technical and pedagogical quality of worker training programs as the main counsel to the NIEHS WETP.
• Developed a safety and health awareness presentation and booklet for workers responding to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
• Opened and operated a temporary Katrina Field Office in Louisiana to provide information related to post-Katrina cleanup to National Institute of Environmental health Sciences’ awardees, other Federal agencies, contractors, workers and the public.