Founded in 1980 to provide on-site evaluations of potential safety and health hazards.

Staff - Senior Personnel

William R. Rath

Consultant with in-depth experience in asbestos, lead paint, and PCB detection, management and remediation.

Experience

Industrial Health & Safety Consultants, Inc. 1986 - Present

Senior Consultant

Responsible for managing IH&SC’s asbestos, lead paint and PCB remediation services.  Conducts building inspections, provides recommendations for managing hazardous building materials, develops abatement specifications, and monitors abatement projects.  Supervises, reviews, and approves similar work performed by other IH&SC personnel.  Manages and delivers IH&SC’s EPA and Connecticut approved asbestos training programs. Clients include architects, municipalities, schools, utilities, real estate managers, construction companies, universities, health care facilities, and manufacturers.  Project examples include:

• Asbestos management programs for public and private schools, hospitals, and manufacturing facilities.
• Pre-construction building inspections for asbestos and lead paint
• Specifications and drawings for abatement projects ranging in cost from less than $1,000 to over $3,000,000
• Project management and monitoring for abatement projects ranging in cost from less than $1,000 to over $3,000,000
• EPA and Connecticut-approved training courses for Asbestos Workers, Supervisors, Project Monitors, Inspectors, and Management Planners
• Participated in the Department of Public Health working group that developed the Connecticut asbestos abatement regulations

Cygna Energy Services, Boston, MA 1981 -1986

Staff Engineer

Responsible for developing technical procedures and for preparing and delivering technical training programs. Technical procedures included:

• Operating procedures for petroleum pipeline pump stations and control centers
• Maintenance procedures for mechanical and electrical equipment
• Emergency response procedures for commercial nuclear power plants

Training programs included:

• Power plant technology for nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generating stations.
• Engineering project management, planning, & scheduling.
• Emergency response.
• Nuclear quality assurance.

Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, Boston, MA 1979 -1981

Radiological Safety Coordinator

Assigned to field operations in the Stone & Webster Office of Radiological Safety to provide both in-house and client services. In-house radiological safety program responsibilities included:

• Auditing radiographers for compliance with Stone & Webster's radiological safety program
• Evaluating the radiological safety aspects of Stone & Webster field operations at commercial nuclear power plants
• Providing radiological safety training for Stone & Webster engineering and radiography personnel

Consulting responsibilities for Stone & Webster clients included:

• Developing emergency response plans and procedures for nuclear power plants
• Training power station and corporate emergency response personnel
• Developing emergency response drill and exercise scenarios

United States Navy 1973 -1979

Reactor Operator, ET1 (SS)

Qualified as reactor operator and nuclear instrumentation & controls (I&C) technician on one prototype training unit and two nuclear submarines.  Participated in the startup test program on the USS Birmingham (SSN 695) and was the reactor operator for the initial criticality of Birmingham’s nuclear power plant.  Supervised six other reactor operators / I&C technicians as Birmingham’s Reactor Controls Division Leading Petty Officer.

Education

• Naval Advanced Electronics School
• Naval Nuclear Power School
• B.S., Nuclear Engineering Technology (Cum Laude), Excelsior College, University of the State of New York, Albany, New York

Additional Training:

• Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, AIHA, October 1986
• Asbestos management in Buildings, Tufts University, December, 1986
• Supervision of Asbestos Abatement Projects, Georgia Institute of Technology, October 1987 (Supervisor and Project Monitor Refresher training annually thereafter from various accredited providers)
• Asbestos Techniques Workshop (“NIOSH 582”), AIHA, February, 1987
• Asbestos Abatement for Inspectors, Tufts University, April 1988 (Refresher training annually thereafter from various accredited providers)
• Asbestos Abatement for Management Planners. Tufts University, April 1988 (Refresher training annually thereafter from various accredited providers)
• Asbestos Designer, Institute for Environmental Education, April 1991 (Refresher training annually thereafter from various accredited providers)
• A Systematic Approach to Cost Estimating: Asbestos & Lead, Environmental Information Association, April 1992
• Lead Inspector, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, May 1994 (Refresher training annually thereafter from various accredited providers)
• Fundamentals of Mold Sampling and Report Interpretation, Environmental Information Association, March 2003

Professional Certification/Licenses:

• Connecticut Asbestos Project Designer License Number 000005
• Connecticut Asbestos Inspector/Management Planner License Number 000007
• Connecticut Asbestos Project Monitor License Number 000008
• Connecticut Lead Inspector Risk Assessor License Number 000978
• Connecticut Lead Planner Project Designer License Number 000820

Professional Affiliations:

• Environmental Information Association
• AIHA, Connecticut River Valley Section

Papers:

• Rath, W.R., Computers in Training – A Cost/Benefit Analysis.  Presented at the 1983 annual meeting of the Health Physics Society, Baltimore, MD, June 1983
• Buckley, W.J., Rath, W.R., & Spitulnik, J.J., Plant Availability: The Target for Engineering Training.  Presented at the 1986 summer meeting of the American Nuclear Society, Reno, NV, June 1986
• Haecker, G. & Rath, W.R., Lead Based Paint, Negative Initial Determination, Presented at the 2001 International Telecommunications Safety Conference, Providence, RI, September, 2001
• Rath, W.R. & Stopford, W., Classroom Contamination from Lead Bearing Ceramic Art Glaze, Presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Environmental Information Association, Charlotte, NC, March 2007