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Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members J. Robert Gibson, Chair, retired as a director of University of Washington in preventive medicine (envi- DuPont’s Crop Protection Products Division. Dur- ronmental health engineering) and a Master of Public ing his 30-year career with DuPont, Dr. Gibson held Health from the University of Minnesota in industrial positions in R&D, chemical plant management, and hygiene, with an additional concentration in air pollu- corporate administration (at one point, he was Cor- tion. Mr. Bishop also served for 2 years as director of porate Director of Safety and Health). He was also the Office of Safety and Health Protection at the Oak assistant director of DuPont’s Haskell Laboratory for Ridge National Laboratory, where he was responsible Toxicology and Industrial Medicine. He was certified in for all safety, industrial hygiene, OSHA, hazardous toxicology by the American Board of Toxicology from waste management, and technical training. Mr. Bishop 1980 to 2005 and is currently a consultant in toxicol- spent 25 years in the U.S. Army and held numerous ogy and occupational safety and health. Dr. Gibson positions in the environmental, safety, and health field, graduated from Mississippi State University with a retiring as a colonel; the last assignment was as Com- Ph.D. in physiology and holds a master’s degree in mander of the U.S. Army Environmental Hygiene zoology and a B.S. in general science from that same Agency. He has worked 12 years as an environmental, institution. He has served on the standing CMA Com- safety, and industrial hygiene consultant. This includes mittee and its predecessor, the Stockpile Committee, not only consulting per se but also teaching courses on because of his more than 25 years of experience in indoor air quality, asbestos and lead, as well as respi- toxicology and occupational safety and health. He was ratory protection, LO/TO, HAZCOM, confined space, appointed as the U.S. representative to the Scientific and OSHA’s 501 Voluntary Compliance. He served on Advisory Board of the Organization for the Prohibition the NRC Committee to Review and Assess Industrial of Chemical Weapons in October 2003. He has served Hygiene Standards and Practices at Tooele Chemical on a variety of chemical demilitarization ad hoc com- Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF). mittees, including as chair of the Committee to Review and Assess Industrial Hygiene Standards and Practices Colin G. Drury is Distinguished Professor of Indus- at Tooele Chemical Agent Disposal Facility (TOCDF). trial Engineering at the University at Buffalo, State He is currently the chair of the standing Committee on University of New York, where his work concentrates Chemical Demilitarization of the Board on Army Sci- on the application of ergonomics to manufacturing and ence and Technology. maintenance processes. Formerly manager of ergonom- ics at Pilkington Glass, he has over 200 publications Ronald M. Bishop is founder and president of AEHS, on topics in industrial process control, quality control, Inc., an environmental, health, and safety consulting and aviation maintenance and safety. As the founding services and training firm. He earned a B.S. from the executive director of the Center for Industrial Effective- 34

APPENDIX D 35 ness, he has worked with regional industries to improve recent service activities include membership of NRC’s competitiveness and has been credited with creating Board on Radioactive Waste Management and its Board and saving thousands of jobs in the Western New York on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, the board of region. He is founding director of the Research Institute directors of the Civil Engineering Research Foundation for Safety and Security in Transportation, applying (CERF), and the Space Day Foundation. He also serves human factors to error reduction in aviation security on several university and center advisory committees. and inspection. Dr. Drury is a fellow of the Human Fac- Dr. Johnson is a registered professional engineer in the tors and Ergonomics Society, the Institute of Industrial District of Columbia and a diplomat of the American Engineers, and the Ergonomics Society. He is a recipi- Academy of Environmental Engineers. He is the 2005 ent of many awards, including the Bartlett Medal of the recipient of the National Society of Black Engineers Ergonomics Society for his work in industrial quality Lifetime Achievement Award in Academia and the control, the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society’s 2008 Water Environmental Federation Gordon Maskew Lauer award for safety, and the FAA’s Excellence in Fair Medal for significant contributions to the education Aviation Research Award. In 2006, Dr. Drury received and development of future engineers. the Andrew Roe Award of the American Association of Engineering Societies. Randal J. Keller is currently a professor in the Depart- ment of Occupational Safety and Health of Murray James H. Johnson, Jr., is a professor of civil engineer- State University. He received a B.A. in chemistry from ing and dean of the College of Engineering, Architec- Eisenhower College in 1979, an M.S. in toxicology ture and Computer Sciences at Howard University. from Utah State University in 1984, and a Ph.D., also Prior to this appointment, he was the chair of the in toxicology, from Utah State University in 1988. He Department of Civil Engineering and interim associate is certified in the Comprehensive Practice of Industrial vice president for research at Howard University. Dr. Hygiene by the American Board of Industrial Hygiene, Johnson received a B.S. from Howard University, an the Comprehensive Practice of Safety by the Board M.S. from the University of Illinois, and a Ph.D. from of Certified Safety Professionals, and in the General the University of Delaware. He has taught undergradu- Practice of Toxicology by the American Board of Toxi- ate and graduate courses in the area of environmental cology. Dr. Keller is widely published and maintains an engineering. Dr. Johnson’s research interests include independent consulting practice related to toxicology, the treatment and disposal of hazardous substances, the industrial hygiene, and safety. He served on the NRC’s evaluation of environmental policy issues in relation to Committee to Review and Assess Industrial Hygiene minorities, the development of environmental curricula Standards and Practices at the Tooele Chemical Agent and strategies to increase the pool of underrepresented Disposal Facility (TOCDF). groups in the science, technology, engineering, and math disciplines. He is the past chair of the Board of W. Monroe Keyserling, professor, University of Mich- Scientific Counselor’s Executive Committee of the igan, has 29 years’ experience in research and teaching Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), a member of activities focused on occupational safety and health. He EPA’s Science Advisory Board, and the co-principal has taught courses in safety engineering methods, work investigator of the Department of Energy-sponsored measurement, prevention of work-related musculosk- HBCU/MI Environmental Technology Consortium. eletal disorders, and a seminar in occupational health From 1989 to 2002, he was the associate director of the and safety engineering. Dr. Keyserling holds a B.I.E. EPA-sponsored Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Center in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia for Hazardous Substance Research; from 2005 to 2007, Institute of Technology and an M.S.E. in industrial and he served as a consultant to the Office of the President, operations engineering, an M.S. in industrial health University of California, as a member of the Environ- science, and a Ph.D. in industrial and operations engi- mental, Health and Safety Panel monitoring activities neering and industrial health from the University of at the three DOE national laboratories operated by the Michigan. Dr. Keyserling has authored over 120 journal university. Dr. Johnson is a member of the National articles, book chapters, and technical reports. His pri- Research Council’s (NRC’s) Division of Earth and Life mary research area has been developing methods and Sciences Oversight Committee and chair of the Anne tools for measuring workplace exposures that increase Arundel Community College board of trustees. Other the risk of work-related musculoskeletal disorders

36 Evaluation of Safety and Environmental Metrics such as low back pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. Dr. focuses primarily on the design, characterization, and Keyserling has also been active in university-wide and development of nanostructured catalytic, electrocata- national efforts to promote multidisciplinary education lytic, and adsorbent materials. In addition, his group and research in occupational health and safety. From is using micromachining and self-assembly methods 1995 to 2000, he served as director of the University of to fabricate fuel processors, fuel cells, and batteries. Michigan’s Center for Occupational Health and Safety From 2001 to 2005, he served as associate dean for Engineering, a collaboration involving the College undergraduate education in the College of Engineering of Engineering, the School of Public Health, and the and presently is director of the Michigan-Louis Stokes School of Nursing. From 1999 to 2002, he served as Alliance for Minority Participation. Professor Thomp- president of the Association of University Programs in son was the recipient of a 2006 Michiganian of the Year Occupational Health and Safety (AUPOHS), a national Award for his research, entrepreneurship, and recruit- advocacy group that promotes safety and health educa- ment and mentoring of minority students, a National tion and research. Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award, the Engineering Society of Detroit Gold Award, Otis A. Shelton is associate director for the safety and the Union Carbide Innovation Recognition Award, environmental services compliance and operational and the Dow Chemical Good Teaching Award. He is assessments program for Praxair, Inc., a position he also cofounder, with his wife, of T/J Technologies, a has held since 1992. In this position, Mr. Shelton is developer of nanomaterials for advanced batteries and responsible for managing Praxair’s assessment pro- a subsidiary of A123Systems. Professor Thompson is gram, which focuses on the environmental, opera- consulting editor for the AIChE Journal and a member tional safety, personnel safety, industrial hygiene, of the External Advisory Committee for the Center emergency planning, distribution, and medical gases of Advanced Materials for Purification of Water with programs. Previously, Mr. Shelton managed Union Systems (an NSF Science and Technology Center at the Carbide Corporation’s Regional Corporate Health, University of Illinois), the National Academies’ Chemi- Safety, and Environmental Protection Audit Program, cal Sciences Roundtable, and the AIChE Chemical which reviewed UCC’s health, safety, and environ- Engineering Technology Operating Council. mental compliance in all of the company’s operations worldwide. He holds an M.S. in chemical engineering Lawrence J. Washington, the recently retired corpo- from the University of Houston. He is a fellow of and rate vice president for Sustainability and Environmen- has served on the board of directors of the American tal Health and Safety (EH&S), worked for the Dow Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) and served Chemical Company for over 37 years. Among his many on the National Society of Black Engineers National distinctions, Mr. Washington chaired the Corporate Advisory Board for 20 years. He was elected Secretary Environmental Advisory Council, the EH&S Manage- of the AIChE in 2004. ment Board, and the Crisis Management Team. He also served as an officer of the company. In previous Levi T. Thompson is Richard E. Balzhiser Professor roles, Mr. Washington served as corporate vice presi- of Chemical Engineering, professor of mechanical dent, EH&S, Human Resources and Public Affairs. engineering, and director of the Hydrogen Energy His career included many roles in operations includ- Technology Laboratory at the University of Michigan. ing as leader of Dow’s Western Division and general He earned a B.Ch.E. from the University of Delaware, manager and site leader for Michigan operations. Mr. M.S.E. degrees in chemical engineering and nuclear Washington earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in engineering, and a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from chemical engineering from the University of Detroit. the University of Michigan. Research in his group

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By the end of 2009, more than 60 percent of the global chemical weapons stockpile declared by signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention will have been destroyed, and of the 184 signatories, only three countries will possess chemical weapons-the United States, Russia, and Libya.

In the United States, destruction of the chemical weapons stockpile began in 1990, when Congress mandated that the Army and its contractors destroy the stockpile while ensuring maximum safety for workers, the public, and the environment. The destruction program has proceeded without serious exposure of any worker or member of the public to chemical agents, and risk to the public from a storage incident involving the aging stockpile has been reduced by more than 90 percent from what it was at the time destruction began on Johnston Island and in the continental United States.

At this time, safety at chemical agent disposal facilities is far better than the national average for all industries. Even so, the Army and its contractors are desirous of further improvement. To this end, the Chemical Materials Agency (CMA) asked the NRC to assist by reviewing CMA's existing safety and environmental metrics and making recommendations on which additional metrics might be developed to further improve its safety and environmental programs.

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