Product Safety Expert Witnesses

Product safety expert witnesses and consultants listed here may be able to form expert opinions, draft expert witness reports, provide expert witness testimony at deposition and/or trial as or serve as consulting (non-testifying) experts on product safety. The product safety expert witness listings on this page are typically from fields/areas of expertise such as: Business Operations, Engineering, Ergonomics, Human Factors, Industrial Hygiene, OSHA, Products Liability, Safety, Slip Trip & Fall, and Toxicology.

Zal Phiroz, PhD Harvard University, University of California

San Diego, California
Products Liability, Business Operations - Personal Injury, Manufacturing, Product Safety, Product Liability, Product Design, Quality Control, Distribution, Supply Chain, Transportation, Logistics, Safety Testing, Product Recall, Business Interruption, Safety Testing, Packaging, Operations, Labeling, Industry Standards, Best Practices,
Dr. Phiroz provides expert witness testimony on manufacturing vulnerability causing personal injury, product liability, product recall, product defect, quality control, packaging and distribution. Dr. Phiroz has held a number of academic and executive roles, including appointments at Harvard, USC, UCSD, MSU, Proctor & Gamble (NYSE:PG). He currently holds a fellowship at Harvard University and has published numerous articles and books in the area of supply chain management. The following are some examples of Dr. Phiroz’s expert and consulting projects: - Personal injury due to manufacturing design and distribution flaws. Analysis of industry standards for quality and safety within the manufacturing, storage, transportation, packaging and quality control phases of a supply chain. - Supply chain design, responsibility and liability. Determination of inventory ownership across various channels. Assessment of liability, by way of supply chain functionality and design. - ...

Jerry P Purswell, Ph.D., P.E., CPE Purswell & Purswell, Ergonomics & Safety Consulting

Colorado Springs, Colorado
Human Factors, OSHA - Warnings Design & Testing , OSHA, Product Safety, Industrial Safety, Chemical Safety, HazComm & FHSA labeling requirements, Electrical Safety, Construction Safety, Fall Protection, Personal Protective Equipment, Consumer Product Safety, Human Factors, Perception-Reaction time, Backup Alarm
Dr. Purswell is a Registered Professional Engineer and a Certified Professional Ergonomist. He has designed and tested on-product warning labels as well as product instructions for consumer and for industrial products. He has published several papers on the use of OSHA's "General Duty" clause to cite employers for ergonomics hazards. He has also published several papers evaluating the effectiveness of backup alarms. With his CSU-Pueblo students, he has published papers on hazard analyses of consumer and industrial products. Dr. Purswell has performed usability testing on medical devices, including developing the test protocols and conducting usability testing with different populations. Dr. Purswell & his co-authors were named as Finalists for the 2014 Health Devices Award Achievement by the Emergency Care Research Institute. Dr. Purswell has been retained by attorneys around the US to evaluate the ergonomics and safety aspects of matters in litigation. He has testified at trial in...

Alex LeBeau, PhD, MPH, CIH Exposure Assessment Consulting, LLC

Orlando, Florida
Industrial Hygiene, Toxicology - Indoor Air Quality, Exposure risk, Risk Assessment, Legionella, Legionnaires disease, PFAS, Environmental Science, Building science, Mold, Bacteria, Dose Assessment, Heavy Metal, Risk, Pesticide, PCB, Food, Waterborne Pathogens, Product Safety, OSHA, Antimicrobial
Problem solving Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) with over 16 years of experience evaluating environmental and occupational exposures to chemicals and biological agents (e.g., bacteria) from the industrial hygiene and toxicology perspective. History of performing human health risk assessments at contaminated sites using U.S. EPA and state regulatory guidelines and monitoring remediation activities at those sites enabling me to analyze risk and determine if any workers or residents would be impacted by residual contamination and/or remediation activities. I perform indoor environmental quality assessments to evaluate exposure impacts on building occupants - including Legionella and water quality assessments - at healthcare, residential, commercial, and industrial facilities as part of the comprehensive overall building science aspect of indoor environmental quality. Experience co-authoring industry guidance on COVID-19 and presented on COVID-19 at a number of conferences as an...

Lee T Ostrom Sole Proprietor

Idaho Falls, Idaho
Safety, Ergonomics - Human Factors, Risk Assessment, Product Safety, Slips/Falls, Complex environments, Workplace Design, Procedures, Maintenance, inspection
CORE vs PSCo - May 2022 till November 2023 - Breached Contract and Negligence. I provided human factors/industrial safety support to plaintiff’s counsel. The jury said when interviewed that the human factors testimony I provided helped to persuade their decision. A synopsis of the lawsuit is below: On Oct. 25, a Denver district court jury found in favor of CORE in its lawsuit against Public Service Company of Colorado, a subsidiary of Xcel Energy Inc. (Xcel), regarding the mismanagement of the Comanche Unit 3 coal-fired power plant. CORE was awarded $26.45 million for lengthy outages on 2020 and 2022 caused by Xcel’s imprudent operations and negligence. 2022-Employee injury case. Two employees of a fish procession plant were repairing a conveyor system that was not properly locked out. The two employees entered a confined space called a fish dump with the knowledge of the supervisor. The employees contacted the actuator, and their legs were severely injured. I do not know t...

Robert (Rob) C Hoffman Jr, PE, CFEI Creative Product Solutions, LLC

Coloma, Michigan
Engineering, Safety - fire, shock, burn, appliance, product, design, test, code, safety, failure, analysis, warning, instruction, literature, product safety, containment, inspection, litigation, product liability, expert
Specialize in design for safety, force failure testing, and product litigation support for the consumer goods industry. Knowledge source in the US on appliance fires, with specific detailed knowledge on dryer fires and their causes. Qualifications: Registered professional engineer in the state of Michigan Certified fire and explosion investigator (CFEI) Master certified in design for safety Master certified in force failure testing Certified in experimental statistics and statistical process control Member of the UL Standards Technical Panel for appliance codes related to clothes washers and dryers I worked in the consumer goods industry in appliances for over 28 years, which gave me the opportunity to serve on the dryer safety committee for the American Home Appliance Manufacturers (AHAM), as well as work extensively with Underwriters Laboratory ( UL) and CSA. Recognized as a significant knowledge source in the US on dryer fires and their causes, I was instrumental in the deve...

Jerry Birnbach, F.I.S.P., Assoc A.I.A. Jerry Birnbach LLC

New York, New York
Slip Trip & Fall, Safety - Over 400 cases offering opinion reports , 47 State , retail accidents, store standard of care, slip and fall, trip and fall, display safety, merchandising, retail liability, ada regulations, product liability, design standard, retail liability, customer accidents, retail safety, product safety
Top 40 Retail Industry Leader per VMSD magazine Top 50 Retail Design Firm per VMSD Design awards for Store Design, Display Design, Marketing Licensing and Branding expertise (Target and Walmart Brands) Former Contributing Editor Display Design Ideas Former Juror Design Contest Store of the Future Design Firm Globalshop Industry Show Guest Speaker Trade Shows, Industry Conferences CV available www.retail-expert-witness com