 Pamela Murcell, CIH
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 Pamela Murcell is the President of KWA Safety & HazMat Consultants, Inc., and a Certified Industrial Hygienist. She has over 25 years professional experience in occupational health and safety, industrial hygiene, regulatory compliance, and training, including seven and a half years with the State of California -- Cal/OSHA Program and Toxic Substances Control Program, and eight and a half years as Corporate Health and Safety Director for Brown and Caldwell Consulting Engineers. Ms. Murcell has developed and implemented comprehensive health and safety programs, and provided many classroom and hands-on training programs on health and safety topics. These topics include hazard recognition, monitoring and assessing potential exposures, confined space entry, developing and implementing safety plans, selection and use of personal protective equipment and respirators, hazard communication, and all levels of hazardous waste operations training (40-hour, 24-hour, Supervisor, Annual Refresher). Ms. Murcell has provided project management and consultation for numerous projects. Her duties have included planning, reviewing, approving and implementing safety plans for field work and for hazardous waste operations compliance; evaluation of risks to workers and public health; and coordination with agencies and project team members. Hazards associated with these projects have ranged from confined space entry to toxic air contamination to hazardous materials handling and sampling to heat stress. She has extensive field experience with sampling equipment and instruments for soils investigations and air monitoring, and as site safety officer for project teams on hazardous waste projects. Ms. Murcell's additional experience includes: providing consultation on chemical exposures, physical hazards and related health effects; assisting with the preparation of risk assessments; interacting with regulatory agencies during regulations development process; and auditing health and safety programs for compliance with OSHA regulations.
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