Résumé profile
Roger Dixon, B.Sc.(Eng), MPH, P.Eng, CIH
109 Union Street, #2
Picton , Ontario
Canada K0K 2T0
Email: rdixonconsult@hotmail.com
Independent consultant: Occupational / Environmental Health and Safety
Roger Dixon is a senior occupational/environmental health and safety professional with over twenty-five years business management and technical hands-on experience in projects for the public and private sectors. Qualifications and training include:
- Certified industrial hygienist - comprehensive practice (ABIH;)
- Post-graduate in public health (MPH,) The Johns Hopkins University;
- Health research methodologies, University of Toronto School of Public Health;
- Professional engineer, Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario.
He is a senior member of, and holds a Certificate of Achievement from the American Industrial Hygiene Association.
ACTIVITIES:
As a public health professional and industrial hygienist, he deals directly with the on-site assessment of hazardous exposure, health risk evaluation and corrective measures:
- Site monitoring - toxic exposure monitoring and evaluation;
- Comprehensive industrial hygiene surveillance;
- Indoor air quality assessment;
- Health and safety audits, - industrial, commercial and institutional;
- Specialist support in forensic investigations, professional testimony;
- Technical writing, - health hazard reports, procedural manuals;
- Environmental health risk evaluation, - industrial toxics, hazardous waste, pesticide usage;
- Peer reviewer for the American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal;
- Health and safety input for ISO 14001 environmental management systems;
- Teaching and in-situ training.
Clients include manufacturing, transportation, and resource-based companies, public institutions and military facilities, hospitals, schools, correctional facilities, research organizations, government ministries and non-governmental organizations and insurance companies.
In the broader environmental health area, he has reviewed and critiqued community health risk assessments addressing hazardous exposures to pesticides, landfill projects and toxic sites. Projects include the City of Halifax Pesticides Advisory Council and the Sydney Tar Ponds and coke oven site in Nova Scotia, Canada. He has had involvement with labour codes and health and safety initiatives in Guatemala.
As a health sciences writer in environmental and occupational health and safety, Roger has researched and produced numerous documents addressing hazardous exposures and health risk, for the Canadian federal government and the governments of Ontario and Alberta. In addition to seminar presentations, he has taught nursing professional level diploma courses in Occupational Health Surveillance.
Following a period working as an occupational health engineering consultant with the Ontario Ministry of Labour (Canada,) he became a corporate industrial hygienist in the oil and gas industry. Moving subsequently to the consulting area, he implemented and managed new occupational health and safety services for two leading Canadian consulting companies. In 1991, he started his own consulting business.
PREVIOUS: Prior to entering the field of occupational and environmental health in 1975, Roger worked in export market development in the health care industry for the British Government, based in New York City. His earlier engineering work was in hydro-electric power systems in Canada.
Field Research and Technical Documentation - Contracted Projects
Environmental and Occupational Health
- EXPOSURE TO COKE OVEN EMISSIONS
Site monitoring and Criteria Document; Government of Ontario - Ministry of Labour 1976 - EXPOSURE TO CADMIUM IN THE ONTARIO WORK-PLACE
Criteria Document; Government of Ontario - Ministry of Labour 1980 - OCCUPATIONAL HYGIENE ASSESSMENT OF EXPOSURE TO ANAESTHETIC GASES IN 82 ONTARIO HOSPITALS
Epidemiological Study; Government of Ontario - Ministry of Labour 1983 - A PILOT STUDY: HEALTH HAZARD OF FUME EXPOSURE IN WELDING AND ASSOCIATED OCCUPATIONS
Published as 84-Ehd-97; Health Canada 1984 - RESPIRATORY EXPOSURE TO SILICA DUSTS, ASPHALT EMISSIONS AND BENZ(A)PYRENE OF ROAD-BUILDING WORKERS
Field Monitoring & Evaluation; Government of Alberta 1987 - INDOOR AIR QUALITY ASSESSMENT IN GOVERNMENT OFFICE BUILDINGS
Reference and Procedures; Government of Alberta 1987 - OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS ASSOCIATED WITH WASTE STREAM PROCESSING: IDENTIFICATION AND MANAGEMENT
Government of Ontario - Ontario Waste Management Corporation 1988 - MATERIAL SAFETY DATA SHEETS
WHMIS programmes; Various employers - WORK PLACE AUDIT PROCEDURES
Occupational Health and Safety Act, Amendment Seminar - Ontario Bill 208; 1989 - ASBESTOS ABATEMENT COURSE DOCUMENT: COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES
Three-day training programmes for government & industry; 1985-2000 - HUMAN HEALTH EFFECTS OF CADMIUM AT LEVELS OCCURRING IN THE CANADIAN ENVIRONMENT
Report on the current bibliography covering the potential environmental impact; Environment Canada 1989 - WASTE MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR PETROLEUM REFINERIES AND UPGRADERS
CPPI (PACE) Report No. 90-5; Petroleum Association for Conservation of the Canadian Environment 1989 - WASTE MANAGEMENT GUIDELINES FOR DISTRIBUTION AND MARKETING FACILITIES
CPPI (PACE); Report No. 90-9; Petroleum Association for Conservation of the Canadian Environment 1990 - WASTE DATA SHEETS: TDG CLASSIFICATION
Petroleum Association for Conservation of the Canadian Environment 1989 - HAZARDOUS WASTE SITE OPERATIONS: OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY PROCEDURES
Monenco Consultants 1989 - NON-OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH HAZARDS OF WASTE INCINERATION AND LANDFILL
200-page document reviewing and evaluating global data on human health hazard associated with contemporary waste management practices; Health Canada 1993/94 - COMPLIANCE PROCEDURES MANUAL AND INFORMATION SESSIONS
New Substance Notification Regulations - CEPA; Environment Canada 1993 - REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS, CRITERIA AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH METHODOLOGIES
To identify an optimum site for a third municipal landfill for the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. Project co-ordinated with Dr. Rosalie Bertell, International Institute of Concern for Public Health; Vaughan Cares (A Community-based NGO) 1994 - REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT
Philips/Taro East Landfill, Stoney Creek, Ontario; Stoney Creek Community Liaison Committee 1998 - REVIEW AND CRITIQUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT - SYDNEY TAR PONDS Frederick Street - Sydney, Nova Scotia
International Institute of Concern for Public Health, for the Sierra Club of Canada 1999 - CRITIQUE OF HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGIES
Halifax Regional Municipality - Pesticide By-Law Advisory Committee 2000