Andrey Korchevskiy, PhD, DABT, CIH
Chemistry & Industrial Hygiene, Inc., Lakewood, US
Andrey Korchevskiy is a certified toxicologist (DABT), certified industrial hygienist (CIH), and is the Principal and Director of Research and Development at C&IH, Inc (Arvada, CO). He holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics, and a doctorate in biology. He published numerous peer-reviewed papers and books on asbestos risk assessment.
Mark Reggers
Australia and New Zealand’s Transition to the new ISO Respiratory Protection Standards
Mark is a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH) who is the current chair of the SF-010 Respiratory Protection Australian Standards committee, active member of respiratory protection international standards ISO TC94 SC15 across various working groups and a member SF-006 Eye & Face Protection Australian Standard committee. Mark is also the Chair of RESP-FIT, which is a respiratory fit testing training and accreditation program run by the Australian Institute of Occupational Hygienists (AIOH). He works for 3M Australia (Personal Safety Division) as a Specialist Application Engineer whose role focuses on providing technical end-user guidance and advice around the selection, use and
maintenance of respiratory protective equipment.
This is backed by his previous experience as an Occupational Hygiene/Property Risk Consultant, Masters in Science (Occupational Hygiene Practice) and 20+ years in the safety equipment and training industry. He is passionate about respiratory protection to ensure workers’ health is not compromised from workplace exposures as part of a workplace’s control strategy.
Laurie Glossop
Laurie has extensive science qualifications (B.Sc with 1 st Class Honours and a PhD in Physical Chemistry) and is a Certified Occupational Hygienist.
He is also an AIOH Fellow and awarded the Pam de Silva Medal. Laurie has been in the occupational hygiene field for 44 years (yes, he is old) and assessed just about every occupational health hazard (physical, chemical and biological) in the workplace over this time as well some public health
and environmental health in regard to asbestos. Initially he worked with the Western Australian Government as an occupational hygienist (very few of us in those days) in an advisory role to industry and government, but this position changed to become a regulator with what is now known as WorkSafe WA. In that time, he managed a team of occupational hygienists and assisted in the development of regulations for hazardous substances and noise as well several NOHSC and Safe Work Australia Committees.
Laurie has been around long enough that when he started working asbestos was still being used to make many products and assessments were about people using asbestos, not removing it. Since the year 2001 he has been a consultant in occupational hygiene for many industry groups but mainly mining in recent years. The consultancy work typically relates to asbestos and other fibrous minerals as well as respirable crystalline silica. Laurie drafted the earlier NOHSC national Codes of Practice for asbestos (Safe Removal of Asbestos 2nd Edition [NOHSC:2002(2005)] and Management and Control of Asbestos in Workplaces) [NOHSC: 2018 (2005)] and also chaired the review of the Guidance Note on the Membrane Filter Method for estimating Airborne Asbestos Fibres 2nd Edition [NOHSC:3003(2005)]. He co-authored a review of the measurement of respirable crystalline silica for Safe Work Australia.
Laurie has presented at many AIOH Conferences as well other Institutes on asbestos over the years, but also done many other interesting assessments like the “Ventilation Risk Assessment for People Working at Quarantine Hotels and the Potential for SARS-CoV-2 Virus Transmission (concluded that SARS was transmitted by airborne exposure many months before WHO agreed came to this conclusion which was very controversial). After the hotels he assessed all the prisons in Western Australia as well as the tertiary hospitals in Perth in terms of ventilation and controls for SARS. Laurie is trying to retire, but has so far been unsuccessful.
Peter Franklin
Associate Professor Peter Franklin is an environmental and occupational epidemiologist at the School of Population and Global Health (SPGH), University of Western Australia (UWA). He is Director of the Occupational Respiratory Epidemiology (ORE) research group at SPGH. The ORE research group is well-known for its work on the epidemiology of asbestos-related disease. Their research focussed on blue asbestos (crocidolite) and involved many years of following up the Wittenoom Workers’ and ex-residents’ cohorts.
Peter has also conducted research in non-occupational exposure to asbestos. Apart from asbestos, Peter and his research group have a strong research interest in the health effects of exposures to airborne
contaminants in mining. Peter is currently Deputy Head of School (Research) at SPGH and teaches both Environmental and Occupational Health, and Epidemiology in the Masters of Public Health course at the School.