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ENRIQUE MEDINA, MS, CIH

risk assessments

     industrial hygiene

          environmental audits

Mr. Medina is an environmental and occupational health and safety professional with extensive international experience. He has consulted for corporate and government clients and non-profit organizations in the United States and Mexico in the areas of risk assessment, auditing, environmental compliance, occupational safety and health, hazardous waste management, and site remediation.

Mr. Medina is a certified industrial hygienist in comprehensive practice and an accomplished bilingual trainer. He is a member of the American Industrial Hygiene Association, the American Society of Safety Engineers and is a founding member of the Mexican Toxicology Society. He is a Principal at Alliance Consulting International in San Diego, California.

EDUCATION

San Diego State University: MS Biology, 1976

San Diego State University: BS Biology, 1973

REGISTRATIONS

Certified Industrial Hygienist: American Board of Industrial Hygiene, 1995, No. 6952

Hazardous Materials Management: Professional Certificate, UCSD, 1990

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

The following section presents relevant professional experience in risk assessment, audits and emergency response. Mr. Medina's expertise in environmental compliance, health and safety, training, communications and community involvement is also highlighted.

Risk Assessment, Audits and Emergency Response

• Project Manager for a Health Risk Assessment (HRA) pursuant to California's AB2588 "Toxics Hot Spots" law, for a San Diego coatings manufacturing company. The project involved conducting an HRA using the facility's approved 1993 Emissions Inventory to determine through risk calculations and air dispersion modeling, the cancer and non-cancer risk levels around the facility and the applicability of the public notification requirements of the San Diego Air Pollution Control District's Rule 1210.
  
  
• Project Manager for a risk assessment at an industrial complex with multiple operating facilities, including brass and copper foundries, copper wire and glass manufacturing, metal plating, electrical component assembly, a saw mill, and an LPG distribution facility. Following EPA's RMP guidance, the project included a detailed site walk-through followed by hazard assessments of identified environmental and occupational risks. What-If methods were used to qualitatively assess potential chemical releases of sulfuric acid, ammonia, formaldehyde, and LPG. Off-site consequence analysis required modeling ammonia releases and LPG tank failures, fire and explosions. The operating units' emergency response plans were reviewed and recommendations were made for updating and improving safe work practices, maintenance programs, and employee training.
  
  
• Project Director of a comprehensive environmental and occupational health and safety audit at an oil refinery in Mexico. Managed a 36-person team in a detailed audit of design, construction and unit operations of the refinery. The team conducted a process hazard evaluation of chemical handling practices, air emissions, wastewater discharges, and hazardous waste generation and disposal. The facility's emergency response programs for accidental releases of hydrogen, flammable hydrocarbons, ammonia, sulfuric acid and wastewater treatment intermediaries were evaluated through records reviews, interviews and staged emergency response drills to determine compliance with international standards.
  
  
• Project Director for compliance audits and site investigations at nine chemical facilities that manufacture pesticides, plastics and dyes. As part of an expedited due diligence assessment, several field teams conducted walk-through compliance inspections and regulatory records reviews at the operating facilities. Multiple drilling rigs and investigative teams were also deployed to conduct soil and groundwater sampling under EPA protocols. The project included preparation of site health and safety and emergency response plans to protect personnel and assets in the event of a contingency during field operations.
  
  
• Preparation and review of Hazardous Waste Site Health & Safety and Emergency Response Plans at remediation sites. The work involves identifying chemical and physical hazards, establishing action levels, assigning proper personal and respiratory protection, developing monitoring plans, and conducting employee training as appropriate.
  
  
• Preparation of an Emergency Response Plan for a medical waste transportation, treatment and disposal facility. The project included a hazard assessment, equipment and materials selection, staff training, record-keeping and regulatory agency review.
  
  
• EPA's Integrated Contingency Planning: Environmental Safety and Health Strategies for Emergency Response. Conducted training to assist EH&S personnel of an international mining and manufacturing company to incorporate EPA, OSHA, DOT and other required emergency response programs into the "One Plan" format at their facilities worldwide.
  
  
• Crisis Management and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity workshop for managers. Conducted a role-playing exercise designed to simulate various stages of response to an incident at an operating facility. Issues covered included: emergency notification and evacuation, damage assessment, media communications, and alternate site recovery operations. Environmental Compliance, Health & Safety, and Industrial Hygiene
  
  
• Project Director of a comprehensive environmental and health and safety audit program for an international medical products manufacturer. The project involved developing an audit checklist for regulatory compliance based on corporate audit protocols and regulatory requirements. This was followed by auditing several facilities and providing assistance to the facilities in reaching compliance with government regulations and corporate standards.
  
  
• Indoor air quality investigation at a large medical complex in San Diego County. The IAQ investigation involved site evaluation, employee interviews, inspection of the HVAC system, review of chemical usage, and monitoring for carbon dioxide, temperature and humidity. Recommendations resulted in improved employee comfort and elimination of all associated complaints.
  
  
• Project manager of a compliance assessment of crystalline silica for Proposition 65, the California regulation of cancer-causing and reproductive toxins, for a coatings manufacturing facility concerned about silica emissions and potential on- and off-site exposures.
  
  
• Comprehensive revision of corporate health and safety manual to ensure compliance with Cal-OSHA, including the Injury and Illness Prevention Program, Confined Space Entry Program, Lock-out Tag-out Program, as well as updates to the Hazard Communication Standard, Medical Surveillance, Heat Stress, Noise, Back Safety and Contingency Plan.
  
  
• Monitoring for exposure to asbestos, heavy metals, radon gas, biological agents and toxic chemicals in industrial, commercial, health care facilities and residential buildings.
  
  
• Forensic investigations of workplace injuries and illnesses, accident reconstruction, and product safety evaluations.

Training & Communications

Mr. Medina has developed and conducted training courses in English and Spanish for workers and supervisors, health care personnel, H&S professionals, and corporate managers. Some of the topics covered include:

• OSHA Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER).
  
  
• OSHA Hazard Communication Standard in English and Spanish.
  
  
• Bloodborne Pathogen Standard for OSHA compliance.
  
  
• Biological-Infectious Waste Operations Health and Safety Training for medical waste transportation and treatment facility employees.
  
  
• Asbestos Management Training for Boiler Room Operators and Maintenance Personnel.
  
  
• Workshop on Environmental Management Systems, Waste Minimization and Pollution Prevention for corporate management of an international aggregate mining company.

In addition, he is the Publisher of Pulse Point, an internet-based newsletter covering emerging issues in health, safety and the environment.

Community and NGO Experience

Mr. Medina has worked with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and non-profit foundations on issues of food, nutrition, health care and bi-national environmental policy over the past 20 years. From 1978-80, he worked with migrant farm worker families in Central California in the areas of food outreach, nutrition education and health care, and helped start Salud Para La Gente, a migrant farm worker health clinic in Watsonville. He later headed a project to bring aquaculture technology to poor rural communities throughout Mexico. In 1990 he helped found Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, a Tijuana-based NGO focusing on community environmental education and advocacy. He worked under contract to the C. S. Mott Foundation on a needs assessment of Mexico's environmental organizations involved in toxics issues. He also assisted environmental NGOs in efforts to develop Mexico's "Right-to-Know" program that became law in 1996. Mr. Medina is a volunteer with the San Diego Natural History Museum Canyoneers, leading interpretative nature hikes for the public to promote stewardship and conservation of the region's unique natural resources.

PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Alliance Consulting International, Principal, 1998-present

Levine·Fricke de Mexico, Director of Operations, 1993-1998

Levine·Fricke·Recon, Senior Environmental Scientist, 1993-1998

Industrial Ecology International, Founder and Principal, 1990-1993

Consulting Health Services, Staff Industrial Hygienist, 1989-1993

Mar-Cal Seafood, Inc., President, 1984-1989

Royal Pacific Seafood, Inc., Sales Manager, 1982-1984

Natural Systems, Inc., Technical Manager, 1981-1982

Food and Nutrition Services, Project Director and Administrator, 1978-1980