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  1. WARREN Welcomes Human Factors Consultant Ellen Szubski, Ph.D.

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    Please join us in welcoming Human Factors Expert Ellen Szubski, Ph.D, to the WARREN family!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Ellen’s Areas of Expertise Include:

    • Human Factors & Safety
    • Illumination Evaluation
    • OSHA Regulations
    • Premises Liability
    • Slips, trips, and falls
    • Workplace injuries
    • Vehicle/Pedestrian/Bicycle Crash Investigation

    Ellen Szubski is a human factors consultant with Warren. Her expertise focuses on the crash investigations and other personal injury matters. These matters often include collisions and/or crashes involving vulnerable road users and drivers, driver distraction, and slips, trips. & falls. She utilizers her knowledge of OSHA regulations, codes and standards in her analysis of premises liability incident and safety consulting.

    Ellen graduated from Clemson University with a Master of Science in Applied Psychology and a Doctor of Philosophy in Human Factors Psychology. She did her dissertation on “The Influence of Pedestrian Biological Motion on Time-To-Collision Estimates at Night.”  Ellen is a member of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society (HFES) and its Forensic Professional Technical Group.  She has presented multiple times at the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual meetings.

  2. Timber – Falling Beam Strikes Worker

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    As an experienced safety consultant, I have investigated many serious injuries and deaths at construction sites over the past 39 years. The United States Department of Labor reports that the fatal injury rate for the construction industry is highest of all industries in the nation. Out of 4,386 worker fatalities in private industry in calendar year 2014, 899 or 20.5% were in construction i.e., one in five worker deaths were in construction. (more…)

  3. Painting of Handicap Ramps

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    As an experienced safety consultant, I’m called on to investigate a wide range of premises liability incidents. One common premises liability incident that often results in serious injury is a fall on a handicap ramp. There are at least four types of handicap ramps – flare side, parallel, returned curb and built-up. (more…)

  4. Where did that hole come from? Part I

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    As an experienced safety consultant, I have investigated many incidents in my career in which a worker “falls through an opening.”  The majority of these incidents have occurred at construction sites and most of the ones I investigated resulted in a serious injury or death. (more…)

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