Josh Harney

Experience

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  NIOSH

  Aug 1998 - Jul 2002

  Research Industrial Hygienist
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  Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center

  Jul 2002 - Sept 2011

  Director, Occupational Safety & Environmental Health

  Effectively managed financial & personnel resources of a division focused on improving occupational & environmental health and safety outcomes for a company of $1.6 billion annual revenues, 12,000 employees, and 20 locations. Reduced serious staff injuries to <25% industry average without inhibiting consistent injury reporting. Successfully advocated with Sr. leadership including CEO and committees of the Board of Directors for increased institutional focus on improving occupational health & safety outcomes for CCHMC and pediatric healthcare industry. Strategically integrated division services into all CCHMC’s business operations by working collaboratively with managers to promote and support effective occupational health & safety efforts at the business unit level. Served as organization’s Chief Industrial Hygienist. Implemented effective industrial hygiene programs to ensure that employee health risks were effectively anticipated, recognized, evaluated, and controlled. Show less

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  University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine - Department of Environmental Health

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2014

  Advisory Board Member
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  Concentra Health Solutions

  Sept 2011 - Jan 2013

  Director of Safety Services

  My role here was as Director of this consulting company's safety services line, making sure that we were providing the absolute best, most consistent guidance to our clients on how to improve workplace safety & health as well as maintain regulatory compliance with safety requirements. While Concentra EHS had long done this for many industries, I brought additional resources to bear growing and supporting their healthcare and industrial clientele. I was particularly proud of developing a combustible dust risk assessment approach for organic dusts and specialty metals. As well, I effectively gave expert witness support for mold exposure and benzene exposure cases. Show less

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  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health

  Jan 2013 - now

  Coordinate the operations of a Branch of nearly 30 epidemiologists, industrial hygienists, medical officers, statisticians, and administrative staff, and lead process improvement efforts to increase our efficiency and deliver more predictable high quality results.*2017 Alice Hamilton Award winner, as team member for domestic Ebola Virus Disease response and co-authoring: "Addressing infection prevention and control in the first U.S. community hospital to care for patients with Ebola Virus Disease: context for national recommendations and future strategies." Ann Intern Med 165(1):41-49. http://dx.doi.org/10.7326/M15-2944 Show less

  • Deputy Division Director - Division of Field Studies & Engineering

    Aug 2018 - now

  • Deputy Branch Chief - Surveillance Branch

    Jan 2017 - Jul 2018

  • Industrial Hygiene Team Leader

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2016