Migdalia Garcia

Experience

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  GSK

  May 2004 - Oct 2007

  • Industrial Hygienist

    Aug 2007 - Oct 2007

  • Quality, GMP & Safety Training Specialist

    May 2004 - Aug 2007
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  Department of Veterans Affairs

  Aug 2009 - Oct 2019

  Served as the Chief of Safety and Emergency Management Service supporting all buildings and infrastructure in an assigned area of responsibility. The assigned area includes the VA Central Massachusetts Healthcare System facilities in Leeds, Greenfield, Springfield, Worcester, and Pittsfield Massachusetts. The incumbent manages a comprehensiveindustrial hygiene program, functions that includes the following: industrial shops, laboratories using hazardous materials, supply activities and warehouses where hazardousmaterial is stored and transported, building construction sites, biological research and other organizations with environments requiring industrial hygiene services. Serves as technical expert for a medical center and outpatient clinics on all industrial hygiene matters. Show less

  • Environment, Health and Safety Manager

    Sept 2014 - Oct 2019

  • Industrial Hygienist

    Aug 2009 - Sept 2014
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  US DEPARTMENT OF LABOR OSHA

  Oct 2019 - now

  Compliance Occupational Safety & Health Officer - Industrial Hygienist

  As a Compliance Occupational Health and Safety Officers I:1. Conduct interviews as appropriate with witnesses, employees, employers, medical personnel, law enforcement personnel, and/or other persons in order to identify potential symptoms of occupational illness, conditions and potential causes, and to obtain and communicate other case-related information. 2. Document case files with findings, completes forms, and attaches background notes and other material. Ensures case files are processed within the OSHA Information System in an accurate and timely manner and ensures proper annotation for reporting purposes and achievement of agency goals.3. Diagram workplace flow processes; documents descriptions of the work environment, operations, and equipment; and/or photographs operations as necessary, as well as documents measurements of conditions and worker exposure and potential injury from the hazard for complete case file documentation. 4. Document ongoing cases with relevant documentation to support a legally sufficient case.Testifies in contested court cases as a witness under oath and is subject to examinations conducted by attorneys representing both the agency and the employer.5. Explain requirements of safety and health standards; effective abatement of hazards; and/or other related matters.6. Identify and document hazards, proposes citations for OSHA standards which have allegedly been violated, and secures immediate corrective action of conditions which are of imminent danger.7. Conduct opening conferences with management officials, employees, and employee representatives concerning the nature and purpose of the inspection and the procedures which will be followed. Show less