Gregory Heldt Email & Phone Number

Mayfield Heights, Ohio, United States

• Support management in achieving compliance with the OSHA Beryllium standard, includingimplementation of the site written exposure control plan (WECP) and beryllium management plan (BMP), coordination of industrial.
• Direct supervision and scheduling of EHS technicians and EHS co-ops to achieve industrial hygiene and environmental sampling objectives;
• Ongoing responsibility for all duties listed below under Staff Environmental Engineer position

Northwest Ohio

• Responsible for compliance with Ohio and US EPA Clean Air Act regulations, including oversight of Title V operating air permit, pollution control devices, and associated reporting; o Obtain air permits and permit.
• Management of the Elmore beryllium NESHAP ambient air network to characterize site beryllium releases
• Designation as plant Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) responsible for worker radiation safety and compliance with Ohio Department of Health radioactive materials license and x-ray registration regulations
• Completion of annual EPCRA Toxic Release Inventory reports characterizing all plant chemical releases and pollution prevention activities for air, water, and waste streams; submittal of NPDES monthly discharge reports

Conducted an epidemiological investigation into value and effectiveness of the beryllium bronchoalveolar lymphocyte proliferation test (BeBALLPT) for the diagnosis of beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease among workers exposed to beryllium dusts and salts. Research paper published in Inhalation Toxicology. Supervisor: Dr. David C. Deubner

Elmore, OH

• Completed extensive air and surface sampling to characterize environmental/occupational exposures to beryllium dusts during chemical/industrial processes
• Piloted a sampling project to utilize remote particle counters to provide real-time environmental characterizations and alert EHS to potentially high concentrations of beryllium dust
• Created a visual characterization of beryllium dust migration throughout the site's pebble plant where beryllium hydroxide is chemically engineered into pure beryllium pebbles.
• Industrial hygiene, environmental health and safety, OSHA compliance, job safety analysis

• Environmental Health Science / Epidemiology
• Teaching Assistant for graduate-level biostatistics courses under Dr. Farhang Akbar-Khanzadeh
• Participation in the on-going environmental characterization of a local high school's indoor air quality with an emphasis on particulates, microbiological communities, thermal parameters, and VOCs
• Organization, calibration, and inspection of sampling instrumentation within student laboratory

• Developed and implemented the Charity Review Program for Northwest Ohio as part of a nationwide program that helps donors make informed giving decisions and advances high standards of conduct among organizations that.
• Educated and evaluated over 300 charities on ethical behavior, efficiency, and public transparency.
• Provided personal consultations with non-profit executives to assist them in meeting BBB ethical standards.
• Researched, compiled and released the BBB's first Charity Giving Guide, a 46 page donor resource providing in-depth evaluations on hundreds of local charities.
• Appeared on television; provided newspaper articles alerting public of potential charity frauds.
• Spearheaded national efforts to design and adopt a letter grading system for evaluating charities.

Master Of Public Health (Mph)

Master Of Science (Ms)

Ba, Cum-Laude