Expert Services in Industrial Safety, Hygiene, and Indoor Environmental Quality
The DOTSON Group, LLC provides expert occupational safety, industrial hygiene and indoor environmental management consulting services. The company is based in the San Francisco Bay Area (San Jose, CA) and serves corporate and legal clients nationwide. Kyle B. Dotson, CIH, CSP, BCEE, the company's principal consultant, has personally conducted occupational safety audits, industrial hygiene surveys and environmental reviews of a thousand industrial workplaces. He has evaluated the indoor air quality of a hundred commercial buildings and thousands residential homes. His 25 years of experience includes serving as the senior-most technical executive for Safety, Health and Environmental at three Fortune500 global corporations.
The DOTSON Group is a highly specialized boutique firm offering only expert-level occupational safety and industrial hygiene consultation and witness services. Clients benefit from a broad and deep understanding of professional safety and health management practices and standards. Our expertise is focused specifically on the cost-effective design, implementation, and continuous improvement of environmental health and safety management systems that enable the corporate-wide anticipation, recognition, evaluation and control of workplace injuries and occupational/environmental disease risks.
Management Consulting services include executive safety leadership coaching and improvement of EHS management information systems.Click here to link to a recent article in the Professional Safety Journal of the American Society Safety Engineers on the topic of Executive Safety Leadership with the late great safety expert, Dan Petersen.
Technical Services include accurate and cost-effective assessment of corporate workplace industrial hygiene exposures, including other critical environmental exposure scenarios such as healthcare facility construction nosocomial risks. The company conducted water intrusion related mold exposure assessments of over 3000 primarily residential buildings in Texas and continues to offer such services in California when associated with litigation.
Other technical services include independent professional Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) advisory and support services to assist real estate owners and operators in the development and completion of the required Preliminary Site Assessment Work Plan (PSAWP) and Final Report in accordance with the State of California Methamphetamine Contaminated Property Cleanup Act of 2005.
Legal Support services of Kyle Dotson have included serving as an consulting and/or testifying expert witness in workplace injury and wrongful death litigation involving a wide range of toxic tort issues including occupational exposure to asbestos (including state-of-the-art and semi-quantitative dose reconstruction), crystalline silica and welding fume, insurance loss control, and water intrusion related "toxic" mold indoor environmental quality and construction defect litigation.
Services have been provided to a wide range of clients, including the international mining, manufacturing, construction, insurance, healthcare, real estate investment trust, and food and beverage industries, as well as the legal profession.
Thank you for your interest. For additional information, please contact Kyle Dotson by email at kyle@dotsongroup.com, or by phone at 408-978-0138, or by fax at 408-978-0168.