Gary Chambers

This author did not see himself as a non-fiction writer outside of his regular work, but his desire to have workplace safety and health information presented more clearly and efficiently to both his peers and the public resulted in The Concise Guide to Workplace Safety & Health. Although he addresses serious and often complex matters, he adopts a relaxed writing style and, in addition, the judicious use of humor.

Gary Chambers has been an industrial hygiene consultant in the Los Angeles area since 2001, with his move to the semi-desert allowing him to be involved, somewhat ironically, with mold work for the first time in his career. Previously, he was a consultant with the State of Ohio's Division of Safety and Hygiene for 15 years, where he might be in a nail salon investigating odor complaints one day and measuring noise levels in a steel foundry the next. Earlier, he had been a safety program manager in the Department of Public Utilities, Columbus, Ohio, where he had the jaw-dropping opportunity to see the insides of large sewer systems.

Gary has a BA in economics from Heidelberg College (Tiffin, Ohio) and an MS in Preventive Medicine -- that's OK, no one else has heard of this degree either -- from The Ohio State University. (Thankfully, OSU now has a College of Public Health, and no longer offers this awkwardly named program. Go Bucks!) He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH) and a current member and past chair of the American Industrial Hygiene Association's (AIHA) Confined Spaces Technical Committee.

Gary edited the AIHA Confined Space Entry Protocol Guide, 2nd edition, 2001, and authored the confined spaces chapter in AIHA's Essential Resources for Industrial Hygiene, 2000. He claims that his terrible memory is what inspired the initial concept for the Concise Guide.