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Specialty Technical Consultants
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Unique features of STC's services include: program design and performance improvement processes that are implemented company-wide; appropriate support tools that simplify regulatory compliance; and integrated audits of compliance actions and management systems that support greater effectiveness and risk reduction. STC's activities fall into the following five basic categories: STC's regulatory specialists have been involved directly in the technical committees and professional organizations that have developed the EHS auditing process that we have today. They are leaders in the Audit Roundtable, for example; and were called upon recently to prepare the management systems examination for the Board of Environmental Auditing Certification (BEAC). STC's audits and related consulting services are conducted by EHS professionals, including management consultants, scientists, and engineers who have considerable experience in development of EHS management systems, EHS regulations, plant operations, control technology, and risk management. Experience.STC's specialists have provided a broad spectrum of auditing and management systems services to clients worldwide. These include clients in the following industries: aerospace, chemicals, computers and semiconductors, food, general manufacturing, oil and petroleum, and pharmaceuticals and biotech. STC operates from its head office in Oakland (CA) and branch offices in Albuquerque, Baltimore, Boise, Boston, Houston, and Los Angeles. STC Contributors to STP Publications: Randy Roig, PhD
Principal and co-founder of STC, Dr. Roig is recognized nationally and internationally as a leader in the fields of EHS auditing and management systems development. He has 26 years of experience in EHS management for the aerospace, food, manufacturing, medical, pharmaceutical, semiconductor, transportation, and utility industries. Dr. Roig has designed and developed many environmental audit, risk, and evaluation programs. He pioneered implementation of root cause analysis in environmental auditing and developed new processes to implement ISO 14000 at reduced costs. Dr. Roig helped design and direct corporate EHS evaluation programs as Director of Environmental Information Services for Martin Marietta. He has also been responsible for licensing and evaluating electric power generation facilities when he served as director of the Maryland Power Plant Siting Agency. His present concentration is on strategic compliance evaluation and management, with an emphasis on implementation systems. Dr. Roig is a lead auditor for ISO 14000 and 9000 (leading 38 certifications), and has participated in several OHSAS 18001 health and safety assessments. To date, 18 of the sites for which he has developed management systems have been certified to the ISO 14001 Standard. Melanie Power-Schanbacher, CPEA Melanie Powers-Schanbacher, CPEA, is a Principal with STC and has over 15 years of experience in EHS compliance and management systems. Melanie has served as the audit team leader for EHS compliance and management systems audits in the chemical, pharmaceutical, consumer products, petroleum and utility sectors, as well as a variety of industrial manufacturing operations. She has provided third-party review and oversight to clients developing internal audit and self-assessment programs, including developing audit procedures and protocols, auditor training programs, and audit program metrics, evaluation processes and management reporting criteria. She is a member of the Auditing Roundtable and a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA) in Environmental Compliance and Environmental, Health and Safety Management Systems. Melanie serves the Manual Lead for STP’s Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide. She is the STC author responsible for maintaining the wastewater compliance sections of the Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide and Environmental State Differences Regulatory Guides and Checklists published by Specialty Technical Publishers. Curtis J. Johnson, CPEA Curtis J. Johnson, CPEA and STC Principal, has more than 25 years of experience in development and implementation of effective environmental, health and safety (EHS) management systems solutions. A former Corporate Vice-President of EHS Auditing at Browning-Ferris Industries, Curt’s consulting efforts focus on implementation and auditing of management systems, permit acquisition, and management of complex site development issues. Recent projects include auditing of manufacturing, pharmaceutical, energy, waste, and transportation facilities for a variety of clients; developing compliance programs for an electronics manufacturer; and providing hazardous materials management assistance for a global telecommunications firm. He is a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA) in all four disciplines: Management Systems, Responsible Care© Management Systems, Environmental Compliance, and Health and Safety Compliance. Curt is an active member of the Auditing Roundtable, and has served as its President. He has also served as Chair or Vice-Chair of the Ethics Committee of the Board of Environmental Auditor Certifications (BEAC) since its inception and is the 2005 recipient of the BEAC Chairman’s Leadership Award. Curt serves as the Manual Lead for STP’s ISO 14001 Environmental Management Systems: A Complete Implementation Guide and Pipeline Safety Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide. He is also a contributing author for STP’s Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide and is responsible for maintaining the Drinking Water and Radiation sections of this guide. Joseph B. Cotier, CPEA Joseph B. Cotier, CPEA is an STC Principal and has more than 19 years of professional experience providing compliance auditing and EHS management systems support services to a broad range of industrial clients. Through more than 350 EHS audits and management systems consulting projects in more than 35 states and 20 countries, Joe has demonstrated expertise with complex industrial settings including petroleum refining and chemical manufacturing, electric utilities, breweries, and consumer and pharmaceutical products manufacturing. Client success has been achieved by his providing clients with practical guidance to maintain consistency and demonstrate forward thinking in programs from compliance support systems through third-party audits. Joe is an air emissions expert with particular strengths in emissions inventories, leak detection and repair, and a wide variety of MACT programs; his professional history includes having performed inspections and managed compliance orders as a Senior Air Pollution Control Engineer for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. He is a BEAC Certified Professional Environmental Auditor and recently completed his fourth year on the Board of Directors for The Auditing Roundtable, having served as Secretary, Vice President and President, and now serves the Roundtable as a strategic advisor. Joe is a contributing author for STP’s Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide and the Environmental State Differences Summary, and is responsible for maintaining the Air Quality sections of these guides. Russ Boesch, CPEA, CHMM Russ Boesch, CPEA, CHMM, is an STC Senior Program Director with more than 21 years of experience conducting environmental compliance and management systems audits, regulatory analysis, and environmental management consulting. He has managed and performed more than 300 EHS compliance audits at facilities throughout the United States in a wide variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, utilities, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, optical devices, laboratories, foods, electronics, petroleum refining, chemical manufacturing, commercial hazardous waste TSDFs, cruise ships, educational institutions, and federal government installations. Russ has performed environmental management systems ( Russ serves as the manual lead for STP’s DOT Hazmat Transport and Motor Carrier Safety: Federal Regulatory Guide and Fire Code Management of Hazardous Materials: The Essential Guide. He is also a contributing author for STP’s Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide and the Environmental State Differences Summary, and is responsible for maintaining the Hazardous Materials section of the Environmental Auditing Federal Compliance Guide, and the Drinking Water and Hazardous Materials sections of the Environmental State Differences Guide. Robert Brown CIH, CSP, CHMM STC's Senior Director of EHS Compliance Programs. Mr. Brown has over 20 years of professional experience in practical application of environmental, health and safety (EHS) requirements and operational management. He also has extensive experience assisting clients develop and implement EHS programs, both compliance and management systems. He has experience primarily in chemical manufacturing, semiconductor manufacturing, hazardous and solid waste management, and transportation. Mr. Brown had had global responsibility for EHS programs while working for a Fortune 100 firm. He has developed EHS programs for variety of industries, spoken as an expert in a variety of subjects, contributed to several publications, and served on national committees for confined spaces and EHS management. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist, a Certified Safety Professional, and a Certified Hazardous Materials Manager. Mr. Brown is a primary contributor to several of STP's federal and state OSHA audit/compliance guides. Gregory J. Haet, P.E., REA Gregory J. Haet, P.E., REA has a wide range of experience in both environmental management and engineering. Experienced in EH&S program management, with particular specialization in air quality, he has completed numerous permitting, auditing, abatement design, odor mitigation, and risk analysis projects for clients in California and nationwide. Greg has also managed a full-service chemical and radioactive waste program for a large university, and has recently gained additional specialization in construction site EHS management, stormwater pollution mitigation, underground storage tank inspection and compliance, and sustainability assessment. Greg is a contributing author for STP’s Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide and the Environmental State Differences Summary, and is responsible for maintaining the Air Quality sections of these guides. Deborah Hunsicker STC's Senior Regulatory Specialist directs the Kathy McKinney-Tovar, REA Has over 7 years of environmental management experience and is a certified ISO 14001 Lead Auditor. Recently, Ms. McKinney-Tovar performed an ISO gap analysis and compliance audit at a West Coast electronics manufacturing facility to ensure that it would meet the intent of the ISO 14001 standard at the corporate level. She provided technical assistance to address regulatory compliance and environmental management systems findings from the audit and gap analysis, coordinating and integrating the work with the existing quality management program. Ms. McKinney-Tovar also assisted the firm to modify and prepare required plans and programs to address applicable EH&S requirements. She has extensive experience in successfully managing complex regulatory compliance projects and in preparing regulatory-based policies and compliance management documents like the new Preventive Maintenance manuals. In another recent assignment, she developed environmental compliance information guidance for an oil company's 23 different facilities in California and Nevada. She has also developed audit protocols for a variety of industries that addressed environmental regulations in varying levels of detail. Ms. McKinney-Tovar is a principal contributor to STP's Environmental Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide, Environmental Auditing: California Compliance Guide, and Environmental State Differences Summary. Barbara Jo Ruble, QEP, CPEA Directs STC's Baltimore office and is the firm's Director of EHS Management Services. She has more than 24 years of experience helping corporations to develop, assess, and improve their EHS management systems and compliance programs; and is a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP) and a Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA) for both ISO 14000 and compliance auditing. Ms. Ruble has assisted clients in a variety of industries to implement ISO 14001 management systems and obtain certification. She has developed comprehensive EHS guidance manuals, training programs, and multi-media auditing protocols for various industrial clients. In the past five years alone, she has performed more than 70 EHS compliance audits or management systems assessments of industrial facilities worldwide. She has also provided independent review of corporate EHS auditing programs and performed special-issue audits such as product liability assessments and emergency preparedness reviews. Her ability to put EHS issues in laymen's language and find practical solutions to complex problems helps her provide solution-oriented audit services. A member of The Auditing Roundtable since 1989, Ms. Ruble currently serves as its Vice President. She was a principal author of this group's Standard for the Design and Implementation of an Environmental, Health, and Safety Audit Program. Ms. Ruble is a major contributor to STP's ISO 14001 Implementation Guide and to the OHSAS 18001 Health and Safety Management Systems, scheduled for publication in 2003. Rebecca Schaeffer Director of STC's Albuquerque office, is the firm's Director of EHS Training Services. She is a former EHS manager with Valent, a national agricultural chemical company. Ms. Schaeffer has over 15 years of experience in translating RCRA, FIFRA, HAZWOPER, and TSCA regulations into corporate programs, policies, and procedures. She has developed and implemented corporate auditing programs that covered supply chain partners (chemical manufacturers, warehouses, TSDF's, research farms, laboratories, and transporters) as well as facilities owned and operated by the corporation itself. Ms. Schaeffer developed extensive EHS training programs for delivery for up to 1,000 people; she also created web-based training courses. Ms. Schaeffer is the lead author for STP's OSHA Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide - Facilities; all three regulatory training guides (Regulatory Training Requirements Guide - Federal, California, and Healthcare Facilities);. and the federal and California Vehicle Maintenance Facilities Guides. After serving as an Incident Commander with an emergency response team for 9 years, she now presents both 8- and 40-hour HAZWOPER training classes. Deborah Shewitz, CSP, PHA
Deborah Shewitz is based in Martinsville, NJ and has over 25 years of professional experience in EHS management, almost 20 of which were spent in various safety and environmental management positions in the pharmaceutical and chemical manufacturing industries. She is a Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and Process Hazard Analysis (PHA) Leader and principal of Shewitz Consulting LLC, a teaming partner with Specialty Technical Consultants (STC). Her consulting practice now focuses on EHS auditing and on implementing new EHS programs for start-up and expanding businesses. She has particular expertise in chemical management and process safety, hazardous waste identification and management, and general safety issues. Debby serves as the Manual Lead for STP’s OSHA Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide: Facilities - The Complete Safety and Health Audit Checklists, OSHA Auditing: Federal Compliance Guide: Construction - The Complete Safety and Health Audit Checklist, and the State Differences: OSHA Regulatory Guides and Checklists. She is also a contributing author for STP’s California Occupational Health and Safety Audit Guide. |
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