Our safety and regulatory expert, Janine McCartney, Ph.D., MBA, CSP, CHST, CSHO, CSHO, as a Certified Safety Professional, she has worked in chemical manufacturing, product manufacturing, wood products both logging and wood products manufacturing, heavy equipment, construction, refineries, petrochemical industry, pipeline construction, wellsite exploration and maritime port facilities. Dr. McCartney has worked as a wellsite geologist, exploration geologist, and pipeline regulatory expert in the field. She was one of the first women to work in the US as a Field Geologist. The three pictures below were taken in April 1974 on the Sun Oil Company Vermillion wells and on their helicopter pad, Offshore LA (Pictures taken by Walter Erwin, Sun Oil Company and Shelby Hodge, Reporter Houston Chronicle). Geologist in First picture on right is CC Candler, Sun Oil Company Geologist.

She has held safety positions with two Fortune 300 companies and served as a Safety Officer II with OSHA Consultation. Dr. McCartney is also an Adjunct Faculty with Texas Engineering Extension (TEEX) at Texas A&M University and has been an Outreach OSHA trainer for 18 years in Construction and General Industry. Her expertise is invaluable in providing top-tier safety consulting, Safety Expert Witness services for contests to federal agency citations and Whistleblower cases, Contest to OSHA Citations, and litigation expert witness services (including depositions and trial testimony).

Janine McCartney, Ph.D., MBA, CSP, CHST, CSHO, CSHO, has experience in trial and deposition testimony and is a true regulatory expert. Having worked for OSHA Consultation as a Safety Officer II, she has expert knowledge of OSHA policy and how the agency administers their policies, such as the Multi-employer Worksite Citation policy. She has been complimented in case after case by attorney’s who have stated that her Expert an d Rebuttal Reports are the best that they have read in their career. Her experience as a technical Expert in the take or pay litigation of the 1980’s and 1990’s have proved to be invaluable foundation to her has an Expert Witness. She has been designated as an expert in cases involving: the Jones Act, Manufacturing accidents, wood product manufacturing cases, Construction Accidents, oil and gas well site accidents, rig collapse cases, refinery catastrophic accidents, utility catastrophic accidents, scaffold collapses, construction equipment accidents, trench collapses, electrocutions, Arc Flash catastrophic accidents, food manufacturing equipment failures and fatality litigation, product defect cases, bakery equipment failure cases, offshore Jones Act cases, maritime port cases, warehousing litigation, catastrophic fire cases, catastrophic pipeline cases, regulatory pipeline cases regarding gathering lines, intrastate and interstate pipelines, chemical exposures to employees, electrical accidents, building fires due to electrical causes, and more.

Congratulations to our Expert Witness for her accomplishments, dedication to our clients and to the safety profession. A career well spent!