reagan branch

Overview: Ms. Branch is a Board-Certified Industrial Hygienist and Safety Professional with over 20 years of comprehensive Occupational Safety and Health experience in both Construction and General Industry. She has worked for federal and local government agencies to enforce regulatory compliance and has provided comprehensive compliance assistance as an EHS consultant.  Ms. Branch has managed and conducted audits of owner and contractor H&S programs at construction sites and has performed industrial hygiene surveys involving lead and other indoor air quality issues.  She routinely conducts H&S training programs for construction safety, PPE, Hazard Communication and Fire and Life Safety. 

Ms. Branch began her career as a Public Health Sanitarian for the City of New York, Dept. of Health responsible for lead paint control within the city’s schools, housing, and shelters. She monitored abatements, conducted sampling programs, training and community outreach. For 10 years, Ms. Branch was an OSHA Compliance Officer with the US Dept. of Labor, assigned to the New York City Office. She conducted IH and safety inspections of city construction sites—this included sites associated with the WTC demolition and rebuild. Ms. Branch has provided construction safety consulting and site safety services for over 9 years with Pyramid Safety & Health Solutions and USA Interior

 I started PSHS while working for Federal OSHA out of there realization that small business did not know about regulatory requirements to keep their staff safety or even about OSHA.  They started a business and went about doing work without implementing safe guards for their workers. Unlike with local licensing agency when forming a business you learn about permit requirements but information is given about Occupational Safety & Health Standards. The big firm knew of the requirements and had dedicated safety managers as part of their business. They would negotiate with the agencies if fined but small firms were completely unaware and were saddle with large fine and some worker suffered serious injuries or died on the job. They didnt know what they didnt know. I thought that I could solve the problem by providing a-la-cart safety management and consulting services. I discovered there were were few small companies that saw the value or were interested. I saw there was opportunity to leverage my knowledge in the large safety market and provide third party safety management services as some contracts required and to fill in for shortages.