Profile: Chip Darius, OHST, CET, EMT.

Safety Priority Consultants, LLC
110 Court Street Suite 1
Cromwell, CT 06416
Phone: 860-978-9899 / Toll Free: 800-809-0059
Fax: 860.760-6264

Mr. Chip Darius provides safety training and OSHA compliance consulting services for business, industry, construction, utilities, and emergency services.

Chip is an experienced litigation consultant and expert witness for cases involving catastrophic injury, fatality, personal injury, and workplace safety -- plaintiff and defense, state and federal. Testimony experience in depositions and in court. CV available upon request.

Chip is president of Safety Priority Consultants, LLC. Established in 2000, Safety Priority has served over 750 client companies in more than 30 states.

Areas of specialty include:

• Teaching, training, instructional design and adult learners.
• Accident/incident investigation.
• Forklifts and material handling safety.
• Slips, trips and falls involving floors, steps, curbs, stairs, walkways, platforms.
• Amputation, crush, machine injuries and machine safeguarding.
• Fall protection and work at heights.
• Ladders, scaffolds, platforms, aerial boom lifts, scissor lifts, and personnel lifts.
• Workplace and job site inspections and audits.
• Flaggers, temporary traffic control and work zone safety.
• OSHA compliance plans, assessments, and reports.

Education/Licenses

Qualifications include:

• Over 20 years experience in safety & OSHA compliance consulting and training.
• Over 10 years as Instructor for the OSHA Training Institute Region 1 Education Center at Keene State College, teaching OSHA regulations courses.
• Authorized OSHA Outreach Trainer, teaching both Construction and General Industry programs.
• Accomplished teacher, writer, trainer, and facilitator.
• BS and MA degrees from The University of Connecticut.

Certifications include:

• Occupational Health & Safety Technologist (OHST).
• Certified Environmental Safety & Health Trainer (CET).
• Forklift Safety Technician (FST).
• Scaffold Competent Person Trainer.
• Certified Walkway Auditor Safety Specialist.
• Certified Instructional Technologist (CIT).
• Flagger Instructor and work zone safety trainer.
• SafeStart behavior based safety trainer.
• Emergency Care First Aid, CPR & AED Instructor Trainer.
• Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) since 1980.

Honors include:

• Conference presenter - international, national, regional, states, and associations.
• Selected 4 times as "one of the best" expert witness & litigation consulting firms, as voted by Connecticut attorneys in Connecticut Law Tribune.
• Faculty for the 2014 SEAK National Expert Witness Conference.

Professional Associations:

• American Society of Safety Engineers
• Associated General Contractors of America
• CT Construction Industries Association
• National Association of Safety Professionals
• National Environmental Safety & Health Training Association
• National Fire Protection Association
• National Floor Safety Institute
• National Safety Council
• Scaffold & Access Industry Association