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How We Help Our Clients
Professional Workshops
Stay compliant and build a facility-wide culture of safety with our online and on-site workshops.
Free Risk Assessment Tools
Tap into LabRat and other expert-built, free to use, tools for field-tested risk assessment.
Dr. Elston has helped facilities like yours build innovative, field-ready solutions to safety challenges since founding Midwest Chemical Safety in 1996. While current clients know Dr. Elston as the go-to authority for preventative and corrective chemical and occupational measures, you might be asking:
Dr. Elston began his career as a physical chemist and a former US Naval Nuclear Engineer. While serving as a lieutenant on the USS Theodore Roosevelt he specialized in chemical and radiological safety. Following graduate school he specialized in reactive chemical safety, chemical and radiological exposure control and general industrial hygiene.
His many professional publications include serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Health & Safety from 1999-2019. He has won the Howard Fawcett Chemical Health and Safety Award from the Division of Chemical Health and Safety of the American Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Want to read more about his career accomplishments? View Dr. Elston’s full CV here.
The best way to meet Dr. Elston? Read what his clients have to say below- or contact him here to discuss your safety needs.
MEET THE FOUNDER
Harry J. Elston PhD, CIH, PMP
Dr. Elston has helped facilities like yours build innovative, field-ready solutions to safety challenges since founding Midwest Chemical Safety in 1996. Dr. Elston is the go-to authority for preventative and corrective chemical and occupational measures.
Dr. Elston began his career as a physical chemist and a former US Naval Nuclear Engineer. While serving as a lieutenant on the USS Theodore Roosevelt he specialized in chemical and radiological safety. Following graduate school he specialized in reactive chemical safety, chemical and radiological exposure control and general industrial hygiene.
His many professional publications include serving as the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Chemical Health & Safety from 1999-2019. He has won the Howard Fawcett Chemical Health and Safety Award from the Division of Chemical Health and Safety of the American Chemical Society and is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society.
Want to read more about his career accomplishments?
View Dr. Elston’s full CV here.
The best way to meet Dr. Elston? Read what his clients have to say below- or contact him here to discuss your safety needs.
Why Clients Choose Midwest Chemical Safety
Harry was contracted to provide our annual Hazmat team training for a 40+ member team at a large pharmaceutical R&D facility. He presented an excellent training session, coordinated our live chemical spill scenario, and provided valuable feedback to the team during our post-scenario critique.Harry worked closely with team leaders to develop the training and scenario that best met our unique needs. I highly recommend Harry.
– LinkedIn Endorsement By Kathy B.
Any good safety professional knows that true safety lies in the hands of the workers…His knowledge of chemical processes, combined with a rare ability to break down issues in such a manner that everyone in the room understands the real issues, is unparalleled in my multiple decades of experience in safety. Got chemicals? Call Elston and sleep easy.
-LinkedIn Endorsement By Diane J.R., Amita Health
Dr. Harry Elston is an expert on Industrial Hygiene (CIH) and a wealth of information for the chemical industry. He was the driving force to accomplish our transition from MSDS to SDS’s for Texmark Chemicals and Chemical Exchange Industries for all the product lines. Midwest Chemical Safety authored SDS’s for all the product lines and had them in place prior to deadline.
-LinkedIn Endorsement by Rebecca Rosas, VP Strategic Planning Texmark
Harry is not just a good, knowledgeable, and particular scientist and top of the line editor in chief for JCHAS, but he is also a terrific person, tell it as it is, and works well with colleagues. Any questions dealing with Health and safety (especially radiation safety), Harry is the Man.
-LinkedIn Endorsement by Mikhail Alnajjar, Senior Scientist at Battelle PNW Lab