About
Hamid Arabzadeh is the founding Principal of HRA Environmental Consultants Inc. and teaches graduate Industrial Hygiene and Occupational Health classes for the UCLA Environmental Health Sciences department at the School of Public Health. He served on the advisory boards of Occupational and Environmental Health and Safety at the University of California as well as the California State University Workers Compensation reform board. Hamid was elected as a fellow of the American Industrial Hygiene Association and served as the chairman of its Fellows SIG. He has been active in the field of professional and corporate ethics and is Board Certified in Industrial Hygiene, safety professional and Hazardous materials management.
Hamid has worked with governmental and corporate entities in the US, Canada, Southeast Asia including Indonesia, Philippines, and Thailand, as well as the Netherlands and UK on environmental and worker protection efforts. Hamid and his team of industrial hygienists and occupational and public health professionals have developed several successful health and safety programs for major hospitals and healthcare facilities and have collected over 50,000 air, surface, bulk, area and personal samples for a wide variety of physical, biological and chemical agents in 13 countries in the last 25 years. These have included, Asbestos, Benzene, Toluene, Xylene, noise, vibration, illumination, heat and cold stress, radiation, mold, allergens, solvents, VOC’s, PAH’s, and MMMF (man-made Mineral Fibers), particulates, such as dust, silica, wood dust and others.
Areas of Interest
- Industrial Hygiene
- Exposure Assessment
- Occupational and Environmental Health
- Sampling Methods
- Community Outreach
What is your motivation for being in the field of Public Health/Occupational Health?
To combine my technical and scientific background with my passion to protect workers and the environment.
Fun fact or something interesting you'd like to share about yourself:
I have contributed to the concept that environmental and worker protection can be effective in societies with established democratic institutions
