Steven Levine, Ph.D., C.I.H.

Emeritus Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Telephone: (561) 746-7595

E-mail: Email:: slih@umich.edu

Website(s): Personal Website

Professional Summary

The principle areas of research, teaching and practice are focused on Environmental Safety and Health (ES&H) management and policy. These areas of research include international standards for ensuring ES&H system quality, the international harmonization of ES&H management system assessment instruments, field testing of those instruments, third-party registration of ES&H management systems, and the relationship between U.S. national and international standards. The concept and practice of applying ISO-harmonized standards to the field of workplace occupational health and safety management systems (OHSMS) was pioneered by his group, starting in 1993. His doctoral students, Drs. Charles Redinger and David Dyjack, have especially distinguished themselves in this field.

Current research also includes exposure assessment methodology applied to a wide variety of occupational and environmental situations, with special emphasis to vinyl chloride monomer and diisocyanates.

He has been active in internationally. This past few years he has taught and lectured in Brasil, Bulgaria, China, Korea, Rumania, Saudi Arabia and Taiwan. Professor Levine is also an Adjunct Professor, Institute of International Health, Michigan State University.

As President of the American Industrial Hygiene Association in 2000-2001 he led and represented the profession in a variety of venues and on topics at the highest level.

Education

Ph.D., Analytical Chemistry, University of Colorado, 1972
B.S., Chemistry, City University of New York, 1965

Selected Publications

Redinger, C.F., Levine, S.P., Blotzer, M.J. and Majewski, M.P. (2002). Evaluation of an occupational health and safety management performance measurement tool - II. Scoring methods and field study sites. Amer Ind Hyg Assoc J, 63, 34-40.

Redinger, C.F., Levine, S.P., Blotzer, M.J. and Majewski, M.P. (2002). Evaluation of an occupational health and safety management performance measurement tool - III. Measurement of initiation elements. Amer Ind Hyg Assoc J, 63, 41-46.

Levine, S.P., Redinger, C.F. and Robert, W.P. (2001). Community exposure assessment and intervention effectiveness at Trinity of America Corporation,Glenola North Carolina. Amer Ind Hyg Assoc J, 62, 649-657.

Su, Z., Wang, S. and Levine, S.P. (2000). National occupational health service policies and progams for workers in small-scale industries in China. Amer Ind Hyg Assoc J, 61, 842-849.

Dyjack, D.t. and Levine, S.P. (1995). Development of an ISO 9000 compatible occupational health standard: defining the issues. Amer Ind Hyg Assoc J, 56, 599-609.