Mark is Director of New Product Development for Ergo-Online where
he is involved in performing ergonomic assessments and the content
development of ergonomic educational products including seminars &
web based training modules. Mark also serves as Director of
Ergonomic and Biomechanical Services for MotionWatch, LLC where
he is involved in the development of ergonomic, rehabilitation and
biomechanical analysis technology.
He is certified by the Board of Certified Professional Ergonomists as a
Certified Ergonomic Associate and holds an additional certification by
the American College of Sports Medicine. Mark is currently the
National Co-Chair of the Occupational Injury Prevention
Rehabilitation Society, a member of the Human Factors and
Ergonomics Society and was accepted into the American Society of
Biomechanics in 1997. Mark graduated from the University of Kansas
with a Masters of Education degree in Biomechanics and Exercise
Physiology with emphasis in ergonomics, prevention and rehabilitation
of work related injuries. He received Honors for his thesis The Kinetic
Analysis of Lifting and Lowering Utilizing Chaffin’s Biomechanical
Model. Mark has presented nationally at the collegiate and professional
level and has acquired over 400 hours of continuing education in the
field of occupational health and ergonomics. Mark testified as an expert
witness in front of OSHA in July or 2000 regarding the controversial
ergonomic standard. In September of 2000 he presented supporting
documentation to the National Academy of Sciences regarding the
effectiveness of ergonomic interventions and the early identification of
musculoskeletal disorders.
UNION EXPERIENCE SUMMARY
Much of the work experience that has been presented has been performed within a wide
range companies and trades and therefore many diverse union environments. Services have
been performed at companies with the following union and association representation:
North American Needletrades Union
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE)
Kansas State Firefighters Association
National Postal Mail Handlers Union, Local 297 (NPMHU)
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME)
Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA)
Paper, Allied-Industrial, Chemical and Engineering Workers (PACE)
Utility Workers Union of America, Region IV (UWUA)
United Auto Workers (UAW-Ford)
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
The unions that I have had the most direct involvement regarding management, employees
and negotiations include the following:
North American Needletrads Union - Levi Strauss & Co.
American Federation of Government Employees - Internal Revenue Service, IRS.
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – State & Local
Governments
International Brotherhood of Teamsters – Numerous companies including UPS
Involvement with other unions listed has been less formal and at the employee or supervisor
level. In other situations consultation has also been provided to management regarding union
occupational health and ergonomic issues.
Recently I started a new project involving several postal workers in the Kansas City. The
project involves documenting physical demands associated with several postal positions and
performing functional capacity evaluations on several postal workers who have sustained
injuries. The data will be used to assess return-to-work options. Like other assessments I
have performed for the Postal Service, the employees are union members.
In addition to the practical experience provided above, in graduate school I took a Human
Resource Management class that dealt extensively with union legal and management issues.
Topics discussed included union history, legislation and union structure, labor relation law,
various labor and management relation Acts, union recognition and desertification and
collective bargaining and arbitration.