Industrial Hygiene and Safety Support Services

This opportunity is for industrial hygiene and safety support services for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The NIH is seeking a contractor to provide support services for its occupational health and safety program, including industrial hygiene, toxicology, and safety services. The contractor will be responsible for providing a range of services, including respiratory protection and fit testing, ergonomic evaluations, hazard and risk assessments, and primary barrier oversight. The contractor will also provide radiation safety services, including weekly or monthly surveys of areas posted for radioactive materials and compliance inspections. The NIH is looking for a contractor with experience in providing industrial hygiene and safety services in a biomedical research setting. Some of the key services that the contractor will be expected to provide include: • Industrial hygiene services, including respiratory protection and fit testing, ergonomic evaluations, and hazard and risk assessments • Radiation safety services, including weekly or monthly surveys of areas posted for radioactive materials and compliance inspections • Occupational health and safety services, including employee monitoring and exposure assessments • Biosafety services, including consultation and guidance on biosafety-related issues • Program management and support services, including occupational health and safety program development and media production and publishing • Environmental health services, including food facility inspections and sanitation audits • Safety support services, including comprehensive occupational safety support for laboratories, industrial, and construction workspaces • Toxicological risk assessments, including evaluating chemical properties to develop occupational exposure limits • Statistical support services, including the statistical design and evaluation of industrial hygiene and safety-related metrics • Safety training coordination, including scheduling and coordinating safety training classes • Safety training services, including developing and teaching safety courses on laboratory, industrial, and construction safety topics • Confined space safety training, including teaching confined space entry and rescue training • Laboratory safety and bloodborne pathogens training, including updating online laboratory safety trainings • Safety culture consulting, including assessing an organization's safety culture and developing safety culture training and workshops • Environmental microbial monitoring program, including collecting air and surface samples in accordance with United States Pharmacopeia standards • Radiation safety services, including comprehensive health physics/radiation safety support services.