Richard Engler

Rick Engler was nominated by President Obama to the US Chemical Safety Board in January of 2014 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in December 2014. Before his appointment, Mr. Engler spent more than four decades helping to prevent hazards, including to ensure that workers and the public had a “right to know” about chemical dangers. He also helped lead successful efforts to achieve landmark state and national policies on hazard communication, adoption of inherently safer processes, worker participation and whistleblower protection. Mr. Engler was founder and Director of the New Jersey Work Environment Council and the Philadelphia Area Project on Occupational Safety and Health and was an elected Vice President of the NJ Industrial Union Council, AFL-CIO. Mr. Engler also served on the NJ Department of Health Occupational Health Surveillance Advisory Committee. As a CSB Board Member, his specific interests include modernization of process safety safeguards.