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 Benjamin Hestir, P.E. 

Benjamin Hestir, P.E. is a licensed professional environmental engineer and industrial hygienist.  He has worked with apartment owner/managers on environmental health & safety issues within the apartment industry for 14 years in both conventional and affordable housing.  At different times in his career he has been the haz waste guy, the OSHA regs guy, the asbestos guy, the lead-based paint guy, the mold guy, the meth lab guy and the bedbug guy.  He provides Project Management, Procurement, Training and Consulting Services. He is an Environmental Group Manager for Froehling & Robertson, Inc. and can be reached at 864/271-2840 or by sending e-mail to bhestir@FandR.com.

12/5/2011
If someone had told me twenty years ago while I was hunkered down in graduate school that in the future I would have to dodge drivers on the highway who were massively distracted due to the use of a computer that fit in the palm of their hand that they were using WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, I would have told them they were crazy! But, here we are in 2011 and that is exactly what is happening every day.
Byline: Benjamin Hestir, P.E. - Environmental Group Manager | Read Full Post
3/8/2011
Sometimes the simplest changes are the hardest to implement. Safety training is about achieving behavioral change, and getting people to change their routine, even in a seemingly minor way, can be hard to accomplish unless the individuals involved “buy in” on the benefit (to them – not you) outweighing the effort to change that work habit.
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1/25/2011
Of all the things I tend to take for granted (sometimes) in life, breathing is one of the basics. As in: sun’s gonna rise, my heart is still thumping, got air, and they took taxes out of my check.
Byline: Benjamin Hestir, P.E. - Environmental Consultant | Read Full Post
1/10/2011
Ask your typical apartment maintenance person what a CFL is and they’ll tell you, why of course it’s the Canadian Football League, where undersized football stars go to finish their careers! While that is true, in the ever more green, sustainable, eco-friendly, low carbon footprint, renewable and recyclable world of business these days, a CFL is actually a compact fluorescent lightbulb.
Byline: Benjamin Hestir, P.E. - Environmental Consultant | Read Full Post
12/8/2010
When I mention bedbugs to my apartment management clients, they almost unanimously roll their eyes and make gestures as if they are praying that this new scourge does not descend on their specific property. Some form a cross with their fingers as if to ward off these little vampires of the insect world.
Byline: Benjamin Hestir, P.E. - Environmental Consultant | Read Full Post