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Andrew "Tony" Havics

Limited Term Lecturer

School of Health Sciences

Biography

Mr. Havics is an Honors graduate from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH), and a registered Professional Engineer (PE) with over 35 years of experience in environmental, health and safety, building science, and materials science consulting. He is a Limited Term Lecturer at Purdue in West Lafayette and adjunct faculty at the McCrone Research Institute in Chicago. He was formerly adjunct faculty at both IU School of Medicine and IUPUI.  Mr. Havics is a former Chair of the Workplace Environmental Exposure Limit (WEEL) Committee that has set over 100 exposure limits for hazardous agents.  He is also the Past President of the Failure Analysis Society (FAS).   Mr. Havics has worked on numerous insurance claims as well as litigation and has testified in federal court as an expert engineer and microscopist.

Education

  • BME, 1992, GA Tech
  • Certified Industrial Hygienist (CIH)
  • Professional Engineer (PE)

Areas of Expertise

  • Exposure Assessment
  • Risk Assessment
  • Bioaerosols
  • Engineering Controls of Hazardous Substances
  • Exposure Limits

Selected Publications

  • Havics, A.A. "Tony" and Bernstein, D.M.: Serpentine and Amphibole Asbestos [A Subset of Elongated Mineral Particles (EMPs)]. In Patty's Toxicology, 7th Ed (Edited by Dennis Paustenbach, William Farland, Helmut Greim, James Klaunig and Len Levy), pp. 1-59, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/0471125474.tox012.pub3
  • Andrew A. (Tony) Havics, Andrey Korchevskiy, Cheryl L. Marcham, Francis J. Offermann, R. and Christopher Spicer: Chapter 10: Data Analysis, Evaluation, and Interpretation, in Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control, 2nd ed, Marcham, C & J. Springston, Eds, ACGIH, Cincinnati, OH, 201-243, 2024
  • Andrew A. (Tony) Havics, A, James A. Scott, Cheryl L. Marcham, and Paul Hamilton: Chapter 21: Algae and Cyanobacteria, in Bioaerosols: Assessment and Control, 2nd ed, Marcham, C & J. Springston, Eds, ACGIH, Cincinnati, OH, 421-435, 2024
  • Havics, Andrew Anthony, and R. Christopher Spicer: 10.4 Whose Soot Is It Anyway? in Solving Problems with Microscopy, Real-life Examples in Forensic, Life and Chemical Sciences, Reffner, John A., and Brooke Kammrath, Eds. pp. 253-266, 2023.

Professional Affiliations

  • American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Occupational Exposure Level (OEL) Committee
  • UIAA, International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation Safety Commisssion
  • Failure Analysis Society (FAS)