Battling Biohazards: Diving Into Thomas Licker's Cleanup Crusade
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 September 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today, we connect with Thomas Licker to discuss his decades of experience managing biohazard investigations and remediations. As a certified bio-environmental infection control remediator and recovery master, Thomas serves as the president of the American Bio-Recovery Association. Here, he has helped create and publish the Bio Recovery Site Risk Assessment (BSRA) guidance document and the Restoration Industry Association (RIA) Environmental Risk Specialist (ERS) program.
Thomas studied environmental science in college. After researching soil, brown water, air, and industrial hygiene, he found himself working for the US Environmental Protection Agency as a contractor — remediating some of the nation's worst sites. Now, he is in the biohazard response industry full-time, a field of work he has discovered a deep passion for…
In this conversation, we cover:
- What biohazard response is, and why it is a necessary service.
- How to properly respond to biohazard scenes.
- OSHA requirements for this type of work.
- How the opioid crisis impacts Thomas's work in biohazard remediation.
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| 0:43.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast, not part of the Finding Genius Foundation. |
| 0:44.0 | My guest is Thomas Licker. |
| 0:45.4 | He's the president of American BioRecovery Association. |
| 0:48.9 | They work with biohazardous and hazardous materials. |
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