Julia K. Diebol, Ph.D. Candidate

Ms. Diebol is a Managing Consultant in the Human Factors and Product Safety Group. Her professional activities include research and analysis of standards and regulations for risk communication, chemical hazard communications, and product and occupational safety.

Ms. Diebol has evaluated the adequacy of numerous hazard and risk communications in industrial, consumer, and community settings, including materials from the 1970s and earlier. She also has extensive experience researching and analyzing historical and current OSHA, CPSC, and EPA regulations and consensus standards for hazard communication. In addition, Ms. Diebol has conducted research related to warnings and age guidelines for youth all-terrain vehicles (ATVs).

Ms. Diebol is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, researching receiver perceptions of hazard and exposure information in the context of environmental contamination. She is also a certified product safety manager (C.P.S.M.), an associate student member of the University of Michigan Risk Science Center, and an active member of the Society for Chemical Hazard Communication.