Rick Rinehart

Rick Rinehart is Deputy Director at CPWR—The Center for Construction Research and Training. He holds a doctorate in occupational health and a master’s in industrial hygiene from the Harvard School of Public Health. He has worked at NIOSH, where he helped launch the Prevention through Design Initiative, and served as an epidemiologist in OSHA’s Directorate of Construction. Rick is currently the Principal Investigator of the CPWR Building Trades National Medical Screening Program (BTMed), which provides free medical screening exams to former construction workers from Department of Energy nuclear weapons sites. He has also consulted internationally on child labor and on improving occupational safety and health in small enterprises.