Meet the Chemical Safety Team

Paula Castagna, MS, CIH
Industrial Hygiene Manager
At Yale EHS since 1999
203-737-2124
paula.castagna@yale.edu

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Direct EHS’s industrial hygiene and chemical safety programs
  • Serve as Co-Lead for the University Emergency Response Team
  • Chemical Hygiene Program for University Laboratories
  • High hazard/restricted chemical use authorization program
  • Chemical safety trainer
  • Design review for laboratory renovations, new construction, and new equipment and processes with associated chemical, physical, or ergonomic hazards

Anna Kim, MS, CIH
Senior Industrial Hygienist
At Yale EHS since 2012
203-737-2110
anna.kim@yale.edu

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Occupational chemical exposure programs
  • Industrial hygiene programs, including respiratory protection 
  • Chemical safety trainer

Paul Emery, MS
Chemical Safety Advisor
At Yale EHS since 2022

203-737-3521
paul.emery@yale.edu

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Safety Advisor for Chemistry Department
  • Safety Advisor for designated high hazard chemical laboratories outside of Chemistry
  • Safety Advisor for Athletics

Ryan Cirillo, MS, CIH, CSP
Safety Advisor-Industrial Hygiene
At Yale EHS since 2018

203-737-2107
ryan.cirillo@yale.edu

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Safety Advisor for the School of Art and several buildings in the School of Medicine
  • Industrial Hygiene Monitoring
  • Hearing Conservation

James Park, PhD
Industrial Hygiene Health & Safety Technician
At Yale EHS since 2023

734-678-2903
james.ks.park@yale.edu

Primary Responsibilities:

  • Respirator training/FIT testing
  • Chemical inventory
  • Maintain SDS documentation and compliance across campuses and offsite locations