Faculty

William L. Bowers

Managing Partner
Torch Associates LLC

November 2004 – Present: Founding Member and Managing Partner for Torch Associates LLC. Torch Associates provides consulting, design and engineering services for Fortune 500 firms in Compressed Air Technologies; including Breathing Air Systems for Supplied Air Respirators, equipment selection for critical pneumatic processes including Automotive Paint Spray and Powder Systems, Energy Center and Powerhouse design.
December 1986 - 2004: President, Miller/Bowers Company, Inc. Manufacturer of high efficiency compressed air and liquid purification systems designed to assist manufacturers in meeting both EPA and OSHA guidelines and critical industrial applications.
May 1975 - December 1986: President, Daboco, Inc. Manufacturer of Nomonox breathing compressed air systems for supplied air respiratory protection equipment. Design, engineer and testing of compressed air treatment systems for hospitals, asbestos abatement projects, the Space Shuttle program, nuclear power facilities, utilities and major industrial compressed air systems.
Staff lecturer and compressed air respiratory protection consultant for:

Mid-Atlantic Asbestos Information Center (Newark, New Jersey)
Midwest Asbestos Information Center (Chicago, Illinois)
OSHA Training Institute (Des Plaines, Illinois)
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (Morgantown, West Virginia)
Occupational Safety and Health Educational Resource Center, University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Kathleen Buckheit, MPH, RN, COHN-S/CM/SM, FAAOHN
Continuing Education Director
NC OSHERC Continuing Education and Outreach Programs
North Carolina Institute for Public Health
Gillings School of Global Public Health,
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Mailing Address for US Mail
PO Box 16248
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-6248

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