Georgia Tech Occupational Safety & Health Program

Staff Profile

Mark H. Hodges

Web Services Manager, OSHA 21D Consultation Program

Senior Research Associate
Georgia Tech Research Institute
Information Technology & Telecommunications Laboratory
Atlanta, Georgia 30332-0832
Office 404-407-6987
Fax 404-407-8081
EMail: mark.hodges@gtri.gatech.edu

Education

M.S. in Technology and Science Policy
Georgia Tech
1992

B.A. in English Literature
Furman University
1972

Professional Experience

Georgia Institute of Technology
Senior Research Associate: 1995-present
Research Associate II: 1979-95

Experience Summary

Mark Hodges is a specialist in web-based training and science communication. He has developed and managed web sites for the South & Southwest Hazardous Substance Research Center and the OSHA 21D Consultation Program at Georgia Tech.

His professional interests include environmental communication, risk communication, public policy, multimedia effectiveness in training, workers safety and health training, and the role of the Internet in technology transfer. He managed a project resulting in a CD-ROM based curriculum on "Nutrition and Menu Management" for the Georgia Department of Education. More recently, he led a project to develop and assess a model for web-based course delivery in OSHA safety and health training under sponsorship of the Center to Protect Workers Rights. He was a course director in an OSHA-sponsored project to create a comprehensive safety and health training curriculum for disaster site workers at scenes of weapons of mass destruction attacks.

Selected Peer-Reviewed Publications

Hodges, M.H., "Using the Internet to Disseminate Sediments Information: A Case Study," in Management of Contaminated Sediments, pp. 43-50. Battelle Press, Columbus, Ohio, 2002.
Hodges, M, Tillett, S. Lessons learned in developing web education for OSHA confined space entry training, 6th International Conference on Best Practices in Occupational Safety and Health, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and NIOSH. Baltimore, Maryland, October 30, 2002.
Hodges, M, Tillett, S. Lessons learned in adapting OSHA Training Institute Course content to the web, NORA 2003: Working Partnerships -- Research to Practice, Arlington, Virginia, National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health, June 24, 2003.
Hodges, M, Tillett, S, Heidotting, T. Development and assessment of a model for web-based safety and health education. Proceedings of Society for Applied Learning Technology. 2005. Arlington, VA
Hodges, M, Tillett, S, Heidotting, T. Development and assessment of a model for web-based safety and health education. In P. Kommers & G. Richards (Eds.), Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications 2005:373-380. Chesapeake, VA: AACE.