Phil Clark, MS, CIH, CSP

Career

From the field to the classroom

1. Military operations · 5 years

   Industrial hygienist, U.S. Navy

   Supported Navy SEAL teams and naval aviation maintenance operations, assessing exposures in some of the most demanding work environments there are.

2. 2013

   National Laboratory of the Rockies

   Joined the laboratory, then the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, specializing in hydrogen safety, energy storage, hazard analysis, gas detection and nanomaterial safety.

3. A decade of hydrogen safety

   Hydrogen Safety Point of Contact

   Facilitated hazard analyses and risk assessments, led hazard-awareness training, oversaw construction and operation of research hydrogen systems, and investigated off-normal events.

4. 2016 edition of NFPA 2

   Code development

   Contributed to the standard permitting checklists developed with the NFPA 2 committee.

5. Energy storage

   Battery safety in research

   Oversaw destructive abuse testing of battery modules, onboarded large flow battery experiments and guided the addition of battery systems to grid-integration research.

6. Founder and CEO

   Omitz, LLC

   Founded Omitz to teach the codes that govern hydrogen and energy storage, with courses on NFPA 2 and NFPA 855.

7. Center for Hydrogen Safety

   Lead NFPA 2 instructor

   Teaches NFPA 2 for the AIChE Center for Hydrogen Safety and serves on its Safety Culture Committee.

8. 2026

   AI in ESH practice

   Presented a full-day professional development course on ethical AI workflows at AIHA Connect, and contributed to the AIHA publication Using AI to Enhance OEHS.