Potomac LS AIHA: Marijuana in the Workplace Technical Meeting

Please join us for the AIHA Potomac LS October Technical Meeting!

Adele Abrams, a practicing attorney and a trained mediator, will discuss marijuana legislation, medical cannabis and workplace safety issues including the intersection of OHS and HR Laws.

Adele L. Abrams, Esq., CMSP, REA, is recognized as a national expert on matters of construction and mining law and occupational/mine safety and health. She is both a practicing attorney and a trained mediator, with extensive experience handling court-referred and private mediation cases during her decade in private practice. She is both a Certified Mine Safety Professional and a Registered Environmental Attorney. She is admitted to practice in Maryland, the District of Columbia.

Adele has 20 years’ experience in the construction field, working first as a staff member of the American Road and Transportation Builders Association, and then as director of government affairs for the National Stone Association (representing producers of construction materials). She is past president of the Construction Writers Association and regularly writes columns on legal, employment and safety issues for construction, mining and general interest magazines. In 2004, she was a co-author of the American Society of Safety Engineers’ textbook, Construction Safety Management and Engineering. She has also contributed sections to other books on mining law and occupational safety and health.

Since 2001, Adele has been president of the Law Office of Adele L. Abrams, Beltsville, MD, a five-attorney firm offering Legal and Mediation Services, with an emphasis on safety and health, construction, and employment law.  She was previously an attorney in the Environment, Safety and Health practice group of Patton Boggs LLP, in Washington, DC.