Anne Mathias specializes in biomedical and mechanical engineering. Her expertise includes safety, biomechanics, ergonomics, and injury analyses including: human locomotion, slip, trip, and falls, slip resistance testing, and injury mechanisms and tolerance. She conducts human factors analyses considering human capabilities and limitations and how a person might interact with a machine or product and the surrounding environment. This includes over 18 years experience in evaluating and designing product safety labeling, warnings, and instructions.
Ms. Mathias has over 15 years of leadership experience in the development of ANSI B11 Machinery Safety Standards. She is the Vice-Chair of the Standards Development Committee for the entire ANSI B11 Machinery Safety Standards Series. She is also the Vice-Chair of the Subcommittee responsible for developing the standard ANSI B11.0 Safety of Machines: General Requirements and Risk Assessment.
She conducts safety analyses and formal risk assessments of industrial machinery as well as consumer products including: children's products, sports and exercise equipment, playgrounds, fall protection equipment, and indoor and outdoor power equipment. Ms. Mathias regularly works with manufacturers, guiding them through the risk assessment and documentation process.
Her work in accident reconstruction utilizes the scientific method to evaluate the interplay between the physical data, injury evidence, and human factors and biomechanical limitations for a given accident scenario. She applies this methodology to accidents involving industrial machinery, consumer products, falls, automotive, and railroad scenarios.
Areas of Expertise
Publications
- Elevator Passenger Accelerations During Emergency Stops, Normal Elevator Travel, and Everyday Activities, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation Journal, Volume 61(1), pp. 23-32, April 2025
- Aboveground Swimming Pool Child Access Prevention Through Product Design, Proceedings of the XXXVIth Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference, August 2024
- Risk Assessment: When have you reached acceptable risk?, 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (ISPCE), Chicago, IL, USA, 2024, pp. 1-4, doi: 10.1109/ISPCE61193.2024.10541214, April 2024
- Residential Bunk Bed Child Entrapment Hazard Safety Test MethodsProceedings of the XXXVth Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference, Proceedings of the XXXVth Annual International Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference, October 2023
- Safety Program for Machine Safeguarding, chapter in The ASSP Study Guide for the ASP Examination: ASP10 Blueprint, American Society of Safety Professionals, January 2020
- Comparative Lumbar Spine Acceleration Data During Daily and Dynamic Activities, Tasks of Daily Driving, and Low Speed Lateral Vehicle Impacts, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 55(2):316-323, April 2019
- Head Acceleration Measurements During Vehicle Driving Tasks and Lateral Impacts Relative to Head Accelerations During Daily and Dynamic Activities, Biomedical Sciences Instrumentation, 55(2):277-284, January 2019
- Stump Grinder Accident Reconstruction and Design Testing Methodologies, Proceedings of the XXXth Annual Occupational Ergonomics and Safety Conference, June 2018
- Aboveground Swimming Pool Ladder Safety: The Application of Child Resistance to a Consumer Product Used by Children, Proceedings of the 59th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, pp. 966-970, January 2015
- Methods of Accident Reconstruction: Biomechanical and Human Factors Considerations, Proceedings of the ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, November 2015
- A Link Between Occupant and Vehicle Accelerations During Common Driving Tasks, Biomed Sci Instrum, 50:197-204, April 2014
See CV for additional publications.
Case Studies
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Fall from a Multi-Story Building
A woman attending an event at a hotel went over a railing on a spiral staircase, resulting in a three-story fatal fall to the basement.
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Fall from A Rail Station Platform
A railroad worker claimed injury while on the job.
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Safety Analysis of Cable Sleeve
ESi was retained by the manufacturer of personal fall protection equipment to perform a safety analysis and documented risk assessment of a newly designed detachable cable sleeve.
