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About Us |
Barry Johnston, Founder
Barry Johnston, founder of HighQ, has over 16 years of experience in the hazardous packaging and shipping industry. His knowledge in the area of biohazardous packaging and the corresponding regulations is extensive. Training clients include major esoteric, research and state labs as well as biotech companies, federal government (NIH, CDC, NCI), national lab and clinical trial groups, couriers and numerous colleges and universities. He has developed packaging and consulted companies and organizations in the pharmaceutical, clinical and diagnostic lab, biotechnology, device and chemical industries.
Barry's experience in this field started in the late 1980's as a product
manager for 
hazardous material packaging products. In 1995, when the Department of Transportation
(DOT) regulations for infectious substances came into effect, he
designed and developed packaging for infectious and diagnostic specimens.
In 2000 he further concentrated his efforts on the training, package
development and testing and started HighQ LLC. He has lectured on
the regulations and packaging at industry conferences such as CLMA,
SWOG and DIA and in various trade magazines.
To keep current on these ever changing regulations, as well as industry
practices and developments, Barry maintains contacts in the governmental
agencies, carriers and packaging companies. As an independent instructor
he is able to bring an unbiased perspective to his seminars. This
gives him the unique freedom to advise his students on the best
package for their needs, and also to instruct in all the carrier's
practices. He has been trained by the DOT and follows all the guidelines
of 49CFR 172.700 (subpart H) and IATA and ICAO Section 1.5. He has
participated in DOT's committee of expert's forum and IATA's infectious
workshop concerning the shipping of specimens.
For any further questions or a list of references and clients, please email HighQ at info@highqllc.com
or call 724-749-4710.