The Senior Consulting Engineer of Forcon’s Tampa and Asheville office, Dara Thomas, is a licensed professional engineer in five states and is an Associate Member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE).  Dara has investigated over 86 falls including 62 trip-and-fall cases and 15+ slip-and-fall cases, and including construction fall accidents using OSHA standards.  Dara also has experience with unusual accidents involving furniture and apparatus such as a Murphy Bed, restaurant seating booths, folding baby-changing table, and playground equipment, from a structural and Code compliance viewpoint.

Dara is a voting member of the ASTM F13 standards committee (Pedestrian/Walkway Safety & Footwear), the F15 Consumer Products subcommittee of Bathtubs and Showers and the F08 Committee on Sports Equipment, Playing Surfaces and Facilities. 

Dara has been closely monitoring the development of the most recent US standards for pedestrian safety – working to advance the substantiated standards and counter the marginal ones.  Given this unique experience, she has unprecedented knowledge of the strong and weak points of slip risk analysis methods in use by US experts.

The Senior Consulting Engineer of Forcon’s Tampa and Asheville office, Dara Thomas, is a licensed professional engineer in five states and is an Associate Member of the National Academy of Forensic Engineers (NAFE).  Dara has investigated over 86 falls including 62 trip-and-fall cases and 15+ slip-and-fall cases, and including construction fall accidents using OSHA standards.  Dara also has experience with unusual accidents involving furniture and apparatus such as a Murphy Bed, restaurant seating booths, folding baby-changing table, and playground equipment, from a structural and Code compliance viewpoint.

Dara is a voting member of the ASTM F13 standards committee (Pedestrian/Walkway Safety & Footwear), the F15 Consumer Products subcommittee of Bathtubs and Showers and the F08 Committee on Sports Equipment, Playing Surfaces and Facilities. 

Dara has been closely monitoring the development of the most recent US standards for pedestrian safety – working to advance the substantiated standards and counter the marginal ones.  Given this unique experience, she has unprecedented knowledge of the strong and weak points of slip risk analysis methods in use by US experts.