About Port Safety Services (PSS)

PSS is an international health, safety, and environmental (HS&E) consulting group with over 90 years of combined experience.  Based at the Port of Oakland California, PSS provides expert witness testimony for civil cases involving personal injury (PI) at intermodal port-based operations.

Our scope includes HS&E engineering, industrial hygiene, and consultative services to intermodal container ports and legal counsel.  We serve land-based and ships at shore operations involving falls, the control of hazardous energy (LOTO), injury in confined space, involving dangerous machinery, powered industrial trucks (PIT), container handling equipment, ship-to-shore container cranes (STS), mechanical shop operations, commercial vehicles, and worker exposure to toxic, flammable, injurious and hazardous materials (Hazmat).

Our civil case experience includes injury to longshoremen, freight haulers and truck drivers regarding handling and transporting of intermodal cargo and freight.

We represent both plaintiff and defense counsel by providing forensic (SME) expert testimony, incident causation, expert reports, and consultation to law firms and insurance companies for over three decades.

Our attorney clients serve intermodal container ports, vessels, docks, and cargo handling personal injury (PI).  Our experts are versed in confined space safety and rescue, intermodal containers and ship holds, use of safety lifelines, hazardous materials, toxic substances, fire prevention, respiratory protection and fall prevention & protection.

Our team of professionals assist in proactive loading dock safety, longshoring operations, use of yard tractors, cargo and load securement standards of care.

Typical equipment: Reacher stackers, ship-to-shore cranes (STS), powered industrial trucks (PIT), rubber tired gantry (RTG), straddle carriers, autostrads, top handlers and side picks.  As material handling safety experts, we are highly versed in rigging, crane hoisting, loading/unloading of commercial trucking and rail operations; we verify operator and driver safety training and fitness for duty.  Our post incident evaluations assist legal counsel and port management.

We conduct post incident inspections and hazard analysis based upon established maritime industry standards of care, and FMCSA-DOT, OSHA, EPA, IMDG Code and established USCG regulations.