Nick Maya

Background

About Nick Maya

Nick is an Environmental Health Scientist with over 8 years of experience in the areas of toxicology and human health and ecological risk assessment. Nick conducts human health and ecological risk assessments for contaminated sites in Ontario in accordance with Ontario Regulation 153/04 (O. Reg. 153/04, as amended). He also conducts Due Diligence Risk Assessments (DDRAs) for contaminated sites in Ontario using scientific approaches that are generally consistent with O. Reg. Nick also has experience using the Beneficial Reuse Assessment Tool (BRAT) to derive risk-based site-specific excess soil quality standards (SQS) and conducting risk assessments for excess soil projects in accordance with O.Reg. He has also worked on human health and ecological risk assessments for federal contaminated sites and contaminated sites in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. Additionally, Nick prepares human health and ecological toxicology reviews and aquatic toxicity assessments, and has worked on the development risk-based soil guidelines/reclamation objectives. Furthermore, Nick provides strategical advice and scientific-based recommendations in biostatistics, experimental design, risk assessment and toxicology projects. Nick has experience conducing toxicology risk assessments (TRAs), assessing the potential health hazards of chemicals in consumer products to humans and pets, and has prepared common technical documents for new drug applications and investigational new drug submissions through the review of nonclinical safety data in accordance with ICH technical requirements for pharmaceuticals for human use.