Sharon Kohler

Sharon is responsible for environmental protection and occupational safety and health at the Laboratory's 5,300-acre site, ensuring compliance with federal, state, and local regulations to protect the Laboratory's 2,800 employees, the public, and the environment. She has more than 30 years of experience managing environment, safety, health, and operations at Department of Energy (DOE) facilities with complex operational environments. 

Sharon comes to Brookhaven from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), where she held a variety of operational leadership roles over 17 years. Most recently, she served as director of ORNL's Safety and Operations Services Division in the Environment, Safety, Health, and Quality Directorate (ESH&Q), and was responsible for the Worker Safety and Health and Research Work Control management systems. She previously supported ORNL as operations manager of ESH&Q, ESH&Q group leader at the Spallation Neutron Source, operations manager of the Neutron Sciences Directorate, and health and safety programs group leader in ESH&Q. Sharon also served for a period of time leading ORNL's Independent Oversight organization.

Before joining ORNL in 2006, Sharon spent 16 years at DOE's Environmental Management Program, Fernald Closure Project near Cincinnati, Ohio. While at Fernald, she directed programs related to work control, occupational safety, industrial hygiene, occupational medicine, nuclear criticality, safety analysis, integrated safety management, training, health and wellness, radiation protection, and emergency management.