Best practices for handling safety management system in modernized laboratories
Instructor
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Dr. James A. KaufmanThe Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI), USA
Dr. James Kaufman is Founder and President Emeritus of The Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) – an international, non-profit center for safety in science, industry, and education. He received his BA in chemistry from Tufts and his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from WPI.
Dr. Kaufman has educated more than 100,000 scientists and science educators in over 135 types of labs in 30 countries. Working for Dow, he authored “Laboratory Safety Guidelines”. Over six million copies (in 21 languages) are in circulation.
He is a 10-year member of the American Chemical Society’s (ACS) Council Committee on Chemical Safety and is past-chairman of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety. He is the author-narrator of the ACS Audio Course on Laboratory Safety and editor of “Waste Disposal at Academic Institutions” from Lewis Publishers. He recorded and edited the “One-Day Laboratory Safety Audio Seminar” and “Two-Day Lab Safety Video Course.” He is a co-authored of “Safety Is Elementary: the new standard for safety in the elementary science classroom”. Most recently he prepared one, two and three-day on-demand internet lab safety courses.