James Kaufman, President/CEO

Dr. Kaufman has retired from his position as Professor of Chemistry at Curry College near Boston Massachusetts.  Prior to Curry, he was a research chemist at Dow Chemical.  While there, he came increasingly involved in lab safety activities and authored Laboratory Safety Guidelines, which has become the world's most widely distributed lab safety publication.  Dr. Kaufman is regarded as the nation's foremost authority on safety instruction in academia.  He is the author-narrator of the ACS Audio Course on Laboratory Safety and Editor of Waste Disposal in Academic Institutions, Lewis Publishers, as well as the "One-Day Lab Safety Audio Seminar" and "Two-Day Lab Video Short Course."