Mr. Barton is the current chair of the Board of Directors. He received a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Sciences from the University of Massachusetts, at Amherst, and Master of Science degrees in both Secondary Education and Environmental and Occupational Health Science. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Certified Safety Professional.

Mr. Barton is the Chief Safety Officer and Director of Research Safety Affairs at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. Prior to that he was at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the New York University Langone Medical Center. His experience also includes environmental consulting, work as an environmental laboratory technician, and experience as a high school science teacher covering classes in chemistry, biology and forensic science. He is a member of the Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) and American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) and is past President of the Midsouth Local Section of the AIHA.

Corey Briggs has more than 40+ years’ experience assisting clients from the private and public sector with environmental and occupational health and safety regulatory compliance.

Mr. DiBerardinis received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Chemical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Master of Science Degree in Industrial Hygiene from Harvard University. He is a Certified Industrial Hygienist and Certified Safety Professional .

Mr. DiBerardinis is the Director, Environment, Health and Safety at MIT. Prior to that he was at Polaroid Corporation and Harvard University .

Mr. DiBerardinis is a visiting lecturer at Harvard University School of Public Health where he currently teaches in several graduate courses and continuing education programs. He is the author of numerous technical publications and co-authored the text “Guidelines for Laboratory Design: Health and Safety Considerations” and is editor of the "Handbook of Occupational Safety and Health", both published by John Wiley and Sons. He served as chair of the ANSI Z9.5 subcommittee on Laboratory Ventilation from 1984 to 2006.

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 became 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."

Additionally, Dr. Kaufman is a past chair of the International Council for Associations of Science Education (ICASE), Committee on Safety in Science Education.

Christina McKeon is the environmental, health and safety manager at the Museum of Science in Boston Massachusetts. She has worked at the museum for 7 years. She has been dedicated to ensuring safety is an integral and important part of science and science education. She truly enjoys ensuring a safe environment for educators and visitors for informal science education that is high-quality and highly engaging - the "wow without the ow!" During the course of her career, she has had continued success with biological safety, chemical safety, facility safety programs, and providing safety training programs to all levels of academia, industry and government within North America and abroad. In addition, she has experience with emergency response planning, radiation safety, research compliance coordination, and environmental sustainability.

In addition to teaching lab safety for LSI, Ian is a Chemical Health and Laboratory Safety Professional at the University of Connecticut Office of the Vice President for Research . He has extensive experience overseeing biosafety and biosecurity training and compliance for federal, military and civilian organizations. Some of his areas of expertise include: virology and microbiology, biological select agent federal regulatory compliance, high-containment biosafety training and development, and integrated data management design. One of his recent projects was managing biosafety compliance for more than 1,000 employees of 60 different companies at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Plum Island Animal Disease Center in New York. This is the only laboratory in the nation that can work on live foot-and-mouth disease virus. He began his career in the Navy as a special operations hospital corpsman and a flight emergency medical technician in East Asia.

Dale Zaborowski is currently the director of laboratory safety and operations for the College of Science and Mathematics at Kennesaw State University in Georgia (U.S.A).  He received his Master’s degree in biology from the University of West Georgia. His interest in safety blossomed after taking his first laboratory safety course.

He holds certifications as an emergency manager from the Georgia Emergency Management Agency, chemical hygiene officer from the National Registry of Certified Chemists, safety professional from the Board of Certified Safety Professionals, and registered environmental manager from the National Registry of Environmental Professionals. He is also an authorized OHSA trainer.

Dale volunteers with Cobb County, Georgia as part of the community emergency response team. He is an avid outdoorsman and serves as the advisor for the Kennesaw State University competitive fishing team.