Jim Kaufman, PhD, is a member of Labcompare's Editorial Advisory Board. He is Founder/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 PhD in organic chemistry from WPI. Kaufman has educated more than 100,000 scientists and science educators in over 135 types of labs in 34 countries. Working for Dow, he authored "Laboratory Safety Guidelines." Over six million copies (in 23 languages) are in circulation. He was a 10-year member of the ACS Council Committee on Chemical Safety and is past-chair of the ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety.