Environment, Health & Safety
Jack is the Research Safety Training Manager at UCLA EH&S, where he takes a proactive approach to education and community building among researchers. He does this by creating positive incentives for engaging with advanced safety training, integrating it into everyday activities, and sharing lessons learned with peers. His wealth of experience has taught him that safety culture thrives most when it’s actively discussed in the workplace, and not just during training or when the safety professionals visit.
As a leader focused on the success of his department’s training mission, Jack guides the development of online and in-person training courses for the research community, delivers safety orientations to new UCLA research faculty and their lab managers, hosts workshops and discussion forums on pertinent lab safety topics, and coordinates outreach events, lab closures, and new lab setups on campus. Hundreds of UCLA researchers have worked with Jack during advanced safety training and safety program development while he’s been at EH&S.
Jack worked seven years in the pharmaceutical industry before doing his graduate studies as an organic synthetic chemist at UCLA. He has been in service with EH&S since 2016. In his spare time, Jack tutors high school and college students in chemical and biological sciences, plays with his two cats, and messes around in his home music studio.
