Knowledge is power at the Laser Institute of America (LIA) in Orlando, Florida, where personnel from various industries come to learn how to safely apply laser technology to their respective industries.
“We have people from all areas that come and take our Laser Safety officer course,” explains education director Gus Anibarro, who teaches LIA’s Laser Safety and Industrial Laser Safety officer courses. “Typically they are industrial hygienist or health physicists, environmental health and safety personnel, optical engineers, welding engineers — it’s a wide variety of people simply because they get appointed to be a laser safety officer.”