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About LAPIDUS Safety Consulting

LAPIDUS Safety Consulting was formed in January 1993 to provide clients with safety management consulting and training designed to fit each organization's style of management and culture. The target was and is to prevent losses, mitigate risk exposures, comply with applicable governmental regulations, and to help clients deal with their safety and management issues.

LAPIDUS Safety Consulting provides safety management consulting to both public and private sector clients, recognizing that each type of organization demands its own kind of suggestions.

Advisory Staff

Bob Lapidus, CSPBob is the principal consultant. As needed, he is assisted by other consultants who either provide similar consulting support or specialized help.Resume

Jim EmersonSince 1995, Jim Emerson has been assisting Bob in most of the work being done. They peer review each other's work, and provide creative input as needed. Resume

Bob Lapidus
Safety Management Consultant

Bob Lapidus has been in the safety management career field since 1968, working in both the public and private sectors. He is a Board Certified Safety Professional (CSP) and has a Master of Science degree in Safety Management

As a frequent speaker and educator, Bob is well known for his practical approach to preventing losses. He believes that most losses are preventable and that much can be done to reduce injuries to people and damage to property, especially within a well-managed organization that strives for excellence and professionalism.

His experience and education include:
1999-Present	LAPIDUS Safety Consulting, Fredericksburg, Texas Safety Management Consultant
1992-1999	LAPIDUS Safety Consulting, Pleasant Hill, California Safety Management Consultant Bob is an independent management consultant in safety and health. His consulting practice focuses on assisting organizations in their efforts to reduce their accidental losses, comply with applicable governmental safety and health regulations, and improve the overall safety management of their operations.

1990-1992	Crawford Risk Control Services/The FPE Group, Lafayette, California Branch Manager Bob managed a 30-person consulting and engineering office that included specialists in safety and health management, industrial hygiene, environmental health, ergonomics, fire protection consulting, and fire protection engineering systems design.

1981-1990	The FPE Group, San Francisco and Lafayette, California Senior Vice President Director of Safety and Health Management Services With the help of several industrious colleagues, Bob built a one million dollar safety & health management and consulting practice providing advisory support to both private industries and public entities. During this time, he became prominent as a speaker and innovator in the field of safety management.

1977-1981	Amfac, Inc., San Francisco, California Corporate Manager, Loss Control/Safety Management Bob provided safety & health advisory support to this 26,000-employee corporation with individual companies in agriculture, hotels and resorts, passenger transit, retail, food processing, wholesale distribution and property management..

1976-1977	University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona Graduate Student Safety Administrator

1972-1976	City of Des Moines, Iowa Undergraduate Student - Mechanical Engineering Bob managed a four-person safety and health advisory staff for this 2000-employee municipality. He conducted and coordinated in-house inspections and training; implemented citywide safety and health policies and procedures; advised on OSHA compliance; dealt with OSHA officials during and after on-site inspections, and administered the city's workers' compensation program.

1968-1972	United States Air Force, Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota Base Ground Safety Officer/Captain Bob was the military staff safety advisor for traffic, industrial and recreational accident prevention. Duties included conducting facility inspections, traffic accident investigations, training, and accident/injury analyses. He also provided safety program, procedure and policy recommendations to Base, Wing and other unit commanders for this base of 5,000 military and 10,000 dependent personnel.

1964-1968	Union College, Schenectady, New York Undergraduate Student Bachelor of Science, Psychology


Bob is a professional member of the American Society of Safety Engineers (past program chair, secretary and vice president of the Hawkeye Chapter). He is also a member of the Golden Gate Chapter of the National Safety Management Society (past two-time president) and past national director and treasurer. Bob is a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Administration Honor Society and has taught as an adjunct instructor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. He is co-creator of the Professional Safety Institute at the Safety Center Incorporated, in Sacramento, California (1993 to the present).
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Jim Emerson
Safety Management Consultant

Jim Emerson is a safety management consultant, working in both the public and private sectors. His consulting background includes consulting in occupational safety and health, liability loss control, and vehicle fleet safety management. Jim is a specialist in vehicle fleet safety management and conflict resolution.

He is an industrial and manufacturing engineer, has a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from California State University at San Luis Obispo, and has a Safety Specialist Certificate and Safety Manager Certificate from the Professional Safety Institute, a division of the Safety Center Incorporated in Sacramento, California.

His experience and education include:
1987-Present	EMERSON Consultants, Montague, California Safety Management Consultant Jim is an independent consultant in the field of safety management. His consulting practice targets the public sector where he provides consultation to help organizations prevent accidental losses, reduce risk exposures, and comply with applicable governmental safety and health regulations. Such assistance has been in the areas of occupational safety and health, third-party liability loss control, and vehicle fleet safety management.

1980-1993	County of Siskiyou, California, Yreka, California Transportation Services Officer Jim was responsible for Siskiyou County's Transportation Planning activities and was staff to the Local Transportation Commission. In addition, he was responsible for the County’s public transit system. Major system enhancements included improved safety-related and training programs, installation of a preventive maintenance program, and purchasing insurance from a pool.

1975-1980	Hydril Company, Los Angeles, California Assistant to the Plant Manager and Manager of Customer Service Jim substantially improved service levels to customers and company field personnel. He successfully completed the reorganization of the department and implemented new automated and computerized order entry and tracking systems. He also functioned as the special project problem solver for the Plant Manager.

1967-1975	McDonnell Douglas Astronautics Co., Santa Monica, California Senior Industrial Engineer - Staff Support Section Manager - Industrial Engineering Jim performed staff duties and special projects involved with closing out and consolidating manufacturing facilities, man and machine loads, time standards, capital equipment justifications, cost trade-off studies, work sample and ratio delay studies, and manufacturing methods improvements. The emphasis was to perform these evaluations and make recommendations based on ensuring the safety of manufacturing and assembly employees. As Section Manager, Jim supervised ten industrial engineers assigned to a machine shop containing conventional and numerically controlled machines producing detail parts for commercial aircraft and missile programs. During this period, Jim graduated from the company sponsored 240 hour Industrial Engineering Professional Development Program.

1966-1967	Hughes Aircraft Co. (Space Systems Division), El Segundo, California Project Control Administrator Jim was responsible for the coordination and control of budgets, facilities, sales proposals, purchase and lease agreements, office equipment, special projects, personnel screening and evaluation, schedules and status reports, and general administrative duties.

1961-1966	Western Gear Corporation (Electro Products Division), Pasadena, California Plant and Project Engineer As a plant and project engineer, Jim was responsible for the management of a new product line acquisition and for the production of a commercially produced highly reliable precision DC motor and planetary gearbox assembly.

1957-1961	California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, California. Undergraduate Student - Mechanical Engineering B.S.M.E.

An integral part of Jim's success has been his ability to identify and systematically evaluate the safety and detailed processes of many different kinds of work functions, develop improved methods and approaches, and work to establish consensus in the implementation of new activities.
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