Gari T. Gatwood, BSME
Consulting Engineer
Environmental Health and Safety
Gatwood Associates
Biography
Gari T. Gatwood, is a consulting engineer in the field of safe laboratory design, procedure and operation.
Beginning in the early 1960’s, Mr. Gatwood worked as a senior weapons systems safety engineer and an R&D development engineer for Hercules Inc. on the Minuteman defense missile system.
From 1966 to 1991 he directed the safety program at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, a high-energy particle physics research laboratory operated jointly by Harvard and MIT, and he served Harvard as the manager of safety engineering and environmental services for the Department of Environmental Health and Safety.
In 1991 Mr. Gatwood entered a ten year consulting assignment for Bell Laboratories that took him on assignment to many laboratory facilities in the Eastern U.S. and Taiwan. Mr. Gatwood has lectured widely and has taught courses in laboratory safety and design for the Harvard School of Public Health, the American Chemical Society, the National Safety Council and Bell Laboratories, among others.
Mr. Gatwood served on the board of directors of the Massachusetts Safety Council and as its Chairman of the Board 1994-1997. He has been an officer with the National Safety Council and the American Society of Safety Engineers. Mr. Gatwood received his BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri at Rolla in 1962 and retired his CSP Board Certification in 2003.