Richard Nute

Richard Nute is a product safety consultant engaged in safety design, safety manufacturing, safety certification, safety standards, and forensic investigations. Mr. Nute holds a B.S. in Physical Science from California State Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo, California. He studied in the MBA curriculum at the University of Oregon. He is a former Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator. Mr. Nute is a Life Fellow Member of the IEEE, a charter member of the Product Safety Engineering Society (PSES), and a Director of the IEEE PSES Board of Directors (now Governors). He was the technical program chairman of the first 5 PSES annual Symposia and has been a technical presenter at many Symposia. He gave the keynote speech at the Portland, Oregon, PSES. Mr. Nute’s goal is to change the product safety environment from being standards-driven to being engineering-driven; to enable the engineering community to design and manufacture a safe product without having to use a product safety standard; to establish safety engineering as a required course within the electrical engineering curricula.