• The keynote presentation will focus on a review of some of the 20th century milestones in the product safety field.

    Mr. 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 University of Oregon. He is a former Certified Fire and Explosions Investigator.

    Mr. Nute has over 40 years’ experience in product safety. He was employed by Tektronix, Inc.,
    Beaverton and Wilsonville, Oregon, for 25 years and was a major contributor to UL 1244 safety standard
    for test and measurement equipment. While at Tektronix, he participated in the development of a ground isolation monitor for which he was awarded a patent. He was employed by Hewlett Packard Company, in Vancouver, Washington, Barcelona, Spain, and San Diego, California, for 19 years as a Senior Product Safety Engineer. While at HP Vancouver, Mr. Nute co-developed the world-famous Hazard Based Safety Engineering, an HP and Agilent proprietary course. In 1994, while in Spain (Barcelona) he joined ECMA TC12 and was Chairman pro tem. This committee initiated the HBSE concepts into a draft safety standard, ECMA-287, which was then handed over to IEC TC 108 for completion as IEC 62368-1.

    He convened the first committee meeting of what would become IEC 60990 Measurement of Touch
    Current. For his work in the IEC, Mr. Nute received the prestigious IEC 1906 Award that “honors IEC
    experts around the world whose work is fundamental to the IEC.” In 2016, Mr. Nute received the IEEE Medal for Environmental & Safety Technologies.

    Mr. Nute is author of more than 40 columns, Technically Speaking, in the IEEE EMCS TC8 Product
    Safety Newsletter and the IEEE PSES Product Safety Engineering Newsletter. Some of his articles have
    been re-published in national and international magazines. Mr. Nute also presented numerous papers on product safety at the annual IEEE International Symposium on Product Compliance Engineering (formerly the Product Safety Engineering Symposium).

    He is author of original research, “Dynamic Aspects of Body Impedance,” appearing in Electrical Shock
    Safety Criteria, Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Electrical Shock Safety Criteria,
    edited by J.E. Bridges, Pergamon Press. He was the first recipient of the Michael J. DeMartini award for
    education in product safety.