Gus Anibarro is the founder and president of GCA Laser Safety LLC. In 2019, Gus became the Executive Director of the Board of Laser Safety (BLS). BLS is a certification organization that provides Laser Safety Officers with the opportunity to become certified. Gus served as the Director of Education for the Laser Institute of America (LIA) from 2009 to 2022. Over the 22 years Gus was at LIA, he developed classroom and online laser safety training and taught Laser Safety Officer (LSO) courses. Gus taught in-house laser safety training to manufacturers such as General Motors, Ford, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Kohler, Northrop Grumman, and Zippo. Gus also performed laser safety audits of hospitals, manufacturing facilities, and university research laboratories.

Gus was the sole liaison for the LIA/OSHA Alliance. As part of the Alliance agreement, he taught laser safety to OSHA Compliance Officers throughout several OSHA regions and developed fact sheets for the LIA/OSHA Alliance. Gus is frequently invited to speak at conferences such as the OSHA onsite consultation conference, the Florida Health Physics conference, LIA Lasers for Manufacturing Event (LME), the Department of Energy Laser Safety Officer Workshop, NASA Health Physics Conference, the Shipyard Applications for Industrial Lasers conference, the Professional Hair Removal Conference, and the Electrolysis Society of Florida Conference. Gus has served as the LSO for FABTECH, North America’s largest metal forming; fabricating; welding and finishing event; and the LIA LME tradeshow.

Gus is a member of The Accredited Standards Committee (ASC) Z136, the Standards Subcommittee 3 (SSC-3) for Safe Use of Lasers in Health Care, and the Technical Subcommittee 4 (TSC-4) for Control Measures and Training. These committees write the body of the ANSI Z136 laser safety standards that are recognized by OSHA as the national consensus standards for the United States. Gus has a B.A. degree in Psychology from Rollins College and a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Central Florida. Gus Anibarro, wanting to make an impact in the laser industry by promoting safety for companies and their customers, founded GCA Laser Safety in 2022.