Our Team
Burton Klein Associates are healthcare fire & electrical safety specialists with over 80 years of experience combined. We are located in Newton, Massachusetts, but we present our workshops all over the United States.
Burton Klein, PE, spent 20 years with the National Fire Protection Association as its chief health care fire protection engineer. He edited 5 editions of the Health Care Facilities Handbook (on NFPA 99). He is co-author of the NFPA book Fire & Life Safety in Health Care Facilities. He is author of the ASHE Fire, Electrical & Life Safety Compendium. He is now president of his own company, Burton Klein Associates, Newton, MA, specializing in fire and electrical safety issues in health care facilities. Prior to NFPA, he was director of Medical Engineering Dept. at Tuft-New England Medical Center in Boston, MA.
Mark Ode is a staff engineering associate in Regulatory Services for Underwriters Laboratories Inc. in RTP, North Carolina. He has been an electrician, an electrical contractor, and a Vice President of an engineering firm. He worked for the National Fire Protection Association. He was the Executive Secretary for the NFPA Electrical Section and staff liaison for the Electrical Equipment in Chemical Atmospheres Committee. He was a technical editor for the 1993, 1996, and 1999 editions of the NEC. He was involved in the development of the 1993, 1996 and 1999 NEC workshops, the 1996 NEC Changes video, the 1999 NEC Changes book, and the 1999 and 2002 NEC Expert video series. He is presently a member of NEC Panels 3 and 4, and the NEC technical correlating committee. He is a former member of NEC Panel 20.
Mayer Zimmerman, MS, spent 36 years with the federal government as a Life Safety Code Specialist, acting as the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) over life safety issues involving all types of health care facilities for the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). He represented CMS for more than 30 years on the NFPA T/C on Health Care Occupancies (NFPA 101) and the T/CC on Health Care Facilities (NFPA 99). He served as a CMS instructor in every LSC and NFPA 99 class CMS has held. He is a member of NFPA and the Society of Fire Protection Engineers. In August 2008, he started his own company specializing in health care life safety issues.