Founder: Geoffrey Peckham
As workplaces and the field of safety have grown, Clarion Safety Systems has been able to grow along with it. From our founding more than thirty years ago as a manufacturer of product safety labels, we now also offer a full range of workplace safety signs, as well as complementary services for comprehensive machine safety, compliance, and risk reduction. It’s a privilege to know that our products, services, and ideas touch the lives not only of the 15,000+ clients we serve, but make a difference in the safety of countless other individuals around the world. We credit our strength and growth to our roots in best practices and standards leadership – in combination with the character of our people and a forward-thinking approach to managing our business.
Meet a few of the leaders in our organization: top executives, industry professionals, and safety standards experts that we’re proud to be able to call a part of the Clarion Safety family.
Geoffrey Peckham
In 1990, Geoffrey Peckham founded Clarion Safety Systems, and for the next several decades focused on growing the company to the top of the safety markings industry, serving the needs of over 15,000 companies representing more than 180 industries worldwide.
While Geoffrey no longer plays a leadership role in the company, much of the foundation he set within Clarion Safety and in the safety arena remains. He was the starting point for our long-term standards leadership, and has played a vital role over the past three decades in leading U.S. and international standards harmonization efforts related to the design of safety signs, product safety labels, and facility sign and marking systems. Most notably, during his standards tenure, he served as the chair of the ANSI Z535 Committee for Safety Signs and Colors, and as the chair of ISO/TC 145, one of the most influential standards-writing committees in the world as its the horizontal ISO technical committee that all other ISO committees work through to standardize symbols used to convey safety information.
Over the years since Clarion Safety’s founding, Geoffrey has also been an avid presenter at various manufacturing, risk management, insurance, and academic organizations on the application benefits of compliance with ANSI and ISO standards for safety signs, labels, and photoluminesent safety markings.
Along with Geoffrey's standards work and presentations, he was very active in creating helpful content for the safety community in the forms of blogs, research articles, educational videos, and podcasts.
