Mike VanBree

Mike VanBree is director of product safety and engineering at Louisville Ladder Inc. and current president of the American Ladder Institute (ALI), a nonprofit trade association dedicated to promoting ladder safety. Mike’s expertise includes climbing equipment and support structures. He specializes in product design, manufacture, warnings, testing, safety analysis, incident investigation, failure analysis, and human interaction with climbing products. Mike has performed hundreds of incident investigations, including product and site inspections, human factors and ergonomics evaluations, mechanical and failure analyses, product testing, and accident reconstruction.