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Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 15:45:14 -0400
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From: List Moderator <ecgrants**At_Symbol_Here**UVM.EDU>
Subject: Re: : Legal aspects of CalOSHA & UCLA/Change Focus
From: "Carl Zipfel"
Date: May 8, 2009 3:42:01 PM EDT (CA)
Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] : Legal aspects of CalOSHA & UCLA/Change Focus
> How adequate are the safety training programs for both students and
employees in academic institutions?
> Are academic institutions providing appropriate training and safe
working environments for students and employees to work in academic
laboratories?
>Are academic institutions providing adequate safety training to
students who will enter the private sector work force?
Actually, a couple of very good questions.
1 - Universities can=92t train for many varied issues that a new
employee will potentially faced at industrial establishments. This is
a necessity done best at that work place. What institutions can do is
to teach students how safety requirements are important for their own
protection. This does require that they develop and enforce proper
protective processes at their laboratories, and teach why these are
important.
2 - The best way to minimize accidents, in any environment, is to
engage in appropriate and proper =93risk assessment=94. Proper
procedures
and hazard minimization will always flow form an appropriate, honest,
risk assessment, and hazard minimization program.
3 - Would it not be wonderful if every chemistry, and engineering,
student, was taught basic fault-tree, and what-if, analysis.
Carl Zipfel csp
EHS Management Systems LLC
www.ehsmanagementsystems.com
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