From: katbene**At_Symbol_Here**illinois.edu Subject: RE: [DCHAS-L] Lab Notebooks with risk assessment page Date: August 3, 2009 3:13:11 PM EDT Having trained lots of scientists coming into pharmaceutical research over the last 15 years, it was noticeable that few UK educated researchers had to be convinced that risk assessment was in their best interest. Unfortunately many coming from US academic institutions needed training because their "leaders" did not consider safety a priority. In my experience, safety in industrial or pharma based research was considered a condition of employment, and supervisors know that it is their responsibility to model the safety related behaviors that their company expects. We spent a lot of time providing POSITIVE feedback to researchers on safety behaviors and it worked well. The outliers who could/would not "get it" were noticeable to management and altered their practices. I'm not saying it worked perfectly but it did work. IMHO Good laboratory safety programs will NOT eliminate all incidents, but everyone is better prepared when they do happen. Kathy
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