Remember that OSHA standards are the BARE MINIMUM for a safe work place. This means that those of us with safety duties can not use the OSHA rules as the only definition for our jobs. And yes, employers are free to assign "other duties as necessary", but our art studios & engineering labs all report (direct or indirect) to the VP Research & those are the areas that I need to have a presence. Kim Auletta Lab Safety Specialist EH&S Z=6200 Stony Brook University kauletta**At_Symbol_Here**notes.cc.sunysb.edu 631-632-3032 FAX: 631-632-9683 EH&S Web site: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ehs/lab/ Remember to wash your hands! From: JAKSAFETY**At_Symbol_Here**AOL.COM To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**LIST.UVM.EDU Date: 05/23/2011 07:31 AM Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Realm of Duties for a University CHO Sent by: DCHAS-L Discussion ListMary wrote: If you look at the definition of a lab, the making of art simply doesnŐt meet the definition. What is the definition? We need to refer to the standard itself and not the conversation that's been going on here. << Laboratory means a facility where the "laboratory use of hazardous chemicals" occurs. It is a workplace where relatively small quantities of hazardous chemicals are used on a non-production basis. Laboratory scale means work with substances in which the containers used for reactions, transfers, and other handling of substances are designed to be easily and safety manipulated by one person. "Laboratory scale" excludes those workplaces whose function is to produce commercial quantities of materials. Laboratory use of hazardous chemicals means handling or use of such chemicals in which all of the following conditions are met: (i) Chemical manipulations are carried out on a "laboratory scale;" (ii) Multiple chemical procedures or chemicals are used; (iii) The procedures involved are not part of a production process, nor in any way simulate a production process; and (iv) "Protective laboratory practices and equipment" are available and in common use to minimize the potential for employee exposure to hazardous chemicals. >> Each organization needs to do an evaluation to decide whether their workplaces (art, science, vocation) meet the definition. My opinion is that both art and vocation workplaces can easily satisfy all the OSHA list requirement to be considered a laboratory and be regulated under the lab standard. James A. Kaufman, Ph.D. Chair, ICASE Committee on Safety in Science Education International Council for Associations of Science Education www.icaseonline.net President/CEO The Laboratory Safety Institute (LSI) A Nonprofit International Organization for Safety in Science and Science Education 192 Worcester Road, Natick, MA 01760-2252 508-647-1900 Fax: 508-647-0062 Skype: labsafe Cell: 508-574-6264 Res: 781-237-1335 jim**At_Symbol_Here**labsafetyinstitute.org www.labsafetyinstitute.org P We thank you for printing this e-mail only if it is necessary
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