Don A.
Long
CAIH, CEAS I
Southwest Research Institute
Laboratory
Pine Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal
Facility
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White Hall, AR 71612
870-541-4930
It’s not just students but all levels of people moving from academia into private business. Not that there are great safety programs in academia and poor ones in business but in my experience the accountability in academia just isn’t there for the most part.
Tim
Timothy
M. Hauser, CHMM
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Promega
Corporation
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List [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**list.uvm.edu] On Behalf Of Melinda
Toumi
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2011 12:56 PM
To:
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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] new set of rules
kick
in
I think that (some/many) students do not take safety
seriously
or perhaps do not see it as a personal responsibility.
melinda
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:51 PM, Kennedy, Sheila <s1kennedy**At_Symbol_Here**ucsd.edu> wrote:
I’d very interested in your list for the “new set of rules [that] kick in” when our students move into industry.
Sheila
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Safety Coordinator
Teaching Laboratories
Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
University of California, San Diego
2011 NIOSH Collegiate Safety Award
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Subject: Re:
[DCHAS-L] Leg
Coverings in Labs
It is also very helpful to us out in the "world" if students are trained to observe safety practices that will be required when they get to us. A whole new set of rules kick in when they go from being "students" to being "employees".
To borrow a term from my Army days - "train the same way that you will fight".
Don
A. Long
CAIH, CEAS
I
Southwest
Research
Institute Laboratory
Pine
Bluff Chemical Agent Disposal Facility
PO Box 20130
White Hall, AR
71612
870-541-4930
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Nolan,
Dennis H
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Subject: Re:
[DCHAS-L] Leg
Coverings in Labs
It’s an ongoing process in academia. We strongly recommend too.
Here’s a poster we developed to help educate.
http://www.utexas.edu/safety/ehs/lab/no_pants_no_shoes.pd f
Dennis Nolan
The University of Texas at Austin
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Larry
McLouth
Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:25
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Subject: Re:
[DCHAS-L] Leg
Coverings in Labs
Berkeley Lab:
Safety glasses with side shields,
long
pants and closed toe shoes are required upon entry to a lab
space
Lab
coat and chemically resistant gloves are additionally required when
handling
chemicals.
This PPE is supplemented with goggles, aprons etc.,
depending
on the material and degree of
hazard
Regards
Larry
On 9/29/2011 8:55 AM,
Shiel,
Dan wrote:
I am interested to benchmark what other organizations do/ require regarding leg coverings in labs. Are legs required to be covered in all labs? Or in some labs, but not others (e.g., in chemistry labs, but biology/ biotech)? I realize that the default answer most of us who are EHS professionals would provide is “yes, of course leg coverings are required in labs!”, but again I am curious to learn what others actually doing and if the issue is directly addressed via your site CHP or other documents.
My site currently “strongly recommends” leg coverings in all labs and require them in labs using radioisotopes in our CHP (and in general have very few folks who actually wear shorts and/or skirts in labs, but some do on occasion), but are re-visiting this issue as part our ongoing risk assessment process.
Regards,
Dan
Dan Shiel, MBA, CSP, CHMM
Director, Risk & Quality Management Services
Pfizer La Jolla
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