Pamela, Well, you have a structure for the program and it sounds like no one is doing it. The site lays out everyone's responsibility and provides no source for training either onsite or face-to-face. I love the paragraph for lab workers and students:
1. Laboratory workers and students have the basic responsibility for caring for own safety. These individuals are more likely to become affected by chemicals or biohazards, and most able to control exposure to themselves and others to those hazards through the use of proper safety equipment and appropriate handling techniques. Laboratory workers and students are responsible for:
Then there is a long list of things that students are responsible for and one is "f. Complete all required safety training." And this training program would be where? Ask them.
But you need contact the "Chief Emergency Management Officer (CEMO) is and request from him/her a copy of the Chemical Hygiene Guide which is reviewed "at least annually." If that is just this General stuff I just downloaded, it is nothing. It's just a a laundry list of what you are responsible for without helping you.
The CEMO, Risk Management and Facilities are charged with "assist[ing] with the development and implementation of appropriate chemical hygiene policies and practices, and Risk management is supposed to have a training program and to "maintain training and audit documentation." Ask for training in lab safety. Also ask about storing waste under the fume hood again. And DO IT IN AN EMAIL OR IN WRITING. You want a paper trail. If they are smart and know not to incriminate themselves, then take copious notes on all conversations, time, date content.
In other words, they have given both students and teachers responsibilities for which they are untrained and they are not providing the training and assistance needed.
Monona
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From: Pam Auburn <aubu**At_Symbol_Here**HOTMAIL.COM>
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This is all I could find
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Lone Star College was founded in 1973 and offers Associate Degrees, Workforce Certificates and Transfer Credits.
www.lonestar.edu
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Guide Background This Chemical Hygiene Guide provides a set of guidelines designed to protect the health and safety of faculty, staff and students in LSCS laboratories.
www.lonestar.edu
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Pamela Auburn, PhD
2041 Branard
Houston TX 77098
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Good James. That's the first question and why I advised Pamela to get on her own schools website and look for information about safety programs. It will be there. Monona
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Sent: Thu, Feb 13, 2020 9:22 am
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Chemical Waste Handling
Pamela,
Do you work at a public or private institution?
James A. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Founder, LSI
508-574-6264
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Can some one lead me to resources on how waste is collected and handled in teaching labs. There is some debate going on at my school. We do not have a chemical hygiene officer. Chemical waste falls under the Emergency Response Manager. She did not like our
use of carboys with safety funnels, (labeled separated into aqueous, acid, organic and halogenated organic) in hoods and asked that we keep waste in closed containers in the cabinets beneath the hoods. I can see problems with this but do not know where to
go for authoritative background.
Thanks
Pamela Auburn, PhD
2041 Branard
Houston TX 77098
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