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1 The Culture of Laboratory Safety
1 The Culture of Laboratory Safety
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1 The Culture of Laboratory Safety 1.A INTRODUCTION 2 1.B THE CULTURE OF LABORATORY SAFETY 2 1.C RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR LABORATORY SAFETY 2 1.D SPECIAL SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS IN ACADEMIC LABORATORIES 3 1.D.1 High School Teaching Laboratories 3 1.D.2 Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories 3 1.D.3 Academic Research Laboratories 4 1.E THE SAFETY CULTURE IN INDUSTRIAL AND GOVERNMENTAL LABORATORIES 4 1.F OTHER FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE LABORATORY SAFETY PROGRAMS 5 1.F.1 Advances in Technology 5 1.F.2 Environmental Impact 5 1.F.3 Changes in the Legal and Regulatory Requirements 5 1.F.4 Accessibility for Scientists with Disabilities 5 1.G LABORATORY SECURITY 7 1.H STRUCTURE OF THE BOOK 7 1.I SUMMARY 7 1
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Local, state, and Ensuring a safe laboratory environment is the comfederal regulations codify this accountability. bined responsibility of laboratory personnel, EHS Beyond regulation, employers and scientists also personnel, and the management of an organization, hold themselves responsible for the well-being of though the primary responsibility lies with the indibuilding occupants and the general public.
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To be most effective, they safety and should also teach sound environmental should partner with department chairpersons, safety practice when managing chemical waste. Advanced directors, CHOs, principal investigators or managers, high school chemistry courses should assume the same and laboratory personnel to design safety programs responsibilities for developing professional attitudes that provide technical guidance and training support toward safety and waste management as are expected that are relevant to the operations of the laboratory, are of college and university courses.
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The manual simply to satisfy regulatory requirements may seem can include sections on principles of laboratory safety; like compliance, and researchers may sense that the laboratory facilities; teaching assistant duties during training does not have the leader's full support. EHS the laboratory session; chemical management; applica- offices and researchers can work together to address ble safety rules; teaching assistant and student apparel, such concerns and to design training sessions that teaching assistant and student personal protective fulfill regulatory requirements, provide training perequipment; departmental policy on pregnant students ceived as directly relevant to the researchers' work, in laboratories; and emergency preparedness in the and provide hands-on experience with safety practices event of a fire, chemical spill, or injury in the laboratory.
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For example, dramatically reducing the quantity 1.F OTHER FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE of chemicals used in teaching laboratories may leave LABORATORY SAFETY PROGRAMS the student with an unrealistic appreciation of his or Several key factors continue to affect the evolution her behavior when using them on a larger scale. Also, of laboratory safety programs in industry, government, certain types of pollution prevention activities, such and academe.
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laboratory operations. Because of increased regula- Federal granting agencies recognize the importance tions, the collection and disposal of laboratory waste of sound laboratory practices and active laboratory constitute major budget items in the operation of every safety programs in academe.
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Chapters 2, 3, and 10 cover administrative and organizational 1.G LABORATORY SECURITY concerns that affect the laboratory environment; Chap Laboratory security is an issue that has grown in ters 4–8 discuss practical concerns when working in a prominence in recent years and is complementary to laboratory; Chapter 9 discusses laboratory facilities; laboratory safety. In short, a laboratory safety program and Chapter 11 provides an overview of federal regulashould be designed to protect people and chemicals tions that affect laboratory activities.
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