Prudent Practices in the Laboratory Handling and Disposal of Chemicals (1995) / Chapter Skim
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The Culture of Laboratory Safety
The Culture of Laboratory Safety
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Learning to participate in this culture of habitual risk assessment, experiment planning, and consideration of worst-case possibilities for oneself and one's fellow workers is as much a part of a scientific education as learning the theoretical background of experiments or the step-by-step protocols for doing them in a professional and craftsmanlike manner. Accordingly, a crucial component of chemical education at every level is to nurture basic attitudes and habits of prudent behavior in the laboratory so that safety is a valued and inseparable part of all laboratory activity.
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Nevertheless, the primary responsibility for maintaining safe behavior in a safe laboratory environment remains with the project manager or principal investigator. Each institution should develop policies that
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1.D SPECIAL SAFEW CONSIDERATIONS IN ACADEMIC LAB012ATORIES Academic laboratories, like industrial and government ones, are concerned with meeting the fundamental safety goals of minimizing accidents and injuries, but there are differences that should be recognized when developing prudent and realistic safety programs for teaching institutions. Forming the foundation for a lifelong attitude of safety consciousness, risk assessment, and prudent laboratory practice should be an integral part of every stage of scientific education- in the classroom, in textbooks, and in the laboratory from the earliest exposures in primary or secondary school through graduate and postdoctoral training.
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Training that is conducted simply to satisfy regulatory requirements tends to subordinate the relevant safety issues to details associated with compliance. Such bureaucratic safety management has actually worked against fostering positive safety attitudes in many well-experienced laboratory workers and has undermined the credibility of warnings about bona fide hazards by emphasizing pro forma violation of rules.
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As mentioned above, only students who have been educated carefully through a wellgraded series of hands-on experiments in the laboratory will have the confidence and expertise needed to handle real laboratory procedures in a safe manner as they move on to advanced courses or research work. 1.F.2 The Culture of Pollution Prevention A recent and widely accepted cultural change that affects laboratory work is the concept of pollution prevention.
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Boards of trustees or regents of educational institutions often include prominent industrial leaders who are highly aware of the increasing national concern with safety and environmental issues and are particularly sensitive to the possibility of institutional liability as a result of laboratory accidents. Academic and government labo
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The trustees can assist academic officers both by helping to develop an appropriate institutional safety system with an effective environmental health and safety office and by supporting departmental requests for modifications of facilities that are necessary for compliance with safety regulations. Increasing concern for laboratory safety is also being engendered by federal granting agencies.
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