Identifying and Evaluating Hazards in Research Laboratories, the new ACS report issued in September at the organization's national meeting in Indianapolis, is the society's response to a request the U.S. Chemical Safety Board made in its landmark 2011 report on
academic lab safety.
Progress on
Academic Lab Safety 02 October 2013 The University of California system has taken a series of encouraging steps to make its labs safer.
Not exact matches
Efforts to improve
safety standards and practices in
academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching
safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree.
Building a Culture of
Safety 5 June 2009 State OSHA investigations of a fatal fire at UCLA point to changes needed to make
academic labs safer.
The Burning Question of Laboratory
Safety 1 May 2009 In the wake of a
lab worker's death, experts warn that many
academic labs are unsafe.
A Blueprint for
Safety Action Now 02 December 2011 The Chemical
Safety Board's report on the Texas Tech explosion is a must - read for everyone in charge of an
academic lab.
Study to Examine
Academic Lab -
Safety Culture 05 June 2013 The yearlong study aims to improve campus safety prac
Safety Culture 05 June 2013 The yearlong study aims to improve campus
safety prac
safety practices.
Using a federal stick to enforce
lab safety 31 July 2014 Why don't federal funders demand safe
academic labs?
It's clear that the federal government can act strongly when it chooses to take action, to ensure
safety in government
labs or to combat
academic lab fraud.
In the
academic context, the CSB report continues, each
lab's PI must be fully engaged with
safety — a situation that, despite apparent improvements, is far too rare today.
The time has come for it to wield its stick to enhance
safety at the
academic labs it supports.
The Chemical
Safety Board's report on the Texas Tech explosion is essential reading for anyone in charge of an
academic lab
The 2009 death of 23 - year - old
lab assistant Sheri Sangji focused national attention on lax
safety standards in America's
academic labs.
On 27 July, the regents of the University of California (UC) took a step unprecedented in U.S. history, one that laboratory
safety experts believe is likely to help raise the customarily lax
safety standards that have prevailed until now in many
academic labs across the country.
But surveys find incidents to be much more common in
academic settings than in industrial
labs, says James Kaufman, president of the Laboratory
Safety Institute in Natick, Mass..
The rate of serious mishaps in industrial
labs is lower than that in
academic labs, in part because industrial
labs are more tightly regulated, according to experts, including James Kaufman, president of the Laboratory
Safety Institute in Natick, Mass..
The charges, apparently the first to be brought in an
academic safety incident, raise the widely neglected issue of
safety standards at university
labs.
Many university
labs operate as quasi-independent «fiefdoms,» according to the report;
lab chiefs have great authority to observe or ignore
safety standards and often see outside
safety checks as «infringing upon their
academic freedom.»
Also, CSB last week released a
safety video directed to researchers working in
academic labs.
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