In the Journal of Chemical Safety,
lab safety expert Neil Langerman wrote, «The death of Ms. Sangji was the direct result of management failure throughout the UCLA administration, from Chancellor Gene Block through Professor Harran and the [Environmental Health and Safety] department.»
Lab safety experts agree that making people aware that explosions, fires, poisonings, and other lab safety incidents happen because of risky decisions is an essential step in making those incidents far less common.
Echoing
lab safety experts quoted in Science Careers last month, Cal / OSHA also faulted a lack of safety training and noted «unsafe work practices identified during inspection and not corrected in a timely manner.»
Others, especially
lab safety experts, saw conviction as the well - deserved — and cautionary — consequence of neglect.
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.
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.
I wish I could report that Sangji's needless death inspired a national drive among universities and professors to create what
safety experts call a strong «culture of
safety» in
labs everywhere.
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.
We'll speak with
safety officials, radiation
experts, architects and regulatory staff to let you know what it takes to maintain your
lab.
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..
It's a need that exists at many institutions,
lab -
safety experts and researchers say — and not just in the
lab of UCLA chemistry and biochemistry chair Patrick Harran, where Sangji was engulfed in flames as she worked without a
lab coat with a pyrophoric substance on 29 December 2008.
But at the end of 2013, a new group of
safety experts, commissioned by the
lab to guide its reforms, delivered bad news just as the
lab was attempting to restart operations at PF - 4.
The third annual
Safety Day filled Berkner Hall June 6 with Lab staff, summer students, subject matter experts, and outside safety product vendors for a fun and useful learning exper
Safety Day filled Berkner Hall June 6 with
Lab staff, summer students, subject matter
experts, and outside
safety product vendors for a fun and useful learning exper
safety product vendors for a fun and useful learning experience.
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