Additionally, a new cumulative exam required for chemistry graduate students will cover responsible conduct of research topics,
including laboratory safety.
Such a settlement is a «very normal process... when the employer shows a good faith effort» to improve its safety performance, says James Kaufman, president of the nonprofit
Laboratory Safety Institute in Natick, Massachusetts.
The University of California (UC) Center
for Laboratory Safety has been retained to carry out «an independent investigation to determine the cause of the explosion» in a Hawaii Natural Energy Institute biofuels research laboratory at the University of Hawaii (UH), Manoa, on 16 March, the university's chancellor, Robert Bley - Vroman, announced in a 4 April statement.
«Most importantly,» it says, «an effective
laboratory safety program must be integrated into the research process rather than being an annual housekeeping exercise conducted days before an anticipated annual laboratory inspection» (italics added).
Now president and CEO of BioRAFT, a company that develops and sells software for managing university laboratories, Nathan Watson also serves on the board of directors of the
nonprofit Laboratory Safety Institute.
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.
Chancellor Gene Block commissioned the campus - wide
laboratory safety committee following the January 2009 death of staff research associate Sheharbano (Sheri) Sangji from injuries suffered in a laboratory fire.
For example, graduate departments need to do a better job of teaching
laboratory safety skills, not only to keep academic researchers safe but also to give them a skill that is regarded as essential in most companies.
During Tom Frieden's seven and a half years as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, his agency was buffeted by crises that included government furloughs, H1N1 flu,
laboratory safety issues, an earthquake in Haiti, and outbreaks of Ebola and Zika virus.
It is the # 1
laboratory safety rule young scientists learn to never break and for good reason; it keeps lab citizens alive and unscathed.
Established in the wake of Sangji's death, it aims «to sponsor and support research in laboratory safety [and] develop and translate research into applied best practices» that labs across the country can adopt, according to its Web site.
These include the need to «maintain a
comprehensive laboratory safety program» that meets specific, stipulated safety standards and is monitored by a court - appointed special master with the authority to impose fines of up to $ 500,000 on the university for noncompliance.
The GAO
audited laboratory safety oversight following errors that could have exposed dozens of people to live anthrax bacteria and the deadly toxin ricin.
«You need to learn about those risks and how they can be safely managed before making the decision whether or not to work with them,» says W. Emmett Barkley, director of the office of
laboratory safety at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Next, «EH&S staff met with the
Institutional Laboratory Safety Committee and the Principal Investigator involved to convey these recommendations and review updated procedures.»
Laboratory safety emerged as a prominent issue in China in 2004, when a series of missteps at China's Center for Disease Control and Prevention led to a renewed outbreak of severe acute respiratory sickness (SARS).
Home scientists arguably lack the tools to stumble upon a new strain of influenza or accidentally create a deadly bioweapon, but they are apt to overlook
fundamental laboratory safety measures that are important even when working with seemingly benign microbes.
Long -
term laboratory safety study of lokivetmab (ZTS - 00103289), a caninized, anti-canine IL - 31 monoclonal antibody, in normal dogs
The cited violations essentially mirror the shortcomings identified in the July investigative report from the University of California Center
for Laboratory Safety.
The Association of Public and Land - Grant Universities (APLU)-- which comprises more than 230 institutions and university systems from every state, the District of Columbia, Mexico, Canada, Guam, Samoa, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands — has formed a task force
on laboratory safety.
Laboratory safety experts, however, say the fire was no more an accident — in the sense of a mishap that happens by chance — than being thrown from a car while not wearing a seat belt.
«Regardless of what happens to Harran, I think the awareness
of laboratory safety has been brought to the forefront,» Elston continues.
PIs, Fivizzani continues, «have to take responsibility for primary instruction
in laboratory safety and especially research - specific safety.»
The phenomenon of similar, repeated recommendations from multiple expert studies producing relatively little change is not unique to these types of workforce issues; a similar, steadily growing series of careful, judicious, and thoughtful reports has accumulated over recent years in the field of
laboratory safety, which is also beset by serious problems.
This statement was written in the context of a gun rights case, but it seems to us that it's also relevant to another issue:
laboratory safety.
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.
Though delayed several times, the two - part report from the University of California Center for
Laboratory Safety (UCCLS) is well worth the wait.
The University of California's new Center for
Laboratory Safety is a hopeful sign of progress, he says.
Under its detailed provisions, existing chiefs of all affected labs must complete training covering «the Principal Investigator's responsibilities for
laboratory safety,» as well as a «laboratory safety training program.»
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laboratory safety, and so on.
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 new group «will provide research universities with recommendations and guidance on the most appropriate strategies to enhance a culture of
laboratory safety,» according to a 23 April announcement.
In January 2010, an explosion in a chemistry lab at Texas Tech University (TTU) in Lubbock seriously injured a graduate student and touched off an investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board that led to a groundbreaking report on
laboratory safety.
This past September, the university brought in
the Laboratory Safety Institute, a lab safety training organization, to give seminars to senior administrators and anyone else on campus who wanted to attend.