Vince McLeod, CIH
Articles by Vince McLeod, CIH
What recent industrial disasters can teach lab managers about the cost/benefits of safety.
Preventing back injury requires instruction, training, assessment, & ongoing evaluation
Creating the best slip, trip, and fall prevention program for your lab
This month the Safety Guys aim to raise awareness and discuss the prevention of blood-borne pathogen (BBP) exposures, beginning with an overview of the OSHA standard and a discussion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s universal precautions.
How to design and implement a successful lockout/tag out program for your facililty.
Recently we had the unpleasant experience of investigating a gruesome and almost deadly accident. A maintenance worker was removing a cable tie from a package on the loading dock when his pocketknife slipped and punctured his thigh, slicing his femoral artery.
What lab managers need to now about new labeling, compliance dates, MSDS, training, and more.
Characterize chemical waste correctly to ensure safety & avoid fines and penalties.
There is a good chance you spend many hours at a computer workstation entering data and researching databases. By setting up your computer workstation optimally and paying attention to a few key elements of positioning and alignment, you can greatly reduce the chance of an ergonomic injury.
This column is for research labs that involve animal procedures or surgeries. We encounter anesthetic gas use in many settings such as medical research, veterinary schools, dental research labs and dental colleges, and biological research facilities.
This column will focus on ethylene oxide, a frequently used and potentially dangerous sterilizing agent. Also known as EtO or EO, it is highly compatible with today’s polymer-based single-use medical devices, procedure kits, surgical trays, etc.
