Lab Safety
Not only should these items be provided but they should be test or checked monthly.
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Members of the California state Senate voted unanimously Aug. 22 to approve the state bill requested by the University of California to help stem the campaign of violence and intimidation by animal-rights terrorists against researchers and their families.
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Employers are responsible for providing personal protective equipment (PPE) such as safety glasses, goggles, face shields, gloves, lab coats, and bench top shields. Employees are responsible for using these devices.
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Research evidence suggests that good leadership has positive effects on employee health and well being, including decreased sick leave and disability, reports the August Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM).
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The Food and Drug Administration has announced several improved policies and procedures strengthening its management of FDA advisory committees. The improvements include stricter limits on financial conflicts of interest for committee members, improved voting procedures, and improvements to the processes for disclosing information pertaining both to advisory committee members and to specific matters considered at advisory committee meetings.
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In order to ensure chemical safety in the workplace, information must be available about the identities and hazards of the chemicals.
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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' Pearl River, N.Y., research and manufacturing facility has become the 2,000th worksite in the United States to be recognized in the elite Voluntary Protection Programs (VPP) of the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
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Appropriate eye protection is defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Z-87.1 standard. The most current edition is 1989.
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The establishment of a separate accounting line for safety and health related purchases is essential. This allows you to clearly track monies expended for this purpose.
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The RoHS Directive stands for the restriction of the use of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment. This Directive bans the placing on the EU market of new electrical and electronic equipment containing more than agreed levels of lead, cadmium, mercury, hexavalent chromium, polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) and polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants.
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While the Lab Standard does not require specific work practices for individual experiments, it does stipulate that employers generate a list of recognized good practices which lab workers are expected to follow,
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Good housekeeping is one of the foundations of good safety practice.
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