Safety Culture & Compliance
When safety is done right it should be recognized.
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Growing up in Mexico, Victor Zavala saw energy in a different light. Electricity was expensive and scarce. Heating and cooling systems were not commonplace, and climate control had more to do with putting on a sweater or wearing shorts than adjusting
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A building at the University of Minnesota reopened Thursday after being evacuated the night before when a chemical spill sent two students to the hospital for observation. University officials reopened the Phillips Wangensteen Building once a hazardo
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Routine service of laboratory fume hoods includes the periodic changing of burned-out fluorescent light tubes.
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When my skills at organization begin to breakdown, I know its time to create a checklist. I find checklists offer a simple solution to restoring control and then staying on track. Safety checklists in the lab are a work in progress, but as long as yo
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Exemplary efforts to "go green" at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have resulted in a 2010 Federal Energy & Water Management Award and a 2010 Department of Energy Management Award in recognition of the lab's Sustainable Campus Initiative.
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Based on responses to our Lab Safety Survey, our readers are doing a pretty good job of providing safe workplaces and watching out for their employees when it comes to safety.
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Each person needs to be responsible for safety in general and for a specific part of the program in particular.
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Basic rules for the use, care, transport and storage of compressed gas cylinders.
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A change schedule is the part of the written respirator program which says how often cartridges should be replaced and what information was relied upon to make this judgment. A cartridge's useful service life is how long it provides adequate protection.
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An explosion at University of Missouri this afternoon injured four people and damaged Schweitzer Hall. University officials said the four people injured, none critically, were taken to University Hospital. One person was admitted and was in good condition.
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The human and environmental tragedy that continues to unfold in the Gulf of Mexico has important lessons for lab managers. I'll be writing an article for the December issue of "Lab Manager" on the lessons in crisis management that the situation holds
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