This safety tip is taken from The Laboratory Safety Institute Guidelines.

Safety meetings are an integral part of a good safety program. You need to have a time when you and your colleagues can get together and focus on safety issues. Meetings that come as a follow-up on a regular safety inspection provide a good basis for discussion of problems and needs.

Both undergraduates and graduate students can benefit from participating in these discussions - it's a way for them to become more familiar with safety problems. They can see that the faculty is concerned about these issues and they may even contribute some good ideas.

How about having safety as a regular agenda item on your normal department meeting? Set aside 10-15 minutes for a safety topic. Ask a member of the department to pick a safety topic related to his or her particular interests and present a five minute review for the benefit of the rest of the group.