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[DCHAS-L] Safety value of housekeeping
We're getting ready for a presentation to our new chemistry department
grad students about keeping a safe lab. Over the years, we've
developed a strong professional intuition that good laboratory
housekeeping improves safety and prevents accidents. However, I'd like
to throw some numbers at this scientifically oriented audience to give
housekeeping a value beyond motherhood and apple pie. Is anyone
familiar with a source of statistics that might apply to this question?
I'm sure that definitions of many of the words above are hazy, so
going the anecdotal approach is the alternative, but I'd like to try
for numbers if possible.
Thanks for any help.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH
Environmental Safety Manager
University of Vermont
Environmental Safety Facility
667 Spear St. Burlington, VT 05405
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I asked our HSSE Manager for references
to statistics available for housekeeping in the chemical industry. He provided
two:
1. Professional
Safety (December
1, 1997 )
by Patric
E McCon: Housekeeping
& injury rate: A correlation study It may have hard numbers
as well.
2. J. Occup . Health 1997; 39:
100-104: "Monitoring of Accidents and Risk Events in Industrial Plants."
This does in fact have statistics on the relationship between housekeeping
and accidents/
This topic seems to be a good one for
further original research.
Ujjvala (Vaiju) Bagal
Methods Development Chemist/Chemiical Hygiene Officer
Phone: 01-912-964-9050 ext.53236
Fax: 01-912-966-5917
Email: Vaiju.Bagal**At_Symbol_Here**emdchemicals.com
EMD Chemicals
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We're getting ready for a presentation to our new
chemistry department
grad students about keeping a safe lab. Over the years, we've
developed a strong professional intuition that good laboratory
housekeeping improves safety and prevents accidents. However, I'd like
to throw some numbers at this scientifically oriented audience to give
housekeeping a value beyond motherhood and apple pie. Is anyone
familiar with a source of statistics that might apply to this question?
I'm sure that definitions of many of the words above are hazy, so
going the anecdotal approach is the alternative, but I'd like to try
for numbers if possible.
Thanks for any help.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH
Environmental Safety Manager
University of Vermont
Environmental Safety Facility
667 Spear St. Burlington, VT 05405
rstuart**At_Symbol_Here**uvm.edu
fax: (802)656-5407
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