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From: Margaret Rakas <mrakas**At_Symbol_Here**SMITH.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] CSB report and lab safety training
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 12:07:13 -0500
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For students who will work in research labs, I have approximately 50 minutes to talk with them about basic safety response, requirements regarding when medical followup is needed, the lab buddy system, questions they should ask their advisors proactively, how sharps must be disposed of, biomedical waste and hazardous waste handling. The chemists, physicists, engineers, neuroscience and bio students all sit in the same training seminar. So no, I do not discuss the CSB reports with students.

For our summer program, when I have 2 hours with them, I do discuss the UCLA incidents--both the pyrophoric one and the one where a bio grad student got badly burned when sterilizing using ethanol and a bunsen burner. I think stories make more of an impression...and while the rainbow experiment certainly has a number of stories, it's not research-relevant.

my two cents...
Margaret

On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 9:17 AM, Stuart, Ralph <ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu> wrote:
Random Tuesday question:
I wonder how many DCHAS members include a discussion of the 2011 Chemical Safety Board report on safety in research laboratories or their 2013 "After the Rainbow" video in their general lab safety training? I'm preparing a presentation for lab communities at a couple of diverse institutions and time is tight. I wonder whether the audiences will need details about what the incidents at Dartmouth, UCLA, Texas Tech or with rainbow demonstrations involve or whether I can just refer the audience to the reports for more detail?

Thanks for any thoughts on this.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859

ralph.stuart**At_Symbol_Here**keene.edu

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