tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post3805166052079477787..comments2024-03-27T21:23:40.339-04:00Comments on Chemjobber: UC Regents's agreement with the Los Angeles County DAChemjobberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-15303703772427084992012-08-02T09:19:50.355-04:002012-08-02T09:19:50.355-04:00Thanks, Anon -- it's helpful to know that. Hav...Thanks, Anon -- it's helpful to know that. Have you seen anyone kicked out of the lab for not wearing their PPE by their PI?Chemjobberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15932113680515602275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-9600288872973480452012-08-01T21:19:06.946-04:002012-08-01T21:19:06.946-04:00The lab coat service, other PPE rules, training re...The lab coat service, other PPE rules, training requirements, and SOPs have already been in effect for the last 1-2 years, at least in my department. This agreement is basically UCLA doing what we have been doing since the accident.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-48740297989379525542012-07-31T12:51:49.336-04:002012-07-31T12:51:49.336-04:00I've been involved with my company's effor...I've been involved with my company's effort to obtain OSHA VPP status at the R&D campus where I work. We've just submitted our application, which took about 18-24 months of work by several different committees (SOPs, industrial hygiene, contingency plan, etc.). It's been a difficult, evolving process. After our visit from OSHA this fall, hopefully things will become a little more set in stone. As an R&D center, though, we will still have to continually update our standards/plans as we work with new materials and investigate new processes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-72250849047063422492012-07-31T11:03:30.625-04:002012-07-31T11:03:30.625-04:00Coming from a small start-up, we had to prepare SO...Coming from a small start-up, we had to prepare SOPs, a Lab Safety Manual (for chemicals and biologics) and enforce mandatory PPE. In planning experiments, if employees were to perform experiments outside the normal working hours, we tried to have the buddy system. Honestly, it was hard. It was time consuming to set up and enforce. It required planning and forethought and being vigilant. However, once the work environment and culture is set up, maintenance of the system is easier. Sure, you can cite government guidelines and the risk of lawsuits if there were accidents as being the driving force behind this endeavor. In reality, what happened was our mindsets accepted that along with being responsible for good solid science coming out of the laboratory we were also responsible for ensuring the safety of our team within the laboratory. <br /><br />Post-docs and graduate students are future scientists who need and deserve the best-training, including safety training. No one wants a repeat of this terrible tragedy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-43120242219066407652012-07-30T13:07:39.901-04:002012-07-30T13:07:39.901-04:00I'm assuming lab hours and necessary condition...I'm assuming lab hours and necessary conditions for work at night will have to be written into these operating procedures. This sounds like a tremendous amount of work for the students and PIs if these procedures don't already exist somewhere. Also who is approving the operating procedures? Is it just the PI? The safety department? A committee? <br /><br />As far as washing lab coats, it is important for certain types of materials to be washed a certain way. In general a regular wash will destroy the chemical resistant ability of the coat. UCLA will probably employ a service to do this for them, which is pretty common.Unstable Isotopenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8964719845369935777.post-50537386109961276042012-07-30T11:30:01.439-04:002012-07-30T11:30:01.439-04:00Aside from the pyrophoric Lab Buddy, is there anyt...Aside from the pyrophoric Lab Buddy, is there anything about working odd hours, including holidays when the entire campus is 'shut down'? That and the co-workers that were neither present nor evidently communicated effectively in English stuck out to me.<br /><br />Ironic that Harran, who in his statement was so worried about safety guidelines preventing work around the clock, is now <i>so slow</i> about appearing in court to answer for his crimes.bad wolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15804828431479742741noreply@blogger.com