Creating a Safety Culture How Does One Create a “Safety Culture” in the Laboratory? Start by Making Safe Science as Important as Good Science.

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Creating a Safety Culture How Does One Create a “Safety Culture” in the Laboratory? Start by Making Safe Science as Important as Good Science.

Creating a Safety Culture Safety is No Accident –You have to MAKE it happen –That means Time Effort Resources Money

Creating a Safety Culture Making Safety Happen Assign and Empower Someone to: –Be responsible for Chematix compliance –Conduct weekly lab inspections –Conduct weekly eyewash checks –Conduct monthly fire extinguisher checks

Making Safety Happen EHS recommends that lab inspection and equipment check duties rotate weekly to different members of the group to give everyone a sense of “ownership” and responsibility for overall lab safety.

Creating A Safety Culture Lab Self Inspections Should Look At: Housekeeping Accessibility of Emergency Equipment Flush the eyewash/document Gas cylinders, restrained/capped when not in use/ number within allowances/ no toxic gases that have not been approved Spill kits- present, appropriate, and complete Hand washing facilities- soap and towels available Chemicals have Chematix labels- no one has been sneaking chemicals into the lab Egress- Main aisles are 48” unobstructed/ others 36” unobstructed Doors not blocked Labeling- all in house labels are RTK compliant Waste is labeled appropriately, in secondary containment, and segregated as needed Electrical panels/boxes have 36” of open space in front Food in the lab Other issues specific to your lab- s/a calcium gluconate is easy to find

Creating a Safety Culture Training 1 Make Sure Group Members are Adequately Trained: RTK-annually Fire Safety Training- once Basic Lab Safety-every 3 years On line waste training- every 3 years On line training for shipping- every 3 years On line training for gas cylinder handling Biosafety/Radiation Safety/Laser Safety as appropriate

Creating a Safety Culture Training 2 Lab Inspectors are required to verify that lab users have had adequate training to be in the lab. Place copies of training certificates in an envelope posted near the door.

Creating a Safety Culture Training 3 Create a New Lab User Orientation List Cover things like exit locations, emergency equipment, PPE and attire requirements, evacuation procedures, hazards that are unique to your lab s/a specific chemicals or equipment Have the new person sign the list when you are done- File it.

Creating a Safety Culture SOPs Create a library of Standard Operating Procedures for everything you do routinely-keep it in a notebook For highly hazardous procedures- add a signature page and make everyone read and sign that they have read it

Creating a Safety Culture Pre-Planning Teach your group members to plan their experiments from start (virgin chemicals & equipment) to end (waste) Make locating everything needed ahead of time a requirement per the SOP

Creating a Safety Culture Surprise Safety Drills 1 Announce to your group members that you (or one of your senior staff) will be holding “surprise drills” A few days later, have a senior staff member hand someone in the lab (chosen at random) an index card that says one of the following things- This is a drill, please demonstrate the proper procedure as if you had –Just splashed acid in your eyes –Just spilled sodium hydroxide in your lap –A fire break out on your lab bench

Creating a Safety Culture Lab Drills 2 Group members would not be required to actually pull the shower ring, for example, but they would be required to move to the closet shower/eyewash/ fire extinguisher quickly and without prompting to demonstrate that they know were it is and how to turn it on.

Creating a Safety Culture Annual Lab Clean Outs 1 Make lab clean outs an annual event that everyone must take part in (don’t just dump it on your lab manager) Make attendance mandatory for all group members to ensure that they are active participants in the safety process.

Creating a Safety Culture Annual Lab Clean Outs 2 Work best when done in conjunction with one of the chemical inventory reconciliations- get rid of aging PECs and things you don’t use anymore (this includes samples). Georgia Institute of Technology

Creating a Safety Culture Annual Lab Clean Outs 3 Graduating students are required to clean out their space (and freezer storage) and dispose of left-over chemicals prior to leaving the lab group (or receiving their last pay check). Georgia Institute of Technology

Creating a Safety Culture Monthly Safety Meetings 1 Hold monthly meetings- Your most valuable resource is your time. If you don’t demonstrate that safety is important to you by taking a little time out of your busy schedule every month to talk about safety- –Then nobody is going to pay attention to anything you say!

Creating a Safety Culture Monthly Safety Meetings 2 Can be part of a another meeting Don’t have to be very long You can talk about recent events, drills, near misses, spills, etc. You can use them to show safety videos borrowed from EHS. You can bring in guest speakers on a safety topic of your choosing (EHS does requests)

Creating a Culture of Safety Set a Good Example- Rules about hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), and proper attire won’t mean anything if you don’t follow them yourself: Neither will they mean anything if you won’t correct the behavior of subordinates who don’t follow them.

Creating a Culture of Safety The time and effort that you expend on safety will be directly reflected in the safety practices of your group members