University of Calgary
Lab Safety
Submitted by support on Fri, 2012-06-22 10:23.
The University of Calgary considers health and safety to be a priority and is committed to providing a safe and healthy work and study environment for the entire University community including its laboratory environments.
Laboratory personnel including workers, students and visitors are exposed to potential hazards unique to laboratory settings and hazardous materials each and every day. In order to address the health, safety and environmental challenges specific to the laboratories, programs, safety and procedure manuals and laboratory specific training courses have been developed by EH&S.
The ultimate goal of the University is to minimize the risk of injury or illness to laboratory workers by ensuring that they have the proper training, information, support and equipment necessary to work safely in the laboratory.
Because the hazards vary from lab to lab, employers (supervisors) must address the hazards specific to their workplaces by developing and implementing:
- Written safe work and emergency procedures
- Training and education of workers
- Workplace inspections (regular and special inspections of workplace equipment, methods, and practices)
- Investigation of workplace accidents (accident investigations and reports)
- First aid equipment and procedures
- Periodic management meetings to review health and safety activities
- Regular staff safety meetings or an occupational health and safety committee where required
- Records and statistics