Planning for safety against laboratory hazards Recognizing lab hazards and selecting appropriate PPE Keeping your equipment safe and maintaining it Staying professional in the lab Knowing proper procedures and scenarios for waste disposal Having emergency response plans in place and working with supervisors
Course Overview
Hey you! Yeah, you in the lab coat. What are you, a student? A researcher? Part of the cleaning crew? Well, whatever your role, you’re in the right place. I’m here to help orient you to laboratory safety and make sure you’re up to speed on the most relevant regulations for lab equipment and material use, while also not screwing up the environment in the process. OSHA – (You know who they are, right? They’re the Occupational Safety and Health Administration - setting the basic compliance standards for safe work practices) – yeah anyway, OSHA provides very specific lab safety guidance that’s aimed at keeping you and everyone else working in a lab environment safe. My goal is to do that and show you how to keep your lab in compliance (and therefore in legal operation).
A lot of stuff can go wrong in a lab environment. You’ve got to be able to recognize these hazards - anticipating what can go wrong and then doing everything possible to protect yourself and others. There’s an approach to workplace safety that’s aimed at ensuring safe work environments - maybe you’ve heard of it, it’s called the Hierarchy of Controls. The Hierarchy of Controls goes from top-to-bottom as the most effective control method to the least effective. We’ll cover things like recognizing certain hazards with things like Safety Data Sheets, knowing when PPE should be worn, and learning HAZCOM. You don’t want to be the class clown in a laboratory and joke around, being professional is a key to keeping everyone safe in a dangerous environment. Along with this, knowing the specific procedures of waste disposal are very important. Lastly, we’ll cover emergency response plans you’ll want to be familiar with and coordinate with your supervisors and safety officers to know the procedures to stay safe in any sort of emergency.
Don’t be a cautionary tale used to scare-straight interns. Learn lab safety; live lab safety. Say that five times fast… no really, try it. Then get back to work - content in the knowledge that, although you can’t do my tongue twister, this course will equip you to work safely in the laboratory environment.
This program is available with Spanish and French closed captions.
Compliance Standards & Regulations
This course references the standards and regulations listed below.
29 CFR 1910.132-134, 138, 147, 1030, 1200, and 1450
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What’s the last line of defense in the Hierarchy of Controls?
While PPE is extremely important, especially when used correctly in the workplace, it should be considered your last line of defense in the lab. You will want to go through the Hierarchy of Controls in order to make sure you can stop the risk before it happens. The controls include elimination, substitution, engineering controls, and administrative controls.
What are Safety Data Sheets?
They are materials with details about certain hazardous chemicals. Employers need to have SDSs in the workplace for each hazardous chemical in use. The chemical suppliers must provide these so they’re accessible for lab workers.
What does HAZOM or the Hazard Communication Standard cover?
The Safety Data Sheets are part of this, but the nuts ‘n’ bolts include properly labeling (and when needed relabeling) containers to identify chemicals and hazards, developing and maintaining a written hazard communication plan, reading placards, and overall knowing how to interpret product identifiers, pictograms, signal words – a slew of stuff.
What’s in an Emergency Response Plan?
This document’s gonna be jam-packed with job- and site-specific procedures for what to do when stuff hits the fan. It’ll cover things from dealing with benchtop fires, spills, cuts – the whole shebang!
Who’s gonna help me with emergency situations?
Your supervisor or safety officer – they’re gonna want to drill you on a few things, like how to locate and use emergency eyewash stations, safety showers, fire blankets, and extinguishers – ya know, stuff like that to deal with “foreseeable emergencies.”
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