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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 12:58:58 -0400
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Subject: 3 Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Training
Date: August 26, 2010 11:43:40 AM EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety
Training
I have
been reading all of the responses to your request and find them
interesting but don't remember reading a response where the question of
"why are workers" missing safety training classes. Maybe before we
get involved in determining how to get the workers to attend
training we need to find out why they are avoiding it. Having
trained 90,000 people over a 30 year period I have several ideas.
To mention one, is the training worth attending? Also, getting
them in the classroom is only part of the question--what are they taking
out of the classroom .
Rudy Gerlach, Ph.D.,
CET
Gerlach Trainging &
Consulting
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Date: August 26, 2010
11:31:06 AM EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L]
Safety Training
Lynn, Rob
& the rest of the list - don't misunderstand us academic safety
folks! We'd love to have a stronger, more compliant training program and
we all realize that lack of safety training is directly related to
increased accidents. Universities are not set up the same way as private
companies, tho. Department Heads/Chairs may or may not have any impact
over their PIs who work off of research dollars. The turn over is
incredible in labs - students, post docs, faculty come & go all
semester long. All lab workers are not "employees" either - there are
many students conducting research that are unpaid (not TAs, GA, etc
either). These aren't excuses for not getting it done, its just our
reality. We work with departments & say we have mandatory training,
but if someone misses the class, there isn't always a repercussion.
That's why we work to offer training in as many ways as possible (live,
on line, email reminders, handouts, etc). Having NRC license
requirements does mean our rad folks make sure they have the training,
but those requirements are not in place for EPA & OSHA
training.
Just my
opinion, not the opinion of my employer
Kim
Auletta
Lab Safety
Specialist
EH&S
Z=6200
Stony Brook
University
631-632-3032
Remember to wash your hands!
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Date: August 26, 2010 11:35:27 AM EDT
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety
Training
Such good common sense. And somewhere along the
way its gotten lost. When I took my first chemistry courses at the
U of Wisconsin in the 1950s, you couldn't get into your first lab class
until you produced the pink slip given to each person who went through
the safety orientation. Safety training for students
shouldn't be up for debate. Monona
Academia needs
to wake up and have a simple outright ban on all laboratory work until
the worker has completed their mandatory safety
training. We don't allow folks to start driving and
then "get around to" getting their driver's licenses, do we?
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