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Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:19:57 -0400
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From: "Floyd, Karon" <Karon.Floyd**At_Symbol_Here**DHS.GOV>
Subject: Re: Lab Coat policy query
We consider lab coats part of PPE. Also, if you are making it a
mandatory requirement, then the organization should be responsible for
ensuring that they are available and usable. Otherwise, you really can't
enforce a mandatory requirement when you leave it up to the students.
Karon L. Floyd,
Center Safety Officer
Plum Island Animal Disease Center
USDHS, S&T
Direct: (631) 323-3332
Fax: (631) 323-3097
Email: karon.floyd**At_Symbol_Here**dhs.gov
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break
your word or lose your self-respect. -Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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From: DCHAS-L Discussion List on behalf of Humphrey, Karalyn J.
Sent: Wed 4/6/2011 12:21 PM
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Lab Coat policy query
Greetings!
My university is looking at rewriting their lab coat policy to make them
mandatory for certain lower level teaching labs. What we're currently
trying to iron out are the details of the following:
1) Are the students responsible for keeping up with their own lab
coat, or is it the department's responsibility to store the coats for
all the students?
2) Who is responsible for laundering the coats - the department or
the students?
We have a lab enrollment of several thousand students. My current
thinking is to allow the students to keep up with and launder their own
coats, except in the case of a chemical spill. But I wanted to put out
this query and see what other institutions were doing.
Thank you,
Karen Humphrey
Laboratory Coordinator & Safety Officer / Part-time Lecturer
Baylor Univ. Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Office: BSB E.111
Phone: (254) 710-2002
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