Hi Kim –

FYI. Below is a link to another UCLA guidance document on the selection and use of PPE.

http://ehs.ucla.edu/Pub/PPE_Guidance.pdf

Best regards, James

James H. Gibson, PhD, MPH

Director

UCLA Office of Environment, Health and Safety

501 Westwood Plaza, 4^th Floor - MC 160508

Los Angeles, CA 90095-1605

Tel: 310-206-6544

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Subject: [DCHAS-L] Lab coat selection information?

I'm looking for guidance on lab coat selection. We've always recommended rated FR lab coats for high-fire risk work, 100% cotton for some fire risk work, and poly blend for low risk lab work.

I'd like to post a written guideline for our researchers to follow. After all your help with my initial lab coat laundry survey, I found these 2 items and was wondering if anyone else had written guidance. I have not yet uncovered any official regulatory or consensus documents for lab coat use.

UCLA Lab Coat Policy
http://www..adminpolicies.ucla.edu/app/Default.aspx?&id=905

Yale PPE
http://www.yale.edu/ehs/Documents/lab/pperequirements.pdf


Anything else out there?

Thanks!


Kim Gates Auletta
Lab Safety Specialist
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Stony Brook University
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631-632-3032
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EH&S Web site: http://www.stonybrook.edu/ehs/lab/

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