At UCR the Provost chose to establish a ‘departmental responsibility’ for lab audits.
EH&S provides the information, training and software to conduct a lab inspection.
The departments then decide how/who will conduct inspections (and when they are due within 365 days)..
Some departments have assigned this to the Faculty who have reassigned it to their graduate student or post-doc.
Other department have their departmental Chemical Hygiene Officer or other staff member conduct all the audits
The EH&S Audit Specialist reviews the audit results, inspects the reporting completed follow-ups and contacts a random audit here and there.
-Russ
Russell Vernon, Ph.D.
Director
Environmental Health & Safety
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave
Riverside, CA 92521
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From: DCHAS-L Discussion List [mailto:dchas-l**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU]
On Behalf Of Wawzyniecki Jr, Stefan
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2014 7:35 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**MED.CORNELL.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Laboratory Inspections
A few questions asked by our Administration:
1.
What is the frequency of EH&S –led laboratory inspections for those of you in large academic research institutions?
2.
# of EHS staff whose primary role is inspections?
3. Are Individual PI’s or Departments required to inspect their labs? How often?
Thanks,
-Stefan Wawzyniecki, CIH, CHMM
NRCC-CHO
UCONN