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From: "Rogers, Janet" <ROGERS**At_Symbol_Here**EDINBORO.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Lab Coat storage
Date: Thu, 25 May 2017 16:07:55 +0000
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Message-ID: 2E68EA190EA75E4C9399D75B40B634667A2E2563**At_Symbol_Here**EX01.eup.edinboro.edu
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I too am interested in your responses. Our labs are about 5 years old and there were no provisions for lab coat storage. Our EHS officer now wants us to start requiring students
to wear lab coats, store them in lockers (there is no space in the lab rooms for lockers, so they'd have to go in the hallway or in a classroom on a different floor from the lab) and he wants our custodial staff to wash the coats.
We don't like this plan, so I am looking forward to your recommendations.
Janet Rogers, Ph.D.
Professor & Chair
Chemistry Department
Edinboro University
230 Scotland Road
Edinboro, PA 16444
phone: 814.732.1539
e-mail: rogers**At_Symbol_Here**edinboro.edu
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] on behalf of Vivian L. Longacre [vlongacr**At_Symbol_Here**CALPOLY.EDU]
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:18 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Lab Coat storage
Goo morning,
For those campuses that require lab coats in their chemistry laboratories, how are you handling storage? We have wall to wall fume hoods in our upper division organic labs and no place to put lab coats. The Chemistry department has recently instituted
a lab coat policy in upper division labs where the hazards warrant them. We have a brand new beautiful building they are housed in, however no lab coat storage. Upper administration does not want anything put in the hallways. So far, they have come up with
extra large ziploc bags in which to put their lab coats into and store in their glassware drawers.
Any other ideas out there?
Vivian Longacre
Safety Training Specialist, RSO
Environmental Health & Safety
Cal Poly State University
San Luis Obispo, CA
Direct 805.756.6628
vlongacr**At_Symbol_Here**calpoly.edu
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