From: "Kennedy, Sheila" <s1kennedy**At_Symbol_Here**UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Attire in Academic Laboratories
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 17:06:34 +0000
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Thank you !

Sheila Kennedy
Safety Coordinator
CHEM Teaching Labs
UC San Diego


From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU> on behalf of Noce, Tony <000004c54376f45e-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 7:53:07 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Attire in Academic Laboratories
 

I realize that the prevailing view is that dinosaurs roamed the earth when I attended university, but I distinctly remember my primary laboratory instructor comparing our labs to the labs at Dow, Dupont, Merck, and Bayer.

Certainly not in scope, scale, or funding, but in form and function.

Our dress code was the same as that for these industrial chem/pharma labs.

 

"You need to be prepared for what you will face if you work in industry. It is my job to prepare you for that. If you don't like it, I suggest you major in biology."  

 

It seems to me that rather than a dress code for academic laboratories you should be looking for the dress code in industrial labs (handling similar chemicals, of course) and mimicking that.

 

Just a thought…

 

 

 

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From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] On Behalf Of Heather McCollor
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 10:30 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Attire in Academic Laboratories

 

I suggest students get a pair of sweat pants, scrubs or cotton pajama pants.

Heather

 

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Barbara Foster <bfoster**At_Symbol_Here**wvu.edu> wrote:

Safety Colleagues,

Do you permit your students to wear leggings/jeggings in your academic chemistry labs?

If not, have you included a section on this in your safety rules?

Would you be willing to share the wording in your safety rules with me?

I chair the departmental safety committee and I plan to include this topic as an agenda item for the February meeting.

As always, thank you for your assistance.

Barbara

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Heather McCollor
Laboratory Materials Supervisor
Macalester College
1600 Grand Ave
St Paul, MN  55105
651-696-6484

NAOSMM Site Selection Chair Aug 2015-Aug  2017

 

 

 

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