From: Christine Rogers <car**At_Symbol_Here**EHS.UMASS.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Showers, Drains and ADA Compliance
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2018 20:42:57 +0000
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
Message-ID: 1351bcbda5f5401a86aeb60fb7aca71b**At_Symbol_Here**ehs.umass.edu
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I have to put my two cents in here. In addition to all the arguments presented so far, for me, the overriding one is that people are less likely to use a drench shower if there is no drain because they are worried about making a mess. From a SAFETY point of view I am firmly on the side of having drains as it will make it much more likely that the drench shower will be used when it should.

Chris

 

Christine Rogers, PhD CIH
Assistant Director, Academic Safety
Environmental Health & Safety

UMass Amherst
40 Campus Center Way
Draper Hall
Amherst, MA 01003
413-545-5112
car**At_Symbol_Here**ehs.umass.edu

www.ehs.umass.edu

 

 

 

From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety [mailto:DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU] On Behalf Of Suzanne Howard
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2018 10:54 AM
To: DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Safety Showers, Drains and ADA Compliance

 

Hi Melissa,

We are in the process of designing a new science bldg and was told that we can't have drains for the safety showers and the eyewashes.  Our architects state the reason is that the size of the drains would have to be very large.....?  They also indicate that the cost for plumbing is too great.  Have not yet decided if EHS should push for drains or not, or, if it is even possible. 

Suzanne

 

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Suzanne Howard

Director EHS

Wellesley College

300 Central Street

Wellesley, MA

781-283-3882

 

On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 10:21 AM, Melissa Anderson <mwanderson08**At_Symbol_Here**gmail.com> wrote:

Greetings Everyone,

 

We're working with architects right now to plan out chem labs for a new science building. We've asked for drains under the safety showers and were told that wouldn't be possible because in order to be ADA compliant and have drains, the safety showers would take up too much space- has anyone encountered such an argument? 

 

(Note, we're extremely constrained on space due to some very complicated politics I won't go into here, so making the labs bigger is not an option.)

 

Thanks,

Melissa Anderson

Instructor

Pasadena City College

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