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From: Y. X. <roselle.oneil**At_Symbol_Here**gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] PPE Excuses for Non-Compliance
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2020 11:31:07 -0400
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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Pauline,
While it's been several years since I worked in a lab, I had serious depth-perception problems when wearing safety goggles over my prescription glasses. I had to tap whatever was in my hand against the edge of the 'target' to determine if the item was in front of, behind, or (rarely) on target. I couldn't place anything without testing for the correct location. It was irritating and it slowed me down.
Perhaps you can make an argument about the relative merits of 'irritation' and 'safety' - I'm old enough to remember when people absolutely refused to wear seat belts because they were inconvenient. Nowadays, most people accept the inconvenience as a fair exchange for safety.
My two cents,
Roselle O'Neil
Hi All
As a part of new COVID19 safety policies rolling out at the Broad Institute, we've also decided to actually enforce our PPE policy of wearing a lab coat and safety glasses when working in a lab. Part of the fall out are a lot of excuses that we're hearing from researchers on why they're not complying.
I was hoping that you all could help me brainstorm additional excuses that you all have heard from students, researchers about why they aren't wearing the appropriate PPE.
I want to be ready with responses to each of these excuses. So I thank you in advance for your time with this.
Kind regards,
Pauline Serrano
The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard
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