Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2009 16:37:45 -0700
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From: NEAL LANGERMAN <neal**At_Symbol_Here**CHEMICAL-SAFETY.COM>
Organization: ADVANCED CHEMICAL SAFETY
Subject: Serious Lab Incidents
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This is
being
cross-posted to SAFETY and CHAS.
I am
assisting Jyllian
Kemsley, a reporter with Chemical and Engineering News on gathering
information
related to serious lab incidents; those in which one or more injuries or
significant property damage resulted. This is a direct outgrowth
of her investigations of the UCLA fatality in January.
I am
confident that many of you have read her reports in C&EN. The
following questions are laid out to prompt discussion and information
input. While you are certainly invited to post to these LISTS, you
also
can contact Jyllian or me directly (see below).
Here are
some issues for
consideration and comments:
1. Has anyone got
any
statistics on research lab accidents in industry or academia, or
alternative
suggestions for how to benchmark an individual or lab group safety
record?
2. Given a
situation similar to
what reportedly happened at UCLA, would anyone be willing to comment on
specifically how a supervisor might have been penalized in
industry?
3. Does anyone know
of a
situation in which a faculty member was sanctioned as a result of a lab
safety
incident?
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