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Subject: Re: Article from Chemical and Engineering - very complete
Date: Aug 3, 2009 22:09 UTC
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From: ACTSNYC**At_Symbol_Here**cs.com Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Lab Notebooks with risk assessment page Date: August 3, 2009 5:58:10 PM EDT (CA) >The end result for academic chemistry research in the U.K. was that risk assessments have become an integral part of experiments. The assessments don=92t apply just to chemical reactions but also to equipment such as lasers. I love this British regulation. Its been a part of their system for more than a decade that I know of. It requires a risk assessment for every potentially hazardous procedure--even in theater and art. Even more important, the person deciding to do this procedure has to sign the risk assessment. People really think before they do stuff like this. Way cool. Wish we had one like it. Monona Rossol