From: Penny Manisco <pmanisco**At_Symbol_Here**G.HMC.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] checking about hands-on eye wash training
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 12:12:41 -0700
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**PRINCETON.EDU>
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Demystify:
Hi Melinda,
During our summer research, we host a "Safety Day" that includes hands on demos. Use of the eye wash and safety shower is demonstrated at that time. Sometimes a student will want to see what the eye wash feels like. We do use containment as our eye washes and showers drain to floor. "Safety Day" happens about a month after initial safety training. This seems to be just enough passage of time where students need reinforcement.
> >I have heard informally about safety training elsewhere that includes "hands-on" eye wash training, meaning trainee puts eyes in running stream of water.
I have demonstrated the use of safety showers during lab safety trainings using a containment curtain and in the process accidentally demonstrated how wet you can get in the process, but I've never asked a trainee to use the eyewash.
For the purpose you're suggesting, there is a good 2 minute video from the University of California Berkeley at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O95MzSr1rE
that demonstrates live use of an eyewash and would probably make the same point that a live demo would.
- Ralph
Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
Environmental Safety Manager
Keene State College
603 358-2859
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