From:
Craig Merlic <merlic**At_Symbol_Here**CHEM.UCLA.EDU>
Subject:
Re: [DCHAS-L] Compensation for Research Group Lab Safety Officers
Date:
Jan 19, 2023 20:37 UTC
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ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
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I have talked with many research faculty over the years and all of them assigned it as one of the group jobs as I do. So then I thought about the possible messaging here. If you gave a graduate student added compensation (not always possible to do) for being the lab safety officer one interpretation is: “this is something important”. However, another possible interpretation is: “this is something onerous and burdensome, so you will get extra compensation”. Hence, I favor no extra compensation and tell my students “this is something we do in a well functioning research group”.
Best,
Craig
Craig A. Merlic
Professor of Chemistry, UCLA Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry
Executive Director, UC Center for Laboratory Safety
From: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU> on behalf of Mark Bachrach <markbachrach2015**At_Symbol_Here**U.NORTHWESTERN.EDU>
Reply-To: ACS Division of Chemical Health and Safety <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 9:44 AM
To: <DCHAS-L**At_Symbol_Here**Princeton.EDU>
Subject: [DCHAS-L] Compensation for Research Group Lab Safety Officers
Good morning,
Do your universities provide additional compensation to grad students/postdocs/technicians who are serving as the lab safety officer/designate/representative for their research group or is it just considered a group job similar to maintaining one of the lab's instruments?
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