Safety Trainings Documentation
Comment - Nowadays, lab managers should make sure undergrads have participated in frontal safety trainings and/or safety coursewares.
Answer - This is a great idea that the Safety Unit will begin to implement. Safety will initiate a project of which the purpose will be that every undergrad will have to complete a preliminary safety training before entering a "wet" lab. The online course will equal zero creditpoints and will be available in several safety categories, such as chemical safety, biosafety, laser safety, etc.
New Equipment on Campus
Comment - Dangerous equipment enters labs in the absence of professional guidance as to how to safely operate it.
Answer - Purchasing notifies the Safety Unit regarding every safety equipment arriving on campus. To make sure the equipment arrives with all the relevant verifications of both statutory regulations as well as the manufacturer's instructions.
Laboratory Safety Trainings
Comment - All research lab members must go through several trainings and coursewares. The number of trainings can get to as much as 40 different coursewares. As a lab manager, it's extremely difficult to monitor this traffic.
Answer - The Safety Unit is in the final stages of developing an online app for both mobile as well as PC, called SAFEBOOK. This app will encompass the lab safety file and will include all safety training documentation.
Campus Events
Comment - On each campus event the organizer is required to receive guidelines from both the Security and Emergency Unit and the Safety Unit. This process, entailing several stakeholders, is very cumbersome, thereby it doesn't always end on time before one can prepare oneself accordingly to the event in terms of all the guidelines the event's organizer must adhere to.
Answer - Precisely because of this comment both the Safety and the Security and Emergency Units have cooperatively devised an Event Form. In this form the organizer must specify the event's characteristics and the operational units are obliged to reply and send relevant safety and ushers' number guidelines in a matter of numerous days. Attached is the relevant link.