CONFESSIONS OF A LABORATORY SAFETY OFFICER

Course overview

Today, laboratories must meet such a long list of safety regulations and surely, the expert regulators must have thought of everything. Image this. We comply with the rules, keep a good MSDS file, attend annual safety training and we will have a safe workplace. OK, now you can really think. Bad things - really bad things- sometime happen to laboratorians in spite of all the rules and the training. It is said that the devil is in the details, and this eCourse presents a first-person view of numerous case studies where small details in preparation drastically influenced safety outcomes. By sharing the experience of nearly twenty years as a lab safety officer in a large urban hospital, the author of this eCourse shares stories of successes and failures that leave us with a set of lessons-learned.