141st APHA Annual Meeting and Exposition

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Online Program

5067.0
Frontiers in Laboratory safety

Wednesday, November 6, 2013: 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Oral
This session is an opportunity to hear from several practitioners as to the efforts they are making to improve safety practice and to elucidate the challenges in promoting and implementing safety in academic laboratories that investigate a wide variety of topics and describe strategies to deal with these challenges.
Session Objectives: Define safety culture. Discuss its application and implications for safety practice in laboratory settings. Identify challenges and strategies for dealing with laboratory hazards including biosafety, chemical safety and physical safety.
Moderator:
Miriam Weil, MPH, ScD

8:30am
Safety culture—the backstory   
Peter Reinhardt
     
8:42am
What do we know about laboratory safety culture?   
Ralph Stuart, MS CIH
8:54am
How a PPE compliance program is changing safety culture: Practical steps to making real improvements   
James Gibson, PhD, MPH
     
9:06am
Local regulation of laboratory biosafety in cambridge, Massachusetts   
Sam Lipson, MS, REHS and Susan Woskie, PhD, C.I.H.
     
           
9:18am
Developing a protocol for evaluating formaldehyde exposures in the research spaces of Boston children's hospital   
Michael Grant, M.S. and Howard Brightman, ScD, PE, CIH, CSP
     
9:30am
Hazard assessment in laboratories at MIT   
Michael Labosky, MS, CIH

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Occupational Health and Safety
Endorsed by: Socialist Caucus

CE Credits: Medical (CME), Health Education (CHES), Nursing (CNE), Public Health (CPH) , Masters Certified Health Education Specialist (MCHES)

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