MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs
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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• UBC Policy 7
• Safe environment for all university activities
• Take all possible preventive measures to
  eliminate
• injuries
• occupational diseases

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• Policy 7 continued.
• Supervisors
• Includes faculty, TAs and staff
• Anyone acting in a supervisory capacity (formal
  or informal)
• Formulate safety rules
• Enforce safety rules
• Provide adequate training
• Inspect for hazards
• Promptly correct unsafe work practices
• Responsive to expressed safety concerns
• Report accidents/incidents

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• Policy 7 continued.
• Undergraduate Students
• Follow safety rules, procedures
• Be safety conscious
• Consider the hazards associated with
• lab and other work!
• Consider the measures taken to
• minimize hazards!
• Report accidents, injury, unsafe conditions
• Use (and use properly) PPE

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• Basic standards in labs that must be followed by
• Students
• Instructors
• Teaching assistants
• Visitors

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• 1. Safety glasses
• Worn at all times in all labs
• Suitable type
• Provided by department
• 2. Labcoats
• Worn at all times in all labs
• Purchased by student

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs
3. No food or drink in labs 4. No open-toed
shoes 5. No Bare legs 6. Long hair must be tied
back 7. No earphones in use
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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• 8. Develop lab-specific rules and procedures
• Gloves chemical
• Gloves heat/cold
• Impact/high force
• Other

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MTRL Safety Procedures for Undergrad Labs

• Compliance
• Inform students during first class meeting
• Send out e-mails (Web CT)
• Post rules in lab/on lab doors, as appropriate
• Present specific rules as required in class
• List safety rules in the lab handouts
• Enforcement
• Spare safety glasses/labcoats can be provided (at
  supervisor discretion)
• Failure to comply dismiss from lab period
• Marks penalty

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MTRL Safety Rules for Undergrad Labs

• Safety glasses worn at all times in lab areas
• Labcoats worn at all times in lab areas
• No food or drink in labs
• No open-toed shoes
• No bare legs
• Long hair must be tied back
• No earphones in use