While all workers in the lab are responsible for contributing to a safe working environment, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires supervisors to play an important role in identifying and avoiding hazards, maintaining a clean and safe lab, training employees, preparing for emergencies, and keeping records. This course will help laboratory supervisors understand the specifics of their role in implementing and demonstrating safe lab procedures. It will help trainees gain a better understanding of their role as a supervisor in implementing and maintaining chemical hygiene and safety in the laboratory
By the end of this course delegates will be able to:
- Describe the supervisors role,
- Identify the appropriate OSHA standardDiscuss key components,
- Identify hazards and how to avoid them, and
- Relay lab safety procedures to others.
- Identify the purpose of the Laboratory Standard;
- Recognize and understand the elements of the Standard
- Identify the actions required to comply with the Standard
- Do your part to comply with the Standard and ensure the safety of all
- Overall responsibility for chemical hygiene and lab safety
- Verification of training and education
- Identification and correction of hazards
- Direct observation of workers
- Correcting unsafe or unwanted behavior
- Direction and instruction of workers
- Response to worker questions & concerns
- Housekeeping and regular inspections
- Material safety data sheets (MSDSs )
- Safe handling techniques
- Maintaining a chemical inventory
- Providing access to safety data sheets (SDS)
- Appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Knowledge of the chemicals in use and relaying that knowledge to your co-workers
- Recordkeeping
- Taking responsibility and getting others to do the same
- Cultivating a culture of safety
- Conducting risk assessment for each lab protocol performed
- Determining the hazards faced in the lab
- Selecting appropriate safety measures
- Engineering controls, PPE, and work practices
- Eliminating and minimizing risks
- Maintaining a safe laboratory environment at all times
- Handling lab emergencies swiftly and effectively
- Exposure to hazardous chemicals during laboratory work
- Following emergency procedures
- Laboratory audit
- Proper disposal of hazardous waste
- Promoting pollution prevention, waste minimization and energy conservation in your lab
- Appropriate evacuation procedures
- OSHA requirements & standards
Lab Managers, Chemical Engineers, Supervisors, Environmental, Health & Safety Personnel & Professionals, Management Personnel who have industrial hygiene responsibilities, Risk Managers, Operations Managers, Line Managers who have been assigned responsibilities of safety management system & in training employees in safety rules, Personnel who are coordinating, supervising, or managing safety and health efforts, Safety Leaders and middle/upper managers.