IMPORTANCE OF POLICY

To ensure that all laboratory workers clearly understand their responsibilities.

To provide health and safety information, including "Material Safety Data
Sheets" for hazardous agents used in their laboratory.
To ensure that all containers in their laboratory are appropriately labelled.

Help staff to initiate actions and take responsibility without constant reference to
management.

Teaching and performing science safely.

Watching out for yourself and everyone else in the lab.

Anticipating problems and preventing them.

Being careful and aware of your surroundings.

Learn and follow the guidelines presented in this course.

Reinforce safety principles and practices with other people in your lab.

Provide written safety procedures for activities involving hazardous work in the

laboratory.
Ensure that the appropriate safety equipment.
Provide and enforce the use of appropriate personal protective equipment where there is

the potential for exposure.

To ensure that appropriate warning signs are placed in the laboratory.
To implement and enforce laboratory safety rules for all laboratory worker and visitors.
To provide for and enforce the proper disposal of hazardous wastes.
To report all accidents/incidents to the Health and Well-being Programs and Services
within 24 hrs of occurrence.

Provide technical advice and recommendations to the University community on matters

related to health and safety in the laboratory.

Helping staff to make decisions more efficiently.

Providing instruction on how to do tasks.

Creating confidence and reduce bias in decision-making.

Protecting staff from acting in a manner that might endanger the safety of themselves and
others.

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