We have a tie for this month’s Lab Safety Spotlight! After the Research Safety team conducted laboratory inspections during the month of July, our team has selected two labs to be recognized.
EHSO would like to recognize the Cooper Lab and the Lonial Lab for the July Lab Safety Spotlight. Congratulations to the members of the Dr. Max Cooper and Dr. Sagar Lonial research groups for embracing a culture of safety. Keep up the great work!
Lonial Lab. L-R: Dr. Yanyan Gu, Doris Powell, Dr. Sagar Lonial (inset)
Cooper Lab. Back Row L-R: Brant Herrin*, Jianxu Li*, Yoichi Sutoh*, Charles Rosenberg*, Vincent Han*; Front Row L-R: Masa Hirano (Associate Professor), Saby Das (Associate Professor), Cuiling Yu*, Max Cooper (Primary Investigator), Adrain Smith*, Katherine Augustus (Lab Manager), Tanya McKitrick*; Not pictured: Jonathan Rast, Ed Cannon, Mary Ballestas, Gerardo Valadez, Crispin Gomez (Secretary). *Indicates former member.
Members of the labs selected for the Lab Safety Spotlight will receive a pizza party sponsored by EHSO.
Thank you to all the labs and team members for being proactive and embracing a culture of safety.
We will continue to feature a selected lab every month.
Ways members of research labs can embrace a culture of safety:
- Maintain your EHSO training up-to-date
- Know the biological or chemical properties or characteristics of the materials that you are using in research
- Use your PPE according to the lab-specific PPE Assessment
- Review the safety and lab-specific SOPs before commencing work
- Clean after you have finished your work
- Know how to respond to and report an incident or accident
