LABSAFETY-L Archive 9801 January 1998

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 06:55:01 EST
From: Jim Kaufman <Labsafe@AOL.COM>
Subject: Welcome
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Welcome to the LABSAFETY list.

Participation in this list is a membership benefit of both The Laboratory Safety Workshop and The National Association of Chemical Hygiene Officers.

This discussion list is a forum for conversation about lab safety/CHP/CHO issues. And, its the virtual meeting place for the growth and development of the new organization. 

This is the exciting beginning. To stimulate the conversation and to get to know each other better, it would be helpful if new members would introduce themselves and share their concerns, questions, and ideas about lab safety and the organization itself.

Welcome to NACHO. ... jak

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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 08:21:41 -0700
From: John DeLaHunt <jdelahunt@CC.COLORADO.EDU
Subject: Re: Welcome

>Welcome to the LABSAFETY list.

Thanks.

>This is the exciting beginning. To stimulate the conversation
>and to get to know each other better, it would be helpful if new
>members would introduce themselves and share their concerns,
>questions, and ideas about lab safety and the organization itself.
 

I'm John DeLaHunt, Colorado College Chemistry alum (class of 1987) and currently EH&S manager for the same Colorado College (I tell people I'm working here until I get my money back, but now that I've been here ten years, I probably have...), and my duties include hazardous waste management, occupational safety program development, facility risk management, fire code analysis, disaster mangementment and recovery planning, chemical emergency response, radiation safety and fire department hazmat interface. Since I'm the "regulatory" guy on compus, I'm the Radiation Safety Officer, the Chemical Hygiene Officer, and I will be the Environmental Management Officer when/if the revision to RCRA for lab hazardous waste comes along.

I've been on email lists since about 1992, starting with SAFETY and radsafe (the latter of which I dropped because it was getting to be too much like AM talk radio), and I now own and operate HAZMAT-L (hazardous materials management), SCEHS-L (small college health & safety management), CAARL-L (Colorado Assoc of Academic and Research Labs) and RMEHS-L (Rocky Mountain EH&S).

For reference, Colorado College is a private, liberal arts college with 1,950 students, 160 faculty, 475 (or so) staff, about 35 natural sciences faculty, 1.5 million square feet, labs (per 1450) in chem, bio, geo, environmental science, psychology, EH&S and the health center. Many of those (bio, geo, psych and health center) may be better covered under 1910.1200, since they aren't using chemicals as the ends _and_ the means, just the means. This is a debate I will broach with the faculty from these departments once we have the chemists tracking.

My central issue with lab safety at Colorado College is getting the Chemistry faculty to agree that it's an idea of merit, and one that they should change behavior over. Once we get buy-in from the Chem faculty, we can set to really implementing 1910.1450 in spirit, as opposed to in letter, and then applying that implementation to our other assorted labs.

 And I'm looking forward to the discussion here.

John
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Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 23:44:42 EST
From: Jim Kaufman <Labsafe@AOL.COM>
Subject: How to Convince?
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In a message dated 98-01-30 10:38:54 EST, John wrote:

<< My central issue with lab safety at Colorado College is getting the Chemistry faculty to agree that it's an idea of merit, and one that they should change behavior over. >>

This is without a doubt the big one. How to convince. I'm working on a list of 101 ways to convince people you are serious about lab safety (and, that it is important). 

Any suggestions?

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Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 04:48:00 EST
From: Jim Kaufman <Labsafe@AOL.COM>
Subject: Welcome
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Welcome to the LABSAFETY list.

Participation in this list is a membership benefit of both The Laboratory Safety Workshop and The National Association

of Chemical Hygiene Officers.  This discussion list is a forum for conversation about lab safety/CHP/CHO issues. And, its the virtual meeting place for the growth and development of the new organization.

This is the exciting beginning. To stimulate the conversation and to get to know each other better, it would be helpful if new members would introduce themselves and share their concerns, questions, and ideas about lab safety and the organization itself.  Welcome to NACHO. ... jak