<p>In the botany lab where my D works, there are university-wide required safety courses, some that you have to attend in person and others that you take online. However, there don’t seem to be any consequences if the employee doesn’t follow through. There are also university-wide requirements for lab attire, which, again, aren’t enforced. I think the professor in charge of my D’s lab should be doing the enforcing, but it doesn’t happen.</p>
<p>As far as what I can find out from my D, the employee is responsible for laundering his/her own lab coat. I think that should be done by the university, since it would make for much better compliance. They should make it really easy for employees to walk in every day, grab a clean coat, use it and then put it in the dirty laundry bin at the end of the day. As it is, few people in her lab wear them. Safety isn’t taken too seriously.</p>