Safety at university laboratories

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<p>Interesting article from today’s Stanford Daily.</p>

<p>[Yale</a> death, PRL fire prompt new machine shop rules | Stanford Daily](<a href=“http://www.stanforddaily.com/2011/04/29/yale-death-prl-fire-prompt-new-machine-shop-rules/]Yale”>Yale death, PRL fire prompt new machine shop rules)</p>

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According to EH&S Associate Vice Provost Larry Gibbs, the change aims to create a common safety standard for machine shops across campus and to increase student accountability.</p>

<p>While all campus machine shops operate under policies that match industry protocol — all of them mandate practices like tying back hair, removing jewelry, wearing closed-toe shoes and never working alone — they don’t have a consistent way of holding students accountable for following these regulations.</p>

<p>“We did a lot of review of what goes in an industry, and what we found is that in the industry if you don’t follow the rules, you no longer have employment,” Gibbs said. “Now, we don’t employ students, but we have to say there’s an accountability expectation that goes along with the use of these tools that have a potential for harming individuals.”

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