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4 Compliance with Safety and Security Rules, Programs, and Policies
4 Compliance with Safety and Security Rules, Programs, and Policies
Pages 61-68
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This chapter recommends a system for addressing the barriers to and fostering compliance with good laboratory safety and security practices. COMPONENTS OF A gOOD COMPLIANCE SYSTEM The major components of a compliance system are regular inspections, reporting, incident investigation, follow-up, enforcement, and recognition and reward.
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Complex hierarchical systems in developing countries sometimes suppress individual responsibility. An organizational support system and a fundamental change in the behavior of individuals are essential to enable effective reporting of accidents, incidents, and lapses.
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Such laboratory incidents as sink fires, chemical-hood fires, chemical spills, waste disposal accidents, and safety shower activations need to be reported to a CSO and the laboratory supervisor. They should not be considered trivial even if there is no immediate consequence, such as a call to a fire department or a trip to a hospital emergency room.
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Anonymous filing of incident reports should be considered. There should be a secure place, a designated third party, or a Web site for filing reports of incidents, so that people who are reporting questionable safety actions are assured of confidentiality.
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Setting Organizational Safety Rules, Policies, and Implementation Strategy Good compliance requires clear rules, policies, and processes that have been agreed on by organizational leaders, safety and security officers, and laboratory managers. It is also critical for compliance and administration that key stakeholders in the organization also agree to a clear, direct strategy for implementing rules.
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No one should be allowed to work in chemical laboratories without adequate training in laboratory standard operating procedures. Laboratory personnel should be comfortable asking safety and security officers for expert advice on what to do, before they proceed with risky actions.
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Taking Special Safety Precautions for Women Women require additional safety measures to protect their reproductive health. For example, certain chemicals are reproductive toxins that women should not handle.
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They should have ready access to proper clothing for the laboratory such as lab coats and gloves even if they prefer to wear traditional clothing outside. Feelings and traditional standards of propriety may discourage persons, particularly women, who have been splashed with caustic chemicals or other hazardous materials in the laboratory from immediately removing contaminated clothing to reduce chemical burns and from going to and using emergency safety showers properly.
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