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What constitutes a laboratory? Princeton laboratory safety programs today and beyond Robin M. Izzo, Director Brandon S. Chance, Chemical Safety Program Manager Environmental Health and Safety Princeton University
Princeton Pro8ile • PopulaDon • 5200 undergraduates • 2700 graduate students • 1200 faculty • 11,500 staff (5500 FTE)
• 14 science and engineering programs • Students from >100 countries • ~185 Principal InvesDgators • ~600 TradiDonal Laboratories • 35 Nobel Laureates
Lab Safety @ Princeton • 6 staff dedicated to Laboratory Safety • 2 focus on biosafety, one on radiaDon safety • 2 are chemists, 2 physicists, 1 biologist, 1 industrial hygiene/ public health
• 14 Chemical Hygiene Officers • One per science/engineering program • None are EHS staff
• 3 faculty • 8 technical staff • 1 safety professional • 2 administraDve staff
• Department safety commiZees
Princeton Reporting Structure
President
ExecuDve VP
Director EHS
Provost
4
Principal Inves.gator
Department Chair
Dean of School
Dean for Research or Dean of the Faculty
Lab Safety @ Princeton • 3 hour in-‐person training by EHS • All faculty, staff, students and visitors working or studying in research labs (including undergraduates)
• Prior training elsewhere does not count • Includes how to do risk assessment • 98% aZendance compliance
• Lab Supervisor Briefing • Mandatory for all PIs • Focus on sod skills, managing safety in the lab
• Modular training • Working with pyrophoric and reacDve materials • Working with hazardous gases • Working with nanomaterials • Various biosafety and radiaDon safety topics
• Lab-‐specific training
Safety and Health Information and Equipment in Labs Database
EffecDng change at a university is like trying to move a graveyard – you never know how many friends the dead
have unDl you try to move them!
What is a lab?
What is a lab?
Architecture – RoboDcs
Art -‐ Lithography
Environmental Engineering – Field research
Geosciences -‐ Drones
Science-‐like… • Art • Lithography • Photography • Ceramics • Sculpture
• Architecture • Laser cuing • RoboDc arm
• Maker Spaces • 3-‐D printers
Lab Standard Apply? • Lab scale use of chemicals • Environment similar to research or teaching lab • Physical hazards • Princeton treats these areas as laboratories • Training program based on lab safety training
• For Visual Arts students, faculty and staff • For Architecture students, faculty and staff • For Maker Spaces
• RouDne surveys and inspecDons • InformaDon on EHS website • WriZen plans describing program elements, like a chemical hygiene plan
Engineering • IncorporaDng project management and process safety management skills for all engineering majors • 3 year pilot program • Not only improved safety, but increased success rate by 95%
Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Sensors Cameras Cargo
Off the shelf Customized Designed and built in lab
Illustra.ve Uses of UAS at Princeton ! Senior thesis projects
! Design and build fixed-‐wing experimental aircrad as component of undergraduate thesis research. E.g., develop low-‐cost solar powered airplane. Short project lifecycles with test flights at regional model aircrad facility.
! Off-‐the-‐shelf UAS fiZed with custom sensor deployed over specific landscape or terrain. E.g., measure methane emissions over natural gas compressor staDon in Texas. Short project lifecycles with test flights in locaDons suitable to research problem.
! Faculty-‐led research projects ! Off-‐the-‐shelf UAS fiZed with custom sensor deployed over specific landscape or
structure. E.g., energy efficiency of buildings. Longer project Dmelines, with test flights in locaDons suitable to research problem.
! Undergraduate Course ! Off-‐the-‐shelf UAS with camera/sensors to conduct landscape surveillance. Educate
students in research methods of study design, data gathering, and data analysis. MicroUAS; alDtude between 200 -‐1000d. Course planned for Spring of AY2017.
! AdministraDve projects ! CommunicaDons (and potenDally others) use off-‐the-‐shelf UAVs for aerial photography.
Sec.on 333 exemp.ons
No.ce of Proposed Rulemaking
Device sUAS sUAS microUAS subclassificaDon**
Weight <55 lbs <55 lbs <4.4 lbs, frangible material
Visual visual line-‐of-‐sight • visual line-‐of-‐sight • weather minimum
visibility requirements
• visual line-‐of-‐sight, • <1,500 d from operator • weather minimum
visibility requirements
Time of Opera.on
daylight daylight daylight
Maximum airspeed
100 mph 100 mph 35 mph
Maximum al.tude
200/400 feet above ground level
500 feet above ground level 400 feet above ground level
Airspace • 500 d from non-‐parDcipaDng structures/persons
• conducted over private or controlled-‐access property
• may not operate over other persons
• air traffic control permission needed in some circumstances
• may operate over persons
• >5 miles from airports
Opera.onal Limita.ons
Sec.on 333 exemp.ons
No.ce of Proposed Rulemaking
Device sUAS sUAS microUAS subclassificaDon
Operators • pilot cerDficaDon with current medical cerDficate
• visual observer • minimum 18 years old
• UAS operator cerDficate • minimum 17 years old • pass an iniDal aeronauDcal
knowledge test and recurrent test every 24 months at an FAA-‐approved knowledge tesDng center
• UAS operator cerDficate with microUAS raDng
• no knowledge test, statement of familiarizaDon with knowledge test areas
Vehicle Registra.on
yes operaDons manual
yes renewed every 3 years
yes renewed every 3 years
Cer.fica.ons and Registra.ons
Field Research
Geosciences projects 2015
Some issues with 8ield research • Tracking people • Checking in from remote areas • Local laws, cultures, expectaDons • Local condiDons • Unusual safety issues • Diving, tree climbing, animals
• Chemical and biological materials storage and use • Chemical waste management • Shipping hazardous materials and samples, export controls • First aid and medical issues • Travel and security
Field Research • Database • Tracking devices • CommunicaDon devices • Shipping program • Training program • Outdoor AcDon – wilderness survival and first aid
• Medical surveillance and travel medicine • University credit cards with cash withdrawal capabiliDes
Travel Registration: Princeton
Travel Registration: State Dep’t
SOS Coverage
Communications
Big Challenge
Help to facilitate this…
And this…
And this…
Questions?
At Princeton… • LeZer from President to all PIs. • Partnering with Dean for Research • Mentor program for PIs focusing on lab management and safety
• DemonstraDng commitment to safety • Partnering for Dean of the Faculty • Safety management in performance appraisals • Safety record part of decision for advancement and tenure
Princeton Lab Safety Training • TradiDonal lab safety topics • Safety Culture • Case studies • Split into groups • Conduct hazard assessment • Discuss how to proceed safely • Talk about process when things go wrong
• Discuss why people choose not to work safely
Example • Your PI gives you a paper and asks you to repeat the study. You’ve never worked with some of the chemicals and have not conducted some of these techniques. • What do you do to prepare? • Your research suggests that you need engineering controls and protecDve equipment that are not available in your lab. What do you do?
• Your PI doesn’t have funding for this equipment, but encourages you to do the experiment.
Examples • You believe that someone in your lab is not working safely, puing themselves and you at risk. • What do you do? • Why do you think they funcDon this way? • You talk to the workers and they say that this is the way they’ve always done it and refuse to change. What do you do?
• You talk to your PI and the PI is unconcerned, but you are uncomfortable. What do you do?