The Health, Safety and Environment Department (HSE), in collaboration with the Lab Management Safety Committee, is pleased to announce the inaugural Laboratory Safety Recognition Award. The objective of the Laboratory Safety Recognition Award is to foster a culture that values research safety, promotes safe behaviors and creates a safe research workplace.
There are two categories for the Laboratory Safety Recognition Award: the Team Award and the Individual Award.
Team Award
This award will recognize laboratory teams’ safety efforts to establish, improve and/or maintain recognized safety practices within their laboratories throughout the year. HSE and the Lab Management Safety Committee will select the winner of Team Award, taking into consideration proven lab activities related to:
• Historical lab safety performance;
• General improvements in lab safety;
• HSE training compliance and;
• Exceptional safety practices.
Individual Award
This award will acknowledge and reward outstanding individual(s) for their contributions helping to promote a stronger safety culture in the laboratory environment throughout the year. The award is open to employees, postdoctoral fellows, students, staff and PTSA employees working in a laboratory.
The lab safety individual recognition award is a nomination system. Please participate by nominating laboratory member(s) that meet the following criteria:
• Initiates and/or lead a successful safety initiative;
• Regularly reports unsafe working laboratory conditions and works to correct them;
• Promotes safe behavior and a safe working environment inside the laboratory;
• Leads changes in procedures, training or other administrative controls that help improve safety within the laboratory;
• Engages lab members in creating a safety culture within the lab.
Nominations for the Individual Awards will be accepted until November 24, 2016.
For more information about Laboratory Safety Recognition Award and to submit Individual Award nominations, please visit: the Lab Safety Recognition Awards webpage.