Guidance
Safe Science: Guide for Laboratory Researchers
Safe Science: Guide for Laboratory Researchers
- Open access
- Guidance
- Unknown
- Hazardous SubstancesLeadership and Culture
- Leadership and safety cultureLearning from incidentsRisk management
- Laboratory research
- Risk assessmentSafety communication
- Education and academic research
- Laboratory
Summary
This pamphlet outlines researchers’ role in strengthening safety culture in academic laboratories. It recommends experimental hazard analysis recorded in lab notebooks, open safety discussions, participatory inspections and non-punitive reporting of near misses and injuries. It also addresses productivity pressures, lone working, inadequate sleep and seeking support when stress compromises safe work.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Learning from incidents; incident learning; lessons learnt; lessons learned.
Classifications: Risk management; risk evaluation.
Classifications: Laboratory research.
Classifications: Risk assessment; hazard assessment.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Education and academic research.
Classifications: Laboratory.
Summary
Actions laboratory researchers can take to foster a strong safety culture, including hazard analysis, near-miss reporting and open dialogue.
Themes: hazardous substances, leadership and culture.