Guidance
Safe Science: Guide for University Senior Leaders
Safe Science: Guide for University Senior Leaders
- Open access
- Guidance
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- Hazardous SubstancesLeadership and Culture
- Leadership and safety culture
- Laboratory research
- Safety communication
- Education and academic research
- Laboratory
Summary
This pamphlet outlines how senior university leaders can strengthen laboratory safety culture through visible commitment, adequate resources and institutional policies. It recommends aligning research ambitions with safety capacity, recognising safety in faculty advancement, clarifying responsibilities and prioritising safe laboratory design. It also addresses hazardous chemicals beyond chemistry departments and comprehensive risk management.
Classifications: Leadership and safety culture; safety culture; safety leadership.
Classifications: Laboratory research.
Classifications: Safety communication; toolbox talk; toolbox talks.
Classifications: Education and academic research.
Classifications: Laboratory.
Summary
Steps university presidents, chancellors and provosts should take to make laboratory safety a core institutional value.
Themes: hazardous substances, leadership and culture.