Category Archives: Lab Safety

Scenario:  You have been hired as the Human Resource Manager for a company that supplies contract employees to healthcare facilities.  In this position, you also have responsibility for employee safety.  You start investigating what your employer has done previously for … Continue reading

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OSHA issues violation notices OSHA issued a notice of unsafe and unhealthful working conditions to the San Francisco Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center after concluding its investigation into the death of Richard Din, a research associate at the Center’s research … Continue reading

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Monday Cal/OSHA fined UCLA more than $31,000 for three “serious” violations of workplace safety laws in the fatal burning of a staff research assistant. According to Cal/OSHA UCLA was fined $18,000 for the fact that lab assistant wasn’t wearing a … Continue reading

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