Open AccessIncorporating Identity Safety into the Laboratory Safety Culture
Author(s) -
Ann C. Kimble-Hill
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of chemical health and safety/journal of chemical health and safety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1878-0504
pISSN - 1871-5532
DOI - 10.1021/acs.chas.0c00109
Subject(s) - laboratory safety , identity (music) , signage , safety culture , flammable liquid , work (physics) , interpersonal communication , engineering ethics , workplace safety , occupational safety and health , psychology , engineering , business , social psychology , medicine , management , mechanical engineering , physics , advertising , acoustics , economics , nuclear medicine , waste management , pathology
Chemistry practitioners, particularly in educational settings, often associate building strong safety cultures with compliance or regulatory requirements around laboratory glass-ware, equipment, flammable and incompatible materials, signage, container labels, and safety data sheets. Other fields of science also emphasize biohazardous materials, animal handling, human subject, and ergonomics. However, little attention in the literature has gone toward describing the interpersonal interactions and behaviors affecting the physical and emotional safety and wellbeing of laboratory trainees and personnel from marginalized backgrounds. This work unifies known approaches of building strong safety cultures and principles for preventing identity cues that threaten safety within a laboratory environment. Specifically, this work uses the four principles of chemical safety RAMP model as a conceptual framework for integrating identity safety within the laboratory safety culture.