To help you get up and move, consider using the telephone less and get up and visit the person you planned to call. Protecting yourself in the workplace is a relatively simple concept. All you have to do is avoid accidents, injuries and expo-sure to hazardous materials. The Environmental Health and Safety Department is here to help you to evaluate your workplace for specific hazards, provide guidance on how to work safely and offer training programs to increase safety awareness. Please help yourself to our services by inviting us in to evaluate your workplace.
Chemicals are present in most of our lab-oratories.
A number of these chemicals can be hazardous to you if you become exposed to them by inhalation , ingestion or contact . Wearing a laboratory coat, goggles, chemical resistant gloves and using a fume hood are the general re-quirements to protect yourself from the hazards of chemicals. However, there are other aspects of chemical safety which are related to the specific hazards of the chem-icals you may be using. We encourage each department to main-tain a file of MSDSs for the chemicals they use. Employees should review these MSDSs regularly so that they know how to handle the chemical safely.