Comment Summary

Provide details on the issues raised above or additional comments on your institution's safety oversight program here:
#	Response Date	Response Text
1	Apr 4, 2010 9:43 AM	after renovations the hoods do not work properly
2	Apr 4, 2010 9:44 AM	In spite of over ten years of repeated request, there is still zero funding from our university for chemical safety and hygiene.
3	Apr 4, 2010 11:29 AM	We have NO written internal directives at this time. We are attempting to meet EPA and OHSA regulations and guideline. We have just completed a chemical inventory. We have had two major stockroom cleanout in the last 5 years; 75-90% of our chemical stock was disposed. Waste management is the current focus. We are in the process of acquiring all MSDS.
4	Apr 4, 2010 1:01 PM	Never had a hygiene plan, despite years of acknowledging the need.
5	Apr 4, 2010 1:23 PM	The University has a Environmental Management/safety division. The Department interacts routinely with this group.
6	Apr 4, 2010 1:32 PM	Our safety committee and chemical hygiene officer are very active and coordinate with the University's office of environmental health and safety.
7	Apr 4, 2010 2:33 PM	We have a safety officer who oversees safety, but individual faculty and staff are responsible for labs they teach. We have developed a culture that stresses lab safety and we enforce safety in all teaching and research labs. The University office of Environmental Health & Safety also carries out unannounced safety checks on labs.
8	Apr 4, 2010 3:00 PM	The University Office of Risk management developed the Chemical Hygiene Plan and conducts the safety inspections. It handles chemical waste storage and removal. The plan was revised to meet the DC Fire Marshal's NAPA requirements.
9	Apr 4, 2010 4:35 PM	The college has a health and safety officer who oversees the laboratory safety protocols.
10	Apr 4, 2010 4:42 PM	We have a campus-wide Hygiene Plan which we augment at the department level. Our campus hygiene officers have been former technical staff members from our department for the past 20 years. There is remarkably good relationship between our department and others on campus in terms of safety.
11	Apr 4, 2010 5:03 PM	We have a University-wide Safety Committee that works with the departmental-level chemical hygiene officer.
12	Apr 4, 2010 5:10 PM	The Chemical Hygiene plan is a university wide document and safety practices are dictated by the university's Environmental Health and Safety office.
13	Apr 4, 2010 5:56 PM	We hold monthly meetings for each lab area (Chemistry teaching, Biology Teaching, Research, and Vocational). Being in very close proximity to Texas Tech, we have been even more vigilant in the past year to monitor safety issues.
14	Apr 4, 2010 6:50 PM	Our Chemical Hygiene Plan is still in the draft stage; it will replace an older safety manual, and like this older version, it applies to the Science Center as a whole, not simply to the Chemistry Department. So the current plan is not really accessible or inaccessible--it isn't officially available yet.
15	Apr 4, 2010 8:58 PM	Safety oversight is very much in the developmental stages at the college and chemical safety has fallen under the auspices of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry since we generate most of the chemical waste. Currently there is a budget line to hire a part-time chemical hygiene officer for the entire campus.
16	Apr 4, 2010 8:59 PM	We have safety workshops that all students, staff and faculty must take before they can work in faculty laboratories or (in the case of faculty and staff) teach a laboratory course. The general chemistry-oriented safety training is taken by everyone. We have additional specialized workshops, involving use of radioisotopes, centrifuges, lasers and the like.
17	Apr 4, 2010 9:04 PM	We have been somewhat lax about this in the past, but several recent incidences on our campus are changing how we operate. We are looking at mandatory safety training for all students in our program in the future.
18	Apr 5, 2010 12:45 AM	I don't think we have any hygiene plan
19	Apr 5, 2010 11:52 AM	Our Chemical Hygiene Plan is readily accessible, but not routinely used.
20	Apr 5, 2010 12:02 PM	My institution has an Office of Chemical and biological laboratory safety and we are subject to independent monthly inspections from them. Each student, faculty member and staff member must undergo an initial and then annual training via a web-based instruction/testing tool.
21	Apr 5, 2010 12:24 PM	Other than for hazardous waste disposal, formal documented inspections for compliance with the chemical hygiene plan do not occur.
22	Apr 5, 2010 12:59 PM	Undergraduate institution; 98% of chemistry is done in formal teaching laboratories.
23	Apr 5, 2010 1:11 PM	There is a long-standing deep respect on the part Chemistry faculty for safety. While it is the department chairperson who enforces safe practices, I hear about concerns from other faculty. Safety is sufficient priority that an instructor was not rehired based on his lack of safety enforcement.
24	Apr 5, 2010 1:46 PM	#3 - Safety information is readily accessible on the Departmental Web page - whether or not it is routinely used is questionable or unknown.
25	Apr 5, 2010 1:50 PM	An important component of chemical laboratory safety is to limit maximum class size in laboratory sections.
26	Apr 5, 2010 2:01 PM	The Chemical Hygiene Plan was made and put on a shelf never to be seen of again. Any updates, inspections, etc. are the responsibility of overburdened individual faculty members.
27	Apr 5, 2010 2:01 PM	The Chemical Hygiene Officer is not a compensated position and there is no safety committee. Thus regular review and revision happens somewhat sporadically. The chemistry department faculty regularly discuss lab safety.
28	Apr 5, 2010 2:18 PM	Were currently putting in place a chemical inventory system.
29	Apr 5, 2010 2:20 PM	We do not have an approved Chemical Hygiene Plan, so it is difficult to answer the questions above.
30	Apr 5, 2010 2:49 PM	considerable changes have occurred after the EPA review by peer-institutions was done a year ago. Solvent storage was improved, and a new solvent/waste storage room was built (just prior to the review). The university purchased an inventory system to keep track of the location of chemicals. All chemicals were color coded to indicate chemical incompatibilities.
31	Apr 5, 2010 2:52 PM	We're in process of developing the Chemical Hygiene Plan and implementing stricter safety procedures.
32	Apr 5, 2010 3:03 PM	We don't really have a chemical hygiene plan set in place. We are in the process of putting one together so some of the questions were left intentionally blank because the answer is "none".
33	Apr 5, 2010 3:15 PM	For question 2...We have two CHPs, one for the biochemistry labs and one for the chemistry labs. Each discusses chemical hazard classes; the biochemistry training also includes sections on biohazards. Individual PIs provide laboratory specific hazard information and hands-on training.
34	Apr 5, 2010 3:21 PM	First, your survey is poorly designed. There are too many questions which refer to 2 events e.g. 3, 4, 6, 8. For most of those questions I would give 1 rating to one part of the questions and a different rating to the other. For example, accidents are consistently reported but they are not consistently reviewed. Also, the administration supports the development of safety rules but does not provide the resources to support the enforement. Sorry, but whoever designed your survey did not do a very good job.
35	Apr 5, 2010 3:32 PM	The chair of the chemical safety committee is our stockroom coordinator.
36	Apr 5, 2010 3:45 PM	Much as i dislike "intrusive" safety inspections, I think this institution probably should be more intentional about such inspections. This should include a published list of things that will be looked for.
37	Apr 5, 2010 4:13 PM	No plan. No leadership. Individual faculty are left to their own devices to ensure safety.
38	Apr 5, 2010 4:33 PM	The university has a lab. safety committee and a compliance office with staff to ensure that safety procedures and policy are followed.
39	Apr 5, 2010 4:44 PM	Our Safety plan covers multiple departments (any that have chemicals, including Visual Arts, and all science departments
40	Apr 5, 2010 4:50 PM	Our university has an Environmental and Safety office that is very pro-active; they schedule at least one inspection per semester of all chemical as well as other science labs. They maintain our fume hoods in good working order oversee chemical waste collection and disposal and are willing to work with us to enhance laboratory safety.
41	Apr 5, 2010 5:51 PM	Our safety plan is written to cover all labs within our division which include CHE, BIO and Clinical Lab Science
42	Apr 5, 2010 6:03 PM	As is typical of nearly all chemistry departments, there is a clear emphasis on safety here. All lab courses have a safety orientation -- more in depth at the first-year level. Campus-wide inspections occur at least once each year and departmental inspections are more often. In saying monthly in item 7, that is an oversimplification of the actual case.
43	Apr 5, 2010 6:12 PM	The Chemical Hygiene officer reports not to the department, but the higher administration on matters of safety. However, communication about and enforcement of the hygiene plan is not as routine as it could be.
44	Apr 5, 2010 6:34 PM	Hygiene Office covers entire campus, thus department sees to the little day-to-day things while the hygiene office tends to look at the big and the systematic things
45	Apr 5, 2010 7:53 PM	Chemical Hygiene Plan is written by University chemical safety officer, not dept safety officer. It is a university document.
46	Apr 5, 2010 8:05 PM	The University Senate has a committee on Environmental Safety that assists the Chemical Hygiene Officer in revising the Plan.
47	Apr 5, 2010 8:18 PM	Chemical Hygiene Officer reports to Campus Safety Committee monthly on issues that have not been resolved immediately. Committee reports to Provost for assistance in resolving recalcitrant issues.
48	Apr 5, 2010 8:19 PM	Laboratory safety inspections often happen multiple times a semester (i.e. 2-3), but are not at the monthly level. Once per semester is a minimum.
49	Apr 5, 2010 10:41 PM	Our CHP does not provide for an inspection program.
50	Apr 5, 2010 10:57 PM	Our first laboratory in General Chemistry is entirely on safety. Safety is reiterated in all subsequent classes, with attention to the specific hazards in each class. All assistants (most students soph and above and several freshmen) have the assistants handbook with SOP's, safety rules, etc in it. I serve as a safety officer and try to coordinate all of this.
51	Apr 6, 2010 12:56 PM	We are a small school and don't have a "chemical hygiene officer" but our stockroom supervisor/lab coordinator has an MS in chemistry and she generally fulfills these duties.
52	Apr 6, 2010 1:49 PM	The answer to question 7 is "quarterly."
53	Apr 6, 2010 2:51 PM	A Safety Manual, which compliments the formal Chemical Hygiene Plan, is the working safety document for our department.
54	Apr 6, 2010 3:39 PM	The chemistry department is in compliance but we have not been successful in convincing our administration that we need a fulltime chemical hygiene officer
55	Apr 6, 2010 4:06 PM	The progress in safety in the last three years has been very significant at my institution and support by our administration. They have provided whatever funds were needed for various projects from correct contractor disposal of chemicals to laboratory re-design and renovation. One challenge remains in how to motivate certain faculty who have always done things a particular unsafe way or rationalize why they ought to eat in lab etc. Also lab rooms used for lecture provide another category of challenge in cleaning up sufficiently.
56	Apr 6, 2010 4:45 PM	Institutional support is token--we are on our own. No money to hire a real risk assessment person to oversee safety in labs in general. Fortunately we are a small program, so faculty can oversee and control most things, but we are getting larger, and the institition needs to pay more attention.
57	Apr 6, 2010 5:33 PM	I am provided with little support from administration outside of the department for training of myself and staff and also in support of reprimanding those that do not follow the rules. Further, I am solely responsible for the Chemistry and Biology departments and the other departments (physics, environmental studies, art, etc) do not have any safety protocals in place.
58	Apr 6, 2010 11:37 PM	Nothing to add on this.
59	Apr 7, 2010 12:32 PM	We have a laboratory director who with the chair oversees all laboratory procedures. In the evening this position is performed by an evening laboratory supervisor who liases with and reports to the Chair and daytime laboratory director.
60	Apr 7, 2010 1:15 PM	Each faculty meeting has a Safety report in which all accidents are presented and reviewed.
61	Apr 7, 2010 1:42 PM	We do the best we can but there is no specific budget for safety issues.
62	Apr 7, 2010 3:02 PM	We are currently attempting to change the culture of the department from safety conscienceless to safety active.
63	Apr 7, 2010 3:13 PM	We now have a compliance officer/safety officer who knows what he is doing and so we are improving in all areas of safety across the university. We still need an up to date CHP and are working on it.
64	Apr 7, 2010 3:32 PM	Item 6: all accidents are always reported promptly, but a systematic review seldom occurs.
65	Apr 7, 2010 4:35 PM	I do not know if we have a Chemical Hygiene Plan
66	Apr 8, 2010 4:30 PM	The University is only recently working on creating a chemical hygiene plan.
67	Apr 8, 2010 5:16 PM	Little college involvement although "Safety" is run through Physical Plant
68	Apr 8, 2010 8:41 PM	Re: item 6. Accidents are reported but we lack a process of systematic review. Re: institutional oversight. The university's health and safety officer visits our building frequently and is in regular contact with the department chair and safety officer.
69	Apr 8, 2010 9:36 PM	We don't have a specific Chemical Hygene Plan ... we have Safety procedures.
70	Apr 9, 2010 1:27 AM	We almost never have an accident, once maybe every 5 or so years.
71	Apr 10, 2010 12:48 AM	5. Oversight also provided by our Stockroom Manager. 7. Safety inspections are routinely carried out each Friday afternoon when classes are in session.
72	Apr 11, 2010 2:55 PM	The Chemistry Department is moving to its own Chemical Safety Committee (started this last year) but at this particular moment we have individual faculty leading the safety in their lab sections. The College has a Chemical Hygiene Plan (for the entire college) and Chemical Hygiene Officer (for the entire college) and we had little input in the development of that document and position. The Chemistry Department has started doing some work on developing our own CHP (the college CHO is not part of the chemistry department). The administration has previously supported safety improvements and maintenance only slightly.
73	Apr 11, 2010 3:28 PM	Our safety plan is college wide; currently a staff member in the biology department is our chemical hygiene officer. We did not even have a written chemical hygiene plan until 2 years ago.
74	Apr 11, 2010 3:43 PM	We recently changed staffing for the prior chemical hygiene officer and we are in a state of limbo as far as chemical safety. It is currently handled by the chair which is NOT the norm. A new hire will be arriving at the end of April and she will be the new CHO
75	Apr 11, 2010 4:05 PM	We just this year wrote a comprehensive safety plan.
76	Apr 11, 2010 5:03 PM	The main issue with our university safety policy is that it was developed by the campus police organization and did not involve any actual university science faculty so some parts of it do not make sense. This makes compliance difficult, the oversight is pretty lax.
77	Apr 11, 2010 6:10 PM	The academic administration provides no input at all for laboratory safety at this institution; they hold each faculty member both personally and legally responsible for any accident which occurs in a laboratory.
78	Apr 11, 2010 6:18 PM	A chemical hygeine plan exists for the entire college. We have a campus safety officer who is part of the security and safety team. He works with the laboratory technician to ensure that fire codes, etc. are being followed. Laboratory safety is largely the responsibility of individual instructors.
79	Apr 12, 2010 12:12 AM	Safety plan was in disarray when I was hired - there is now a concentrated effort to try to bring safety up to a more reasonable standard.
80	Apr 12, 2010 1:34 AM	An issue is determining on how to penalize those that are not compliant in an academic laboratory in terms of safety and having the administration to enforce those measures.
81	Apr 12, 2010 9:41 AM	The chemical hygiene plan resides with Safety and Security. This department does not share it with faculty or students.
82	Apr 12, 2010 2:00 PM	Our university's EHS conducts the annual laboratory inspections. They also are a great resource on safety related questions throughout the year.
83	Apr 12, 2010 2:36 PM	We are still in the process of getting Chemical Hygiene Plans written, but plan to have them address individual laboratories.
84	Apr 12, 2010 3:08 PM	Readily accessible chain of command through the staff Environmental Health and Safety Office at one end and teaching fellows, faculty, and departmental staff at the other end.
85	Apr 12, 2010 3:10 PM	The dept chair is also the back-up chemical hygiene officer for the campus and chair of the Toxic Substances Committee for the campus.
86	Apr 12, 2010 6:05 PM	None
87	Apr 12, 2010 6:13 PM	7. some things occur monthly - others annually
88	Apr 12, 2010 6:34 PM	The Chemical Hygiene Plan is a university wide document and is available at www.cmu.edu/ehs. There is a university level Laboratory Safety Committee that meets 5 times a year with 1-2 representatives from departments where chemicals are used, with the exception of the fine arts as they are handled by a different mechanism. The committee reviews the CHP annually. Faculty, staff and incoming graduate students are required to participate in training, which makes them aware of the chemical hygiene plan,
89	Apr 12, 2010 7:11 PM	The chemical hygiene plan is supposed to be added to to provide lab-specific and procedure-specific instructions for each research lab by individual faculty. Day to day oversight of safety in research labs is provided by individual faculty. Day to day oversight of safety in teaching labs is provided by the coordinator of the lab and faculty/instructors/grad students teaching in the labs, supported by the stockroom staff. Labs are inspected each semester by the college chemical safety office along with department stockroom staff, and quarterly be each individual faculty.
90	Apr 12, 2010 7:57 PM	Our chemical hygiene officer sees our labs on a daily to weekly basis.
91	Apr 12, 2010 10:10 PM	We have a campus wide Chemical Hygiene plan and a CAmpus safety officer, but daily and regular oversight remains in the department.
92	Apr 13, 2010 10:32 AM	Our safety program has been the department's responsiblity with limited support from a part-time EHS officer. We are in the process of becoming more systematic institutionally and increasing safety training for faculty and students alike.
93	Apr 13, 2010 9:04 PM	We have been requesting a lab manager position for several years, but until a position is approved it falls on individual faculty to be responsible for all aspects of lab preparation, lab safety, and presenting chemical safety to students.
94	Apr 14, 2010 7:46 PM	Need staff to oversee safety program
95	Apr 14, 2010 8:23 PM	The university level safety office provides little guidance and oversight. They inspect laboratories only at our insistence.
96	Apr 14, 2010 8:29 PM	For #2, the Chemical Hygiene plan is written and implemented, etc., by the University-wide Department of Environmental Health Services. Chemistry has a representative on the committee, and overall authority for safety in the chemistry department resides with the Chair.
97	Apr 15, 2010 1:49 PM	The Hygiene Plan is available in each lab, but it is not knnown if it is used.
98	Apr 15, 2010 5:54 PM	question 2: The CHP is readily accessible (in each lab and on the department web page). Its use is no doubt variable and more difficult to assess.
99	Apr 16, 2010 7:06 PM	We have an institutional-level chemical hygiene plan.
100	Apr 17, 2010 6:32 PM	The dean, who also claims to be a lawyer, believes that we do not have to follow any safety regulations because "OSHA doesn't regulate academic institutions." Therefore, we do not have a CHO and are laughed at when we suggest that it is necessary to have one. The current faculty are very safety aware and run what I believe to be the safest department I have ever worked in. However, they do it in isolation and with little to no financial support. There is little support for safety initiatives at the administrative level but the situation is better than it was in the past. We now have indifference in contrast to the open hostility that greeted faculty members who spoke out about safety issues in the past.
101	Apr 18, 2010 1:03 PM	Hygiene plan is accessible in every lab; I don't think it is used (or especially useful). I think accidents are all reported, but would ot know if (minor) ones are not. The administration says it's concerned about safety but (i) provides no funds, and (ii) tells use what's wrong and what we can't do with no help for what we should do. ("you shouldn't have so many chemicals in the labs; no, you can't have a separate storage room because it's not vented; no we can't help with venting").
102	Apr 18, 2010 2:26 PM	We have a college Health and Safety Officer for the college who I have seen in the Chemistry Department 2 times in 6 years. Both times he was giving a tour to the colleges insurance representative.
103	Apr 18, 2010 2:27 PM	EHSO carries out annual safety audits of each lab. In addition, a graduate student is paid to inspect every lab and work with the PIs to correct any safety violations prior to the audit as well as to remedy any problems discovered in the audit.
104	Apr 18, 2010 5:34 PM	We have no written chemical hygiene plan (#2), so it not accessible (#3) nor reviewed (#4).
105	Apr 18, 2010 5:48 PM	Our departmental Chemical Hygiene Plan was approved by vote of our faculty in 1993. A couple of years ago or so, the university unveiled its completely updated Chemical Hygeine Plan that was approved by the Provost. Our department now uses this comprehensive university-wide CHP.
106	Apr 18, 2010 8:20 PM	Our institution has a university safety officer who schedules and implements a visit to every departmental research and instructional laboratory to monitor safety issues once per semester. It is strict. Responsible faculty are given ratings of A,B,C,D,F in the usual academic meaning. All safety violations have a two-week period to be corrected. Failure to comply invokes penalties up to loss of access to a laboratory unless corrections are made.
107	Apr 18, 2010 9:18 PM	We have a chemical hygiene plan on file but it is not a live document that is actively referred to in any way. Rather everyone (faculty) "does what is right in their own eyes". The administration does not want to commit any additional resources to this issue. There is one EH&S supervisor who has responsibility for all EH&S issues on the entire campus (over 7,000 students).
108	Apr 18, 2010 11:05 PM	One of our faculty has gone through the ACS training and is a certified Chemical Hygiene Officer. In addition to providing expertise and leadership to the department and its safety committee, he is also the liaison with the Facilities personnel who deal with hazardous waste, hood inspections, fire hazards, and other general safety issues. We provide all students in research labs with safety training that includes an online quiz that they must pass in order to be allowed to conduct research. Students in laboratory courses are also provided safety training both general (eye washes, shower, etc.) and specific to the course and to experiments that have additional safety needs. For example, all general chemistry reports are written using the Science Writing Heuristic and a section on Safety (including materials and techniques) is required. We take safety very seriously and view training our students to use good safety practice to be an essential part of their professional development.
109	Apr 19, 2010 12:31 PM	The University has a Health and Safety Officer who reports to the Director of Security. We also have contracted with Disposal Consultant Services to oversee our proceedures and to provide mandated training.
110	Apr 19, 2010 2:01 PM	We participate in a program were most of the independent colleges in Wisconsin audit each other.
111	Apr 19, 2010 2:52 PM	Who pays for costs associated with cleanup and wastes
112	Apr 19, 2010 3:25 PM	re: quest. #3--CHP IS readily accessible, but I doubt that anyone but myself ever looks at it.
113	Apr 19, 2010 4:07 PM	OUr store room coordinator (1/2 time Chemistry, 1/2 Biology) oversee most day to day chemical safety issues. Individual faculty are responsible for specfic labs in which they work/teach. Faculty are responsible for instructing students on harrads and handling/disposal of hazzardous materials.
114	Apr 19, 2010 4:27 PM	The Dept Chair ultimately is responsible, but one faculty member has particular responsibility for dept safety issues and also represents us on the campus-wide safety committee.
115	Apr 19, 2010 5:00 PM	We have a small academic department with 8 full time faculty members and one staff technician. All members are responsible for diligence and oversight in maintaining a safe environment in accordance with our department and university safety plan.
116	Apr 19, 2010 5:20 PM	We are presently revising our CHP and have been revising for over one year to meet the needs at our university to maintain safety and continue safety practices.
117	Apr 19, 2010 7:34 PM	Safety inspection are based on the Chemical Hygiene Plan but are more encompassing as well
118	Apr 19, 2010 8:42 PM	Laboratory space is a challenge.
119	Apr 20, 2010 12:46 AM	Our laboratory stockroom is staffed by one superperformer, super chemist who spends most of his time keeping instruments running so students are getting a great hands on laboratory experience. The faculty are in the labs with the students for classes and research. However, another full time professional is desperately needed in the stockroom to keep up with the work involved in setting up and disassembling experiments for about 20 lab sections of students in about 12 different lab courses. Our space was intended for about 1/3 the number of students currently using them. Students sign safety agreements. Faculty review special safety concerns at beginning of each lab. But there is always a gap in information when changes are made with security or housekeeping, etc., until a faculty member hears that something isn't done the way it used to be. Administrators truly do not understand safety and view chemistry as a huge expense.
120	Apr 20, 2010 2:01 PM	The program has all the essential details but requires consistent execution. Faculty and researchers are the key in this regard but remain reluctant to change behaviors inherited or otherwise ingrained. Tenured faculty are the key component here, they are not easily persuaded.
121	Apr 20, 2010 2:56 PM	Currently the status of the safety commitment is very low. Coming from an industrial background, this is a large concern. Efforts are underway to improve the inspection process, review of accidents and to update the chemical hygene plan.
122	Apr 20, 2010 3:56 PM	The Chemical Hygiene Plan is University wide. There is a CHP summary which is more concentrated and applicable available in the Chemistry Department. It is that whoch #s 3 and 4 refer to. I would strongly agree in #3 except I cannot control the degree to which individuals who are given the CHP summary document actually use it. #7 - Safety inspections are intended to be done every 3 - 4 months, though inadequate staffing and other priorities often reduce the degree to which labs are checked. There can be substantial informal inspecting during the course of normal business.
123	Apr 22, 2010 12:13 AM	CHP is campus-wide
124	Apr 23, 2010 8:01 PM	We don't have a full-time stockroom supervisor, and budget reductions caused us to lose a part-time supervisor. Now we must only rely on faculty who also have have very heavy teaching loads.
125	Apr 24, 2010 12:14 AM	CHP has been raised to an institution-wide plan that spans other laboratory and general safety issues (more appropriate to characterisze it as a campus laboratory safety program that includes the requirements of a CHP. Although this institutional laboratory safety/CHP plan has regular sub-component review and changes are made as are needed - there has not been a formal CHP or program-wide review process in a number of years. The Chemistry and Biochemistry department adopts the active institutional plan by default.