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The Co-Chairs of the Chemistry Health & Safety Committee are Kalai Saravanamuttu and Leah Allan.

Inspections

Recent Lab Inspection Reports can be found here.

Door sign Template can be found here . Delete the symbols etc. that don't apply to your lab.  Print it in colour and have the main office laminate it for you.

Resources

NOTE: ABB has an OHSA Regulation 1101, 1st Aid Kit supplied by EOHSS. There is one in the Chemistry & Chemical Biology Main Office (ABB 156). You DO NOT need to have a regulation kit in your lab! If you decide to have one, you must ensure a person in your lab is certified with the 2 Day Standard 1st Aid Training. A log and inventory of the kit must be kept by this person and only this person can issue items from the 1st Aid Kit.

Should you decide to have a regulation kit, your 1st Aid Kit should have the following:

First Aid Requirements | Regulation 1101

  1. Every employer employing not more than five workers in any one shift at a place of employment shall provide and maintain at the place of employment a first aid station with a first aid box containing as a minimum,
    1. a current edition of a standard St. John Ambulance First Aid Manual;
    2. 1 card of safety pins; and
    3. dressings consisting of,
      • 12 adhesive dressings individually wrapped,
      • 4 sterile gauze pads, 3 inches square,
      • 2 rolls of gauze bandage, 2 inches wide,
      • 2 field dressings, 4 inches square or 2 four-inch sterile bandage compresses, and
      • 1 triangular bandage.
  2. The employer shall ensure that the first aid station is at all times in the charge of a worker who,
    1. (a) is the holder of a valid St. John Ambulance Emergency First Aid Certifi cate or its equivalent; and
    2. (b) works in the immediate vicinity of the station.