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[meanfreepath]

Should you ever need safety label signs, a nice collection is available online from the University of North Carolina:

http://ehs.unc.edu/labels/

Our lab was faulted for not having a "No Food Storage" sign on the chemical fridge (not that anyone had food there in the first place), but now that's fixed. (I sort of needed a break after reading stuff all afternoon...)

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[blaketh.livejournal.com]

Aargh! I hope Harvard students know enough either not to keep food in the chemical fridge or to understand the horrible risks they take by doing so.

[sildra.livejournal.com]

When our safety inspectors came through, we got faulted for all the power strips, which is insane. First of all, they were all surge protectors, which a lot of our equipment needs. Second of all, none of them were on the floor. Third, if they want us to not have power strips, as my advisor said, then they can contribute the $50,000 to put more outlets in the lab--when we were renovating, one of the first things we had to slash was number of power outlets due to excessive costs.

It was all a very frustrating experience. Of their 150-or-so item checklist, they found maybe two or three things in our lab that were of anything ressembling legitimate concern. There were about five things where everyone who's there all the time knows where the proper thing is but my advisor doesn't, so when they visited at 8:30 am (without telling us when, only what day, they'd be coming) none of us were there and he wasn't able to find the things (for example, the list of everyone's home/cell phone numbers is prominently displayed on one wall at the entrance to the lab... they expected it to be on the inside door, and my advisor didn't know where it was, so we got docked for not having one). And then there were another five things that were stupid/irrelevant/unfixable.

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

Where I taught, we used to get written up for having wire coathangers (could get stuck in outlets and cause electrocution), not having trash bags hung up in the shared closets between different kids' clothing ("how will the children know who's clothes are who's?" and keeping knives in the kitchen drawers and detergent in the laundry room.

There was also the year we were written up (not for safety) for not teaching "life skills."

Oh, and the fire dept said our hot water was too hot and the health department said it was too cold.