With the start of the government campaign “Working Safely with Hazardous Substances”, widespread attention is being drawn to a subject that is also of major importance within laboratories. The seminar will be held at WoTS on Tuesday morning, October 2 Safety in the Lab on the program. During this seminar, speakers from, among others, DSM Resins & Functional Materials, TNO, Iris Advies and ISense it will discuss healthy and safe working. For example, Wim Grisnich from DSM talks about the development of a Safe Working Method for working with hazardous substances in the lab.
Laboratories are obliged to carry out a risk assessment of every substance and every action involving that substance. A seemingly impossible task, given the enormous variety of substances in laboratories. Fortunately, the legislator offers three options to approach this more pragmatically. Two of these are generally known and applied, namely estimation (e.g. with Stoffenmanager) and measurement, but practice shows that even with this approach it is sometimes virtually impossible to assess everything. Yet there is a third option that is actually the simplest and which is complete, but is hardly applied and that is the Safe Method. Due to its simplicity, this ensures that you can focus most of your energy on risk management and as little as possible on paperwork. In this lecture explains Wim Grisnich explains what a Safe Working Method is and how you as an organization or industry can achieve a validated Safe Working Method. This is done on the basis of a current case.
Iris of 't Leven, Iris Advies discusses ISO 45001 as a source of inspiration for healthy and safe working. ISO 45001 offers a tool for implementing occupational health and safety legislation in a structured manner and, above all, proactively looking at opportunities to further improve working conditions. The standard has a double plan-do-check-act cycle at the strategic level (are we doing the right things) and at the operational level (are we doing things right). Important spearheads of the new ISO 45001 are focusing on the most important risks, involving employees, employee awareness and clear, understandable communication.
Risk Inventory and Evaluation Instrument
Fenelab, together with SME, has drawn up a Risk Inventory and Evaluation (RI&E) instrument, specifically for working in laboratories. In laboratories, highly trained employees work with hazardous substances, biological agents and a lot of high-tech equipment with specific risks. Most RI&E instruments consider these risks too specific and complicated. LabRisk is specifically intended for these situations. The digital instrument involves employees and managers in the implementation of the RI&E and in solving the action points. The instrument thus increases support for occupational health and safety policy. Remco Visser from TNO tells you all the ins and outs.
During this seminar it will become clear why it is so important to work safely in the laboratory and what risks you may encounter. You can find the entire program on the website find.
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