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Extra Credit for Lab Safety Award

On March 17th, a directive came from the Office of Research and campus leadership to ramp down all noncritical campus research activities. They issued multiple fact sheets to assist, and even a sample ramp-down checklist.

How did your lab safely ramp down your activities? How did you secure hazardous materials, such as chemicals and waste? What about equipment, such as hot plates? 

If anyone is working periodically, how are you making sure they are doing so safely? How are you keeping in touch with those who are working alone? What creative ways are you keeping in touch, keeping up morale and furthering your research?

Please share your experiences with us, and they will serve as extra credit for the lab safety awards. The 2020 Lab Safety Awards will be held in October. If your lab undergoes an annual lab safety review, you are automatically enrolled to participate. Each college will have a winning lab that will earn bragging rights for a year and a cash prize. Complete this extra credit tp help your lab win! 

Submit a description, 500 words or less, to labsafetyreview@ucdavis.edu. Submission deadline is June 15.