December 6, 2021
2021 Laboratory Safety Awards & Innovations Event
2021 Laboratory Safety Awards & Innovations Event
You are invited to attend EH&S’s biannual 2021 Laboratory Safety Awards & Innovations Event to celebrate the work being done to enhance the culture of safety on UW’s campuses. This virtual event will take place online on December 15 at 1pm.
Please register in advance: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_cQnrsnCsTp2VmSqxD1iOvw
Guest speakers will include Provost Mark Richards, Stephanie Harrington from the College of the Environment, Kelsie Abrams and Katherine Anderson from the Burke Museum laboratories, and Zackary Herbst from the Chemistry department. There will be presentations on tools and best practices created and put into effect to improve the culture of safety in laboratory spaces, including innovations devised by researchers from UW’s campuses over the past year.
Awards will be given to labs, departments, and personnel in recognition of their achievements in safety culture.
This year’s award winners for Top Dawgs in Safety are:
Burke Museum
Department of Pharmacy
Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound
Department of Emergency Medicine
Department of Allergy & Infectious Disease
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
This year’s award winners for Pack Leaders in Safety are:
Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, Biological Structure
Wai Pang Chan, Biology
Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences
Warren Ladiges, Comparative Medicine
Rebecca Neumann, Civil & Environmental Engineering
Julie Palumbo, UW Tacoma SIAS
Kenneth Thummel, Pharmaceutics
Douglas Wacker, UW Bothell STEM
This year’s award winners for Partners in Safety are:
Margaret “Peggy” Combs, Friday Harbor Laboratories
Tatyana Galenko, Materials Science & Engineering
Zackary Herbst, Chemistry
Ken Keesler, UW Facilities
Ulysis Rivera, CoMotion
Join the celebration of innovations and progress being made to enhance the culture of safety in laboratory research and teaching spaces and hear about practices that could be useful for your own workspaces.
For additional information, please contact labcheck@uw.edu
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