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Empowering Safe Practices Team (ESPT)
The ESPT (Empowering Safe Practices Team) is led by a group of graduate students who serve as Laboratory Safety Officers (LSOs) from various areas of the Department of Chemistry at Stony Brook University.
Graduate Students:
Faculty/Staff Members:
Karena Chapman (Safety Committee Chair)
Patricia Nolan (Departmental Safety Officer)
April Musano (Director of Laboratories)
How does the ESPT aim to promote safety in the department?
- Increasing awareness of safe practices in the laboratory by posting safety-related flyers throughout the Chemistry building
- Ensuring that LSOs from all labs fully comprehend and are up-to-date on all mandatory training
- “Peer reviews” of each other’s labs, in addition to annual inspections by Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S)
- Involvement with graduate students through hands-on demos
- Participating in an annual department-wide safety day
Contact patricia.nolan.1@stonybrook.edu with questions.