CBE leads in safety

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Each year, The Ohio State University's Office of Environmental Health and Safety conducts site visits to all laboratories that work with chemicals or biological materials to assess each lab's facilities, protocols, and the training of personnel regarding its safety practices. Principal Investigators and their staff who pass a site inspection with no noted items of concern are included in the Laboratory Safety Dean's List and are presented with a certificate of achievement to mark the accomplishment.

 

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This year, two groups from the William G. Lowrie Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering won the honor of being selected for the 2019 Laboratory Safety Dean's List - Professor Andre Palmer's Research Laboratory and Professor Umit Ozkan's Heterogeneous Catalysis Research Group. This marks the fourth consecutive year for Ozkan's Group to be selected for the honor.  

Ozkan's lab has made a considerable contribution to improving laboratory safety on the Ohio State campus, with Dr. Ozkan and her students leading efforts to create a culture of safety both within their laboratory and Ohio State's chemical engineering department at large forming the Chemical Hygiene Safety Committee (ChyComm) in 2016. Ozkan's research group was also the first group to receive the inaugural University Laboratory Safety Committee's Excellence in Safety Award in 2017. 

 

Palmer's group has also been a leader in safety, winning the department-wide Outstanding Safety Award for Bioengineering Laboratories from its Chemical Hygiene Safety Committee four years in a row since the awards were first implemented in 2016.

Congratulations, Palmer and Ozkan Groups, and thank you for making The Ohio State University a safe place to work and learn!

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