PI Responsibilities
The PI is responsible for ensuring that all laboratory personnel, including part-time students and visiting scientists, are properly trained and informed of the safety regulations, as required by the University's Health and Safety policy and by various government regulatory agencies.
The goal of the program is to inform and prepare you to train your own lab staff. We are aware of the increasing number of new chemicals, equipment, and procedures being introduced in the research workplace. This, coupled with the most stringent environmental regulations in effect in our county and state, has necessitated a health and safety training program for the PIs at the School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences.
In a laboratory research environment personnel, are being exposed to increasing variety of workplace hazards. The need for training the Lab staff, therefore, is imminent, and the PI is the best qualified person to train them for two significant reasons:
- The PI is the most knowledgeable person on the hazards and occupational risks in his/her laboratory and, therefore, the precise health and safety training needs of the employees.
- The PI being the management's direct contact with the employees, has the added responsibility of demonstrating to the employees that the management is serious in its stated policy and in its commitment to regulatory compliance in providing employees with a safe work environment.
The Stanford Safety Manual is your training and reference resource. It is another means to achieving our common goal: A safe and healthy work environment.
