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Spotlight on Safety
Health and Safety News For The Princeton Community
April 2024
Celebrate Earth Month with EHS! This Wednesday, join us at the Icahn Lab atrium for a fun, informative festival of sustainability.
Special guests will include John Pickering, behavioral scientist and Andlinger Center fellow, Ted Borer of the Energy Plant and Bill Broadhurst of Campus Energy. The talk gets underway at 3:30 p.m.
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Einstein's Begonia
Do you know the story of Einstein's begonia? Its been passed down through cuttings of the original plant since the 1950s, and you can win one at our festival of sustainability!


There will also be cool giveaways at the event, activities and an ice cream reception after the guest speakers.
Campus Partners Help Labs 'Do It For the Hood'
Our featured speaker, John Pickering, has been working on an innovative project with EHS and the Office of Sustainability to realize significant energy and cost savings through better laboratory practices around fume hoods. Learn more in this article from 2022.

2023 Dale Grieb Safety Award Winner
Lauren Taylor, postdoctoral research associate. Photo by Sameer Khan.
Lauren Taylor, a postdoctoral research associate in the Princeton Materials Institute, has been awarded the 2023 Dale Grieb Safety Award by the School of Engineering and Applied Science (SEAS) for her contributions to laboratory and workplace safety.

Featured Video: Being Green
At the Princeton Farmer's Market last week, we asked people to share their ideas for practicing sustainability. Here are a couple of responses.

Bring your ideas to our festival of sustainability! We'll have a whiteboard for you to share your thoughts. Some could lead to concrete campus initiatives through the Green Labs Recognition Program which we are pursuing with the Office of Sustainability.

We also have a virtual idea board for sharing sustainability challenges, program ideas and strategies for engagement. Please participate!
Follow us and watch more videos on the EHS social media accounts.
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EHS Strategic Planning: Help Us Shape Our Future
EHS is in the midst of updating our strategic plan for the next five years, and we would appreciate your input. Here are some of the ways you can provide feedback on what EHS is doing well, could be doing better, should do more of, should do less of, etc.
Our updated, draft mission: We have an unwavering commitment to protect people and the environment, in support of the University’s mission. We foster partnerships with faculty, students, and staff to enable them to recognize risk and empower them to learn, discover, serve, and work safely.
 
Our new draft vision: A future where safety, health, preparedness, and environmental stewardship permeate every aspect of campus life.

  1. Participate in a focus group, in person or via Zoom, where EHS staff will be present for part of the discussion and a facilitator from outside EHS will be present for the rest of the discussion to collect candid feedback that will only be aggregated with all feedback sessions and only attributed to you if you ask to do so. Send an email to Lynne Brown at lb5@princeton.edu to be included in a session.
  2. Provide written, anonymous comments on the EHS Strategic Planning Feedback Idea Board. You may add your own comments or upvote existing entries.
  3. Contact anyone from EHS for a more focused discussion.
 
We look forward to your ideas and constructive feedback.
Upcoming Trainings April - June 2024

Advanced Safety Management
April 17, 9 a.m.-noon. Louis A. Simpson MPR B60B

Fire Extinguisher Training
April 25, 10-11 a.m. 200 Elm Rm. 105

Intro to Biosafety
May 9, 10-11 a.m. Icahn Laboratory Room 200

Bloodborne Pathogens for Researchers
May 9, 11 a.m.-12 p.m. Icahn Laboratory Room 200

Intro to Biosafety
June 5, 2-3 p.m. Icahn Laboratory Room 200

Bloodborne Pathogens for Researchers
June 5, 3-4 p.m. Icahn Laboratory Room 200

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Laboratory Safety at Princeton University (Online)
New researchers to Princeton University should complete the following steps as part of the online Laboratory Safety Training Sequence.

  1. Complete the online components of the laboratory safety training: Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety 1-5 and Final Test, available at: https://putrain.learn.com
  2. After completing the online components, sign up for and attend an instructor-led Laboratory Safety Training session.

Upcoming dates for instructor-led Laboratory Safety Training sessions:

Laboratory Safety at Princeton University
April 26
May 7
May 24

To sign up for a training session, go to:
Select Environmental Health & Safety under "Training By Department"
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