Significant safety related news items are listed below in reverse chronological order.
Date | Item | |
Oct. 21, 2013 | Fall term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Blakemore (co-chair & O-chem rep.), Burrand (LPSC instruct. rep.), Edwards (co-chair & GBAD rep.), Fang (P-chem. rep.), Jones (EH&S, Chemical Hygiene), Loeser (ex. comm. member), Pastorek (ex. comm. member), Remcho (A-chem rep.), Schmidt (grad. rep.), Walker (GBAD/Gilbert instruct. rep.) | |
Sept. 27, 2013 | Fire extinguisher training for new graduate students at EH&S Annex. | |
Hiatus in safety news item reporting | ||
May 16, 2012 | Spring term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Lance Jones (EH&S), Dan Keppinger, Daniel Myles, Whitney Schmidt and Mas Subramanian | |
March 1, 2012 | Winter term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Chong Fang, Daniel Myles, Lance Jones (EH&S), Mas Subramanian. Guests: Todd Stuhr and Bill Tayor | |
November 15, 2011 | Fall term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Chong Fang, Lance Jones (EH&S), Dan Keppinger, Sean Muir | |
November 2, 2011 | Corvallis Fire Department re-inspection. For last report click here. | |
September 20, 2011 | Corvallis Fire Department annual fire safety audit for Gilbert Hall and Gilbert Addition | |
April 12, 2011 | Spring term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Chong Fang, Lance Jones (EH&S), Dan Keppinger, Sean Muir, Daniel Myles, and Mas Subramanian. Invited participants: Christopher Beaudry, David Schiedler. | |
April 6, 2011 | A small glass vessel ruptured during a freeze-pump-thaw solvent degassing procedure causing minor injury to the forearm of the graduate student performing the operation. A new Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) concerning the technique has been added to SafetyWeb (see Guidelines). | |
October 14, 2010 | Corvallis Fire Department re-inspection. For last report click here. | |
October 13, 2010 | A small fire occurred in a research laboratory in the basement of Gilbert Hall around 10:45am. The alarm was activated and the building safely evacuated. The blaze was safely extinguished with the help of Corvallis Fire Department and no one was injured. | |
October 7, 2010 | Fall term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Lance Jones (EH&S), Dan Keppinger, Sean Muir, Daniel Myles and Mas Subramanian. | |
September 24, 2010 | Fire extinguisher training for new graduate students. | |
September 3, 2010 | Corvallis Fire Department annual fire safety audit for Gilbert Hall and Gilbert Addition. | |
March 2, 2010 | Winter term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Dan Keppinger, John Loeser, Daniel Myles, Andrew Smith and Mas Subramanian. | |
September 25, 2009 | Fire extinguisher training for new graduate students. | |
September 3 & 4, 2009 | Corvallis Fire Department annual fire safety audit for Gilbert Hall and Gilbert Addition | |
May 5, 2009 | Spring term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Lance Jones, Tim Rogers, Mas Subramanian. | |
January 26, 2009 | Winter term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Lance Jones, Chris Knutson, Tim Rogers. | |
October 23, 2008 | Corvallis Fire Department re-inspection. For last report click here. | |
October 15, 2008 | Spring term meeting of the Departmental Safety Committee, present: Paul Blakemore, Kristi Edwards, Lance Jones, Chris Knutson, John Loeser, Tim Rogers, Alexey Shvarev, Mas Subramanian | |
September 23 & 26, 2008 | Safety orientation and fire extinguisher training for new graduate students. |
last update: 11/4/13 (PRB)