Wednesday 29th January: Free Laboratory Safety Leadership webinar

BioRAFT have been working closely with the University of Minnesota (UMN) for BioRAFT’s first Laboratory Safety Leadership webinar of 2014.

Excitement is building for this webinar because Bill Tolman, Chair of the Department of Chemistry will be talking in detail about how he and his team of graduate students have launched an innovative program to help improve the culture of safety at UMN. 

Together, they’ve created “Joint Safety Teams” consisting of graduate students and postdoctoral researchers who work in an advisory capacity in parallel to environmental health and safety. Their aims are to help make laboratory safety part of everyday awareness and behaviour.

Alongside Katie Peterson and Alex Rudd (Joint Safety Team leaders), Bill Tolman will explain how empowering graduate students and postdoctoral researchers with the responsibility for driving improvements in the culture of safety is notably effective. His programme has not only helped to increase lab safety, but has benefited those seeking jobs in industry.

We hope you’ll join BioRAFT on Wednesday for their free Laboratory Safety Leadership webinar with the University of Minnesota!