Hello Everyone,

Please find attached a summary of the safety incidents and near misses that were reported to me in the 2016 calendar year (January 1 – July6, 2016). I hope that sharing this information with you will prevent similar situations from happening in the future.

The second document attached is a more detailed description of the incident that occurred on May 20, 2016, which led to the Purdue Emergency Responders coming to the building, evacuating the building and restricting access to one of our labs, FRNY 3140, until air quality testing confirmed no presence of H2S, CO and VOCs in the air. This document was written by the safety officers and glove box super users in Dr. Agrawal’s group and I would like to thank them for sharing the details of this incident with us. Please pay attention to the “Lessons learned” part; there is very valuable information in that section.

Please continue to report all safety incidents and near misses using the form “Safety Incident/Near Miss Report” posted on our website: https://engineering.purdue.edu/ChE/aboutus/safety  under “Workplace Injury Information”.

As a reminder, when someone is injured during a safety incident, even if the injury does not require medical attention, it still needs to be reported to REM, using the First Report of Injury (FROI) form: https://www.purdue.edu/ehps/rem/home/forms/froi.pdf. The form, which is also available on our website, needs to be submitted by the supervisor. Please also add me (nagyg@purdue.edu) on the list of recipients, when you submit the completed FROI form by email.

Should you have any questions, please let me know.

Thank you for your commitment to safety!

Sincerely,

Gabriela

On behalf of the ChE Safety Committee

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Gabriela Nagy, PhD

Industrial Education Director

ChE Safety Committee Chair

School of Chemical Engineering

Room FRNY G041D

Purdue University

Tel: (765)-496-1710

E-mail: nagyg@purdue.edu