August Safety Communication

                                                                                                     8/1/2013

To All:

   On 7/10/2013, LORRE passed the 2013 ISP annual renewal certification. Congratulations and thank all of you for your support, cooperation, and help with the LORRE safety program.

   Based on REM ISP inspection’s suggestion, there are two graduate students, Barron Hewetson and Mahdieh Aghazadeh, being added to our LORRE safety committee as student representatives. They will help strengthen our safety committee and help make the program more efficient. 

   LORRE safety retraining will take place when the Fall semester starts back up. We will inform you when we have set an exact date and time.

   This year we are trying a new strategy for pipette maintenance.  Rather than sending all the pipettes to a company for maintenance, as we have done in the past, Prof. Mosier has trained us to disassemble, clean, and verify the accuracy of the pipettes.  Bring your pipettes to room # 333 next week and we will perform the cleaning and calibration.  If there are any pipettes which have missing or broken parts we can send them in and have them replaced.  In the future if new students need pipettes we will charge it to their project.

   Also,one student, Maurytania Lagunas lost a small black package containing white hearing aids (Siemens Brand) and she might have left them in room #333. If found, please email mlagona@purdue.edu.

Thanks,

LORRE Safety committee