Culture of Safety

美国国家科学基金会化学部通过这一奖项支持美国国家科学院开展安全文化研讨会。这次研讨会将把物理科学家和管理人员与社会和行为科学界的专家聚集在一起，确定如何在非工业化学研究实验室的文化和对安全的态度方面产生有意义的变化。研讨会的目的是提供实际指导，指导实验室安全责任链中的所有参与者如何建立一个环境，在这个环境中，安全操作是预期的规范，并且通常优先于其他研究活动。本次研讨会将满足对非工业化学实验室的实验室安全进行更深入、跨学科探索的需要。它将把这些环境中的实践与其他已知的高风险管理部门的实践以及行为科学文献的知识进行比较。编制报告，说明建立和维持令人满意的安全文化的最佳做法。安全文化讲习班将通过其对改善非工业实验室安全的影响，加强研究基础设施。特别是，它将为大学管理者、系主任和教师提供有用的信息和指导，因为他们试图通过改善研究生和本科生的研究经验来建立安全实践的环境和心态。通过减少不安全的实验室操作对个人和社区的风险，以及通过使一批准备更充分的研究人员骨干能够在私营部门的研究中担任职务，预计整个社会都将受益。

With this award, the NSF Division of Chemistry supports the National Academy of Sciences in their efforts to develop a workshop on the Culture of Safety. This workshop will bring physical scientists and administrators together with experts from the social and behavioral sciences communities to determine how to effect a meaningful change in the culture and attitude toward safety in non-industrial chemical research laboratories. The objective of the workshop is to provide practical guidance on how all participants in the chain of responsibility for laboratory safety can build an environment where safe practice is the expected norm and is routinely given primacy over other research activities. This workshop will meet the need for a more in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of laboratory safety in non-industrial chemistry laboratories. It will compare practice in these settings with practice from other sectors known for managing high risk, and with knowledge of the behavioral science literature. A report on the best practices to create and maintain satisfactory safety culture will be produced. The Culture of Safety Workshop will enhance infrastructure for research through its impacts on improved safety in non-industrial laboratories. It particular, it will provide information and guidance that will be useful to university administrators, department chairs, and faculty as they seek to build an environment and mindset of safe practice by improving research experiences at both the graduate and undergraduate level. Society at large is expected to benefit by reducing the risks to individuals and communities from unsafe lab practices and by enabling a cadre of researchers who are better prepared to assume positions in private sector research.