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Health & Safety

New Policy Focuses on Lab Coats, Safety Glasses, and Footwear

That is the new policy for personal protective equipment (PPE) in laboratories at all NCI campus at Frederick facilities. Noting an increase in hand and eye injuries, Randall Morin, Dr. PH, as director of Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS), was tasked with reviewing the root causes of such accidents and updating the current policy. He and his team found that most, if not all, of the eye and hand injuries were preventable with the appropriate PPE.