UCSB Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Policy
Our campus policy on PPE defines the minimum requirements to maintain safety in UCSB laboratories.
The entire policy can be found here.
A poster summarizing the policy has been placed in all campus laboratories. Electronic and hardcopies are available from EH&S.
A few key elements of the policy:
- The University of California is committed to providing a healthy and safe working environment for all members of the campus community. It is University policy to comply with all applicable health, safety and environmental protection laws, regulations and requirements. Therefore, all laboratory workers shall wear/use the required personal protective equipment, as presented in this policy, at all times when in a University laboratory engaged in academic activities, research, or teaching.
- Principal Investigators and laboratory management staff are responsible for complying with this policy, ensuring their staff receive appropriate training, and comply with this Policy as it relates to their research and teaching activities. Each supervisor is responsible for ensuring that his/her workers have been provided with the appropriate PPE per this Policy, at no cost to the worker.
• All laboratory workers are responsible for following the requirements for wearing and properly maintaining PPE as outlined in this Policy and in laboratory-specific safety training. - The minimum PPE requirements to maintain safety in University laboratories are outlined below. Some operations and materials may warrant further PPE, beyond the minimum, as noted by Standard Operating Procedures, local facility policies, the Material Safety Data Sheet, or regulatory requirements. Accordingly, individual supervisors should impose those additional warranted requirements necessary to ensure safety in the laboratory.
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