The good news is, chances are you won’t have to deal with a large chemical spill in your lab. But the bad news is, if this type of accident occurs, your lab is probably not going to be prepared for it.
“Large chemical spills are not common, thank goodness, but they do happen. And when they do happen, they're very serious. What I've seen in labs all across the country is that we are not ready,” Daniel J. Scungio, MT (ASCP), SLS, CQA (ASQ), explained during the NSH Chemical Hygiene Hacks webinar. “We're not ready to handle large spills. We're not ready to handle the use of the safety shower should something happen. We don't always have the spill kits ...