With the emergence of multidisciplinary research institutes across the academic landscape, health and safety professionals are met with unique challenges in the research laboratory.  The trend is for Principal Investigators who are firmly positioned in their respective disciplines to step outside those comfortable surroundings to collaborate on projects in areas often completely outside of their trained expertise.  Biologists conducting chemistry research, physicists working in biological models and chemists performing cutting edge optical imaging techniques are all examples of this phenomenon.  It is the job of the EHS office to provide the research community in institutes of this type with the tools and resources they need to conduct their research safely.

Multidisciplinary research institutes and the challenges they bring

254th National Meeting (2017)

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