1. Safety training processes at Purdue MSE

2. Enabling student ownership Safety is everyone’s responsibility Grad student association came up with training for all incoming students https://engineering.purdue.edu/MSE/Researc h/Safety/MSE_Safety_Seminar_10_07_2011.p df Won university award for this in 2012. However, it was only a start… And we had 30% fewer grads, and 50% fewer undergrads then

3. Framework for Habitual Organizational Excellence Culture is behavior over time Teamwork is effective mechanism to structure desired behaviors Continuous learning and improvement provides effective feedback and response mechanism among lab stakeholders Key Challenge: how do we grow as a department (people/productivity) and improve our safety and lab usability. Concepts from Paul O’neill, former Alcoa CEO

4. Evolution of Culture of Safety

5. MSE Hierarchy of Safety Roles YOU are the most responsible for your physical safety The people above on hierarchy facilitate/guide Organization-Level Responsibility Research Advisor/ Course Instructor Graduate Student Mentor/Teaching A Undergraduate Student Department Head (Prof. Bahr) Safety Committee Lab PI (name on the lab door) Personal-Level Responsibility

6. Recent Example from Purdue MSE Polishing/Etching Lab: 200+ users for ~400 square foot lab Stakeholders: undergrad students, senior design, graduate researchers, TA’s, faculty, staff associated with facilitating lab activity Research and Teaching space – Common polishing and etching tasks – Advanced/restricted tasks (i.e. HF) Key Problem: too much staff time was spent on ‘putting out fires’ with respect to keeping the lab safe and functional Tasks/responsibilities were concentrated on just a few people Solution was to distribute responsibilities to reflect usage and stakeholders

7. Friendly reminder via “note on the glass window” from staff member after a walk-through Increasing Faculty and Staff Engagement Diversifying safety committee Representing all stakeholder groups Increased communication among students and faculty Periodic ‘walk-throughs’ from faculty, students and staff Developed a core user list for each lab space and identified student leader Clarifying roles as “do-er” vs. “facilitator” for core safety tasks Annual safety “volunteer” hours Safety committee expects 1 hour of time from each grad student in the spring

8. Workplace visual standard Thanks to Advisory Board Thanks to Chris Owen – Professor of Professional Practice, formerly Alcoa “Lean” Concept …we teach it, why not do it Developed in concert with standard operating procedures for tasks/equipment with large users This photo is posted above lab station as example of “clean & ready to use” area.