Re: [HAPS-L] Schools, Colleges, and OSHA

["Jon Jackson" <jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder if the courts have upheld a school's flunking or dismissing 
students for violations of lab safety rules where students have in turn 
claimed that professors or staff do not follow those same rules?

Jon

Labsafe@xxxxxxx wrote:
> There are three very good reasons why OSHA standards should be applied 
> to students.
>  
> First, it is more difficult to protect an employee properly if 20-30 
> other people in a work area are following practices that are 
> substantially lower.
>  
> Second, it is difficult to construct a logical moral or ethical argument 
> that cast students as a lower life form not worthy of the same or better 
> protection than employees.
>  
> Third, from a liability point of view, how would you argue in court when 
> being sued for negligence that an injured student should not have been 
> given the same protections (including the general duty clause) that the 
> employee was entitle to.
>  
> The academic institutions with the best EH&S programs recognize the need 
> to provide their students with the same or more protection and 
> explicitly included them as covered under both OSHA and all 
> institutional safety policies and practices. 
>  
> At the point where the president of the institution and chairman of the 
> board of trustees have signed and dated the institutional policy that 
> students are included, it does not matter where OSHA thinks they are or 
> not.   ... Jim
>  
>  
> James A. Kaufman, Ph.D.
> President/CEO
> jimkaufman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
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-- 
Dr. Jon Jackson
University of North Dakota
Department of Anatomy & Cell Biology, Room 1701
School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stop 9037
Grand Forks, ND 58202-9037

jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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