{"id":159,"date":"2018-11-02T10:32:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/?p=159"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:03:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T22:03:06","slug":"university-of-hawaii-fined-for-safety-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/university-of-hawaii-fined-for-safety-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Hawaii department fined for safety violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_160\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160\" style=\"width: 396px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-160 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.wp.wsu.edu\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-396x223.jpg\" alt=\"Hawaii aerial view\" width=\"396\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-396x223.jpg 396w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-792x446.jpg 792w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-990x557.jpg 990w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9-1188x668.jpg 1188w, https:\/\/wpcdn.web.wsu.edu\/wp-chem\/uploads\/sites\/2322\/2018\/11\/cc_University_of_Hawaii_Air_view_16x9.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 396px) 100vw, 396px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-160\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/careers\/2016\/03\/lab-explosion-maims-university-hawaii-postdoc\">The University of Hawaii, Manoa UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII\/WIKIMEDIA COMMONS<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>An investigation after a lab explosion in March which injured one post-doc found 15 violations surrounding the use of a 50L hydrogen\/oxygen gas mixture tank including improper grounding and led to $115,500 in fines.\u00a0 Along with technical issues the report emphasized a lack of efforts to enforce safety training, and supervisor&#8217;s understanding of their responsibility specifically with enforcement of a Principal Investigator reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/chemical-hygiene-plan\/\">Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)<\/a>. Earlier this month the fine was reduced to just over $69,000 with the university promising to enforce 38 pages of recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation after a lab explosion in March which injured one post-doc found 15 violations surrounding the use of a 50L hydrogen\/oxygen gas mixture tank including improper grounding and led to $115,500 in fines.\u00a0 Along with technical issues the report emphasized a lack of efforts to enforce safety training, and supervisor&#8217;s understanding of their responsibility specifically with enforcement of a Principal Investigator reviewed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/chemical-hygiene-plan\/\">Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP)<\/a>. Earlier this month the fine was reduced to just over $69,000 with the university promising to enforce 38 pages of recommendations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"wsuwp_university_location":[],"wsuwp_university_org":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions\/296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_location?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"wsuwp_university_org","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chem.wsu.edu\/lifesafety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wsuwp_university_org?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}