Besides the intrinsic benefits of being safe in the workplace, safety has a very large impact on the quality of the products we make. Accidents always inhibit the manufacturing process and introduce waste into the process. In addition to your own safety, you will be working in close proximity to others and your adherence to safety is for their benefit as well as your own.

Safety is so important that it is included in the overall quality management system. Accidents happen and you cannot truly eliminate all accidents. We can try and mitigate accidents by establishing and enforcing safety rules and wearing appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE). All our processes are developed and maintained in such a way that minimize potential risks to all employees, while still meeting quality requirements.

In addition to the general lab policies of dress and PPE, Every WID and procedure discusses safety and details PPE. This allows a technician to manufacture a product with the minimal amount of risk. Because safety is written into the processes, it will also be documented as part of documentation procedures. This means that if an accident happens we can analyze the safety data to try and mitigate the chance of it happening again.

Learning Objectives:

- 2.1 - Explain Lab safety procedures