The Mount Sinai Lab Safety fair was held on Wednesday, June 22 in the Annenberg Building.
Hosted by Mount Sinai Environmental Health and Safety department, as well as the Laboratory Safety Committee (LSC) and other Mount Sinai vendors, the annual event is an opportunity for experts in lab safety to answer questions and to explain to Mount Sinai staff how to maintain a safe laboratory environment. This was the first in-person event since 2019.
“This event is to bring all the key players in lab safety together, including our vendors and departments throughout Mount Sinai,” says William Borgeson, Associate Director, Environmental Health and Safety.
“It is to show that we are a resource here for our lab staff, and to be open to questions giving them guidance, and helping them with anything they might need.”
Mount Sinai safety staff from different departments participated, including Mount Sinai’s radiation safety office, Employee Health Service, and the Biosafety Program. They answered questions from Mount Sinai staff and explained the role that their departments play within Mount Sinai Health System.
“We do have to worry about infectious diseases that are communicable and can easily be spread from people to people, so we need to have good laboratory hygiene and we need to have good laboratory biosafety practices,” says Randy A. Albrecht, PhD, Associate Professor, Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine, and Senior Director for Biosafety.
