General Safety & Environmental Stewardship 

We are fully committed to the safety of our employees and to the good stewardship of the environment. Safety is the first objective discussed in our annual performance review. We have incorporated a culture based safety program that begins with each and every employee starting from the first day of employment. We also ensure that laboratory waste is minimized as much as possible and that disposal follows our  local, state, and federal laws. 

We accomplish this by: 

• Providing full safety and environmental training for new employees before they begin working in the laboratory

• Maintaining an active steering commitee of senior scientists to address all safety and environmental concerns

• Conducting monthly safety and environment meetings for all employees

• Providing monthly safety and environmental training for all employees

• Requiring that all employees participate in the program

• Documenting our safety and environmental procedures through written procedures such as SOPs

• Assigning Laboratory Stewards to monitor each individual laboratory environment

• Requiring each employee to perform monthly observations of our staff, equipment, and procedures 

Radiation Safety

We were originally licensed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulators Commission (NRC) to test and store 14C material. The State of Pennsylvania has assumed that duty and regularly audits our facility and records. Our program is effectively monitored internally through our Radiation Safety Officer (RSO) and Radiation Safety Commitee.

The RSO maintains the appropriate licensing and documentation, hosts government regulators during on-site audits provides training for authorized users and limited handers, receives and ships radioactive materials and conducts monthly laboratory surveys of laboratory areas. The RSO also chairs our Radiation Safety Committee which oversees and addresses radiation safety concerns and conducts annual compliance inspections.