呼吁在实验室安全文化中更加关注生殖健康
Catherine P McGeough1, Sarah Jane Mear1, Timothy F Jamison1
1Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States.
Journal of the American Chemical Society
|August 6, 2021
概括
学术实验室需要更好的生殖健康指导. 目前的化学卫生计划 (CHP) 不公平地负担孕妇研究人员, 缺乏明确的毒素信息, 需要为所有人改善安全沟通.
科学领域:
- 实验室安全
- 生殖健康
- 学术研究
背景情况:
- 目前在学术实验室的生殖健康和安全指导不足.
- 超过100所医院的化学卫生计划显示, 孕妇或计划怀孕的妇女承担生殖安全的责任.
- 有权威的资源显示在分类生殖毒素方面存在不一致,导致混乱.
研究的目的:
- 分析学术实验室中生殖健康和安全指导的现状.
- 发现现有的生殖健康化学卫生计划 (CHP) 的缺陷.
- 为改善实验室安全和包容性提出可行的变化.
主要方法:
- 来自100多个学术机构的化学卫生计划 (CHP) 的分析.
- 对潜在生殖毒素分类的权威资源的审查.
- 确定机构指导的共同主题和缺陷.
主要成果:
- 现有医疗保健机构通常将生殖健康和安全的责任交给孕妇或计划怀孕的妇女.
- 在不同资源的生殖毒素分类中存在重大不一致.
- 目前的指导缺乏明确性和一致性,给实验室研究人员带来困惑.
结论:
- 学术机构必须改变他们的模式,
- 对于所有实验室研究人员来说,清晰,一致的信息和关于生殖健康的正常讨论至关重要.
- 实施这些变化将促进更安全,更包容的学术实验室环境.
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