Awards were given to labs, departments, and personnel in recognition of their achievements in safety culture.
The 2021 award winners for Top Dawgs in Safety:
- Burke Museum
- Department of Pharmacy
- Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound
- Department of Emergency Medicine
- Department of Allergy & Infectious Disease
- Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology
The 2021 award winners for Pack Leaders in Safety:
- Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, Biological Structure
- Wai Pang Chan, Biology
- Charles Chavkin, Pharmacology
- Sharon Doty, Environmental & Forest Sciences
- Warren Ladiges, Comparative Medicine
- Rebecca Neumann, Civil & Environmental Engineering
- Julie Palumbo, UW Tacoma SIAS
- Kenneth Thummel, Pharmaceutics
- Douglas Wacker, UW Bothell STEM
The 2021 award winners for Partners in Safety:
- Margaret “Peggy” Combs, Friday Harbor Laboratories
- Tatyana Galenko, Materials Science & Engineering
- Zackary Herbst, Chemistry
- Ken Keesler, UW Facilities
- Uly Rivera, CoMotion
Guest speakers included Provost Mark Richards, Stephanie Harrington from the College of the Environment, Kelsie Abrams and Katherine Anderson from the Burke Museum laboratories, and Zackary Herbst from the Chemistry department. There were presentations on tools and best practices created and put into effect to improve the culture of safety in laboratory spaces, including innovations devised by researchers from UW’s campuses over the past year.
For additional information, please contact labcheck@uw.edu.