The Irish Blood Transfusion Service (IBTS) is a national organisation responsible for the collection, processing, testing and distribution of blood and blood products in Ireland with employees across its eight regional centres.

This role is based in National Blood Centre and is an excellent opportunity for a qualified Environmental, Health and Safety Officer to broaden their knowledge in a regulated environment.

The salary scale attached to the post is the Grade VI Scale €44,849 to €55,032 (incl. LSI) per annum. Entry point onto the salary scale is dependent upon relevant public sector experience.

To apply:
1.Visit www.giveblood.ie/jobs
2.Complete the application form
3.E-mail your completed application form to human.resources@ibts.ie before 9th January 2017

 At the University of Kentucky, incompatible wastes were accidentally mixed resulting in a fire and explosion. It is believed that nitric acid and halogenated organic solvents were involved, but the exact cause may never be known.

The explosion blew glass shrapnel across the laboratory. Students on the other side of the laboratory were hit with glass fragments, including at least one who reported that the glass bounced off his safety goggles.
Thankfully, this student was following the rule you must wear your safety glasses at all times in the laboratory even if you aren't "doing anything."

 http://www.ilpi.com/safety/explosion.html

The accident occurred as a senior laboratory technician was disposing of waste chemicals at the McClay Research Centre, off the Lisburn Road in the city.

Professor Sean Gorman said the bottle containing the chemical slipped from the man's hands.

"It was a volatile chemical and therefore the spillage was not apparent on the floor," he said.

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The tragic story of a young lab assistant, whose death exposed lax safety at UCLA and other universities and has led to an unprecedented criminal trial.

Sangji was working on a reaction involving tert-Butyllithium. She was 23 and had earned her bachelor’sdegree that spring. Two older postdoctoral fellows were engrossed in their own work nearby.Patrick Harran, the chemistry professor who had hired Sangji as a research associate two months earlier, was in his office one floor up.

Tert-Butyllithium, or t-BuLi for short, is what’s known as pyrophoric: it ignites spontaneously in air. Sangji picked up a plastic syringe
and began drawing up 54 millilitre quantities.

Nobody involved in Sangji’s story claims her death was anything other than tragic. But lawyers for Harran, the professor, say that tragedy was rooted in Sangji’s own actions: she was an experienced chemist who had botched a basic experiment she had completed successfully before. Her death was an accident, not a crime.

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A 34-year-old science teacher died from smoke inhalation Friday morning following an explosion inside a laboratory at the University of Health Sciences in Phnom Penh, officials said.

“It was a can of flammable spray that started the fire. He came first to prepare the lab equipment for showing his students and was careless with using the equipment,” Mr. Moniroth said.

“I heard an explosion from the lab and heard the victim shouting ‘help, help,’” Mr. Ner said. “We tried to save him from the room but it was very dark smoke and we couldn’t see anything,” he added.

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