{"id":655,"date":"2010-05-27T13:08:57","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T17:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/?page_id=655"},"modified":"2025-01-22T12:18:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T17:18:05","slug":"working-alone","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/laboratory-safety-home\/laboratory-safety-programs-services\/lsc-toolkit\/lab-resources\/safe-work-practices-in-the-lab\/working-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working in a laboratory alone or in isolated areas presents unique risks and hazards. Working alone is prohibited in certain laboratories (as described in laboratory-specific SOPs) and is discouraged in all other laboratories. In the even a worker must work alone in the laboratory, these guidelines should be followed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schedule work so that hazardous tasks are performed during times when the worker is not alone.<\/li>\n<li>The worker should inform a co-worker, or even a friend, family member, colleague that they will be in the laboratory alone and give them information on who to contact in the event the worker does not check in.<\/li>\n<li>On the Boston University Medical Campus (BUMC), the worker can notify Public Safety at 414-4444 and officers will include the laboratory on the building\u2019s walk-through, if applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Working in a laboratory alone or in isolated areas presents unique risks and hazards. Working alone is prohibited in certain laboratories (as described in laboratory-specific SOPs) and is discouraged in all other laboratories. In the even a worker must work alone in the laboratory, these guidelines should be followed: Schedule work so that hazardous tasks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3173,"featured_media":0,"parent":14472,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14945,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/655\/revisions\/14945"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ehs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}