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E-News and Notes Stanford University C o n t e n t s
Guidelines
on Children and Pets in the Workplace Contributed by The departments of Environmental Health
and Safety and Human Resources have collaborated on two new employee
and labor relations guidelines concerning the issues of safety and
health related to minors and pets and other animals in the workplace
at Stanford University. The guidelines were developed in part to
address possible health and safety concerns for minors in specific
work settings (labs and other potentially hazardous work areas)
and the fact that pets and other animals may pose potential health,
safety and hygiene issues. Please contact your local human resource
officer or EH&S for more information regarding either guidelines:
Domestic
Water Disinfection Change - Fall 2003 Contributed by In the fall of 2003 our drinking water
supplier, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, will switch
from chlorine to chloramine disinfection for drinking water. The
main reason for the change is to ensure compliance with stricter
federal and state water quality regulations. Battery Recycling Program Expanded to Student Housing Contributed by EH&S' award winning Battery Recycling
Program recently expanded to include Student Housing Services (SHS).
SHS' Health and Safety Coordinator, Don Rust, coordinated with the
E-Reps, a student environmental organization, to help establish
drop off locations within the residence halls. The new locations
will greatly enhance students' ability to easily recycle their used
batteries. Residences with drop off locations include Florence Moore
Hall, Governor's Corner, Roble Hall, Stern Hall, Wilbur Hall, Manzanita
Hall and Slavianskii Dom. Emergency Exercise 2002 Update Contributed by The Stanford Campus Emergency Exercise
held in November 2002 provided new learning for the Emergency Preparedness
Program Management Team that participated. Exercises are intended
for practicing, discovering, and generating renewed commitment for
continued improvement. As a result of the active participation and
feedback of academic and administrative Satellite Operations Centers
(SOCs), we will be updating the written SOC Guidelines document
in 2003, and we will also offer special training workshops to support
local SOC planning. Contact Roni Wade
if you would like to request some special assistance in developing
your SOC or department emergency plans. Contributed by
Clinical PET Comes to Stanford University Contributed by Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is
a fast growing imaging modality within Nuclear Medicine. It is useful
in detecting cancer and staging the severity of disease, in cardiovascular
disease and in diagnosing neurological disease. PET scanning displays
the metabolism of organ systems and so differs from the more common
Computed Tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which
display the structure of organs. The new device, which has arrived
on the Stanford University campus, is a hybrid device that incorporates
both PET and CT into a single device. This will enable the creation
of fused images that display the anatomy and the diseased area in
a single image. The PET/CT scanner looks like a lager version of
the now familiar CT scanner. The PET portion of the scanner has
a large ring detector, while the CT portion utilizes an x-ray tube
and a detector of its own. The patient would lie down on an imaging
couch and would then be moved through the doughnut shaped device
during an imaging procedure. The new PET/CT scanner is housed in
a modular building on the Blake Wilbur parking lot. Final preparations
are being made and it is expected that patients may be seen at the
new facility by the end of January.
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Environmental
Health & Safety is distributing 2003 pop-up calendars as a small
gift to campus colleagues and departments. We like using these fun
and convenient calendars to provide quick access to our department
and emergency contact information. This calendar's artistic design
is a representation of a globe of the earth. It utilizes a photograph
of the earth taken from the Space Shuttle. We hope that these pop-up
calendars will bring enjoyment and also maintain an open line of
communication between the University campus and the EH&S department.
If you are interested in obtaining a pop-up calendar, please contact
Karla Cassady, by email at 
