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Personnel   LBNL uses LabAlert (Everbridge) to communicate emergency information including required       Key Findings - Personnel 

Accountability    protective actions, and is required to test this capability during quarterly drills.  Low response     Accountability
Lab Alert)              rates indicate that critical emergency messaging may not reach a significant portion of the 
                                  Lab population, presenting a life safety concern.  

Liquids in            Custodial staff reported the discovery of an unknown liquid in trash bags inside a laboratory.       Key Findings - Liquids in Trash Bags

Trash Bags          Liquids in laboratories are not supposed to be discarded in regular trash containers. 

                                Custodial staff did not know what the liquids were, and they did not know if these

                                materials were dangerous or not. Unknown liquids in trash bags throughout lab areas 

                                could harm custodial staff.

Possible              A researcher felt lightheaded after encountering what they believed to be a nitrogen gas leak       Key Findings - Possible Nitrogen Leak
Nitrogen             in a laboratory in Building 2. An air hose leak was mistakenly believed to be a nitrogen leak. 

Leak                     

Blower                 The goal of this Learning Team was to improve/standardize communications between PMs            Key Findings - Blower Shutdown

Shutdown          who turn off  safety systems and Facilities Crafts/occupants of the buildings when PMs           

                                perform work that could impact occupants and activities.

PTHA Form        Currently, LBNL lacks daily direction for escorted/unescorted site observer/inspector visitors        Key Findings- PTHA Form 

for Observers   to perform a briefing on scope, hazards and controls (ISM). This team met to consider the need 

/Inspectors        for anyone doing work observations or inspections to be on a separate PTHA, the work they are 

                                observing’s PTHA, or some other method.