Laser Safety
Laser safety officer contact
Sergey Avanesyan
Certified Laser Safety Officer
phone: 343-2336
resources
- Laser Inventory Form
- Laser Safety Program Manual
- Laser Safety Training – please send certificate of completion to lasersafety@vanderbilt.edu when completed
- Laser User Authorization, Registration, and Transfer Form (LUART)
- Laser Disposal Form
- Laser Inspection Checklist
- Template for Lab-Specific Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)
laser safety Committee
Committee Charge:
The Laser Safety Committee will ensure that lasers are used safely and in compliance with accepted standards and local, State of Tennessee, and federal regulations.
Committee Members:
- Aaron Covey, facilities analyst, facilities/dean’s office
- Andrea George, director of environmental health and safety, division of administration
- Anthony Tharp, assistant dean, School of Medicine
- Bill Gabella, research assistant professor of physics, Arts and Science
- Duco Jansen, senior associate dean for graduate education and faculty affairs, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of neurological surgery, School of Engineering
- Doug Horr, associate vice chancellor, office of audit risk and compliance
- Kelsey Bahadursingh, manager of internal audit, office of audit risk and compliance
- Larry Cox, Engineering and Science Building manager, facilities/dean’s office
- Liane Moneta-Koehler, program manager, office of the vice provost for research
- Matthew Tyska, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair Professor of cell and developmental biology, scientific director of cell imaging share resource, School of Medicine
- Mya Batton, senior director, risk and insurance management
- Richard Haglund, Stevenson Professor of physics, Arts and Science
- Ruth Nagareda, manager of compliance, office of audit risk and compliance
- Shane Hutson (chair), chair and professor of physics and professor of biological sciences, Arts and Science