The Yale Office of Environmental Health and Safety proudly honors Shumin Bian as our 2017 Employee of the Year for his leadership of the Biosafety Stewardship-Cold Storage Inventory Project. The project responded to NIH’s Directive and implemented the Institutional Biosafety Committee’s High-Risk Biohazard Policy. Assessing Yale’s 4,600 cold storage units was a multi-year undertaking! Shumin was assisted by student interns, who started with minimal knowledge of biohazards, laboratories and research freezers. Shumin trained the interns to safely enter labs, interact with staff, track the project’s progress and gain the cooperation of busy researchers. While managing this project, Shumin kept other Safety Advisors informed and received their assistance. Many people helped, but the project would never have been completed without exceptional persistence on Shumin’s part. And he did this while maintaining all of his Safety Advisor responsibilities. Amazing!
