Michal is an industrious, intelligent, creative, and innovative staff member for EHS. His modification work on a rear exhaust draft hood improved containment for handling lungs from patients infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The view screen he created increased the protection against droplets, splashes, and splatters and also increased the flow rates at the hood opening, greatly enhancing worker protection and safety. Michal organized an emergency repair after a containment wall in one of the containment chambers had fallen two days before a scheduled DPH inspection. He developed more permanent curtains with magnetic closures, sewing them himself on his mother’s old sewing machine. His template for the new magnetic containment curtains were subsequently used by Yale Project Management during Insectary upgrades. He is also helping the Environmental Affairs Section with critical work to comply with new national refrigeration standards and learning to serve as a back-up for air quality program and permitting requirements.
