The UC system entered into a settlement agreement following a major fire at a lab at UCLA, the UC campus in Los Angeles. The agreement sought to impose terms on the university system to help prevent similar accidents. One of the terms in the settlement was that lab personnel had to be well-informed about dangerous substances. So the university developed its own organizational rules, complete with individual protocols for about two hundred dangerous substances. Each of these two hundred individual protocols was about twenty pages long. Health and safety compliance managers were tasked with
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