Lab Manager Magazine helps provide a forum and a framework to help lab professionals hire and supervise staff, establish a laboratory, and plan a coherent research program, while keeping the goals of good science and scientific discovery at the forefront.

Most lab managers, by education and experience, are thoroughly capable of handling the technical aspects of their jobs, but their managerial skills are often obtained haphazardly.

Lab Manager Magazine is written with those managers in mind and has the distinct editorial mission of providing practical information on business, strategy, leadership and staffing as well as the industry and technology news needed to effectively manage today's lab.

Managerial skills for most lab managers are often obtained haphazardly.

Lab Manager Magazine is written with those managers in mind and has the distinct editorial mission of providing practical information on business,  leadership and staffing as well as the industry and technology news needed to effectively manage today's lab.

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Lab Safety Revisited
This month’s feature article invites you a take a walk through your lab and look at everything as though seeing it unprejudiced and honestly for the very first time. Is there unnecessary clutter? Have your lab coats outlived their usefulness? What’s the condition of your lab’s extension cords? This simple exercise can help you develop a keener eye toward lab safety.
Glenn Ketcham and Vince McLeod

LEADERSHIP & STAFFING
14 Cross Training
When managers think of optimizing laboratory performance, they might think of buying a new instrument. But that would be overlooking something they already have—human performance optimization in the form of cross training. Such a method is becoming more common as managers need employees to be capable in a multitude of settings.
Allison Champion

18 Navigating Patent Inventorship Issues
Laboratory managers and team leaders, because of their knowledge of how research on a project unfolds, often play critical roles in deciding inventorship issues. Correct inventorship has to be considered whenever one or more of your staff members submit an invention disclosure to be considered for filing as a patent application.
John K. Borchardt

TECHNOLOGY & OPERATIONS
24 Avoiding Power Disturbances
Any number of variables during testing can cause inaccurate results, but most of the variables in the process can be rechecked and verified. As with most lab equipment problems, the most often overlooked is the lab’s utility power source and specifically its voltage regulation.
Michael A. Stout

28 Certified Pre-Owned
A performance verification system assures accurate and precise data from refurbished automated liquid handlers.

LAB DESIGN & FURNISHINGS
30 Modular Lab Design
Fundamental to the process of laboratory facility planning is an understanding of some basic design principles that ensure future adaptability. While each lab type remains unique, the purposeful application of modular design, zoning of tasks and implementation of flexible planning concepts will produce the most efficient and cost-effective solutions.
Steve Hackman

BUSINESS & FINANCE
38 The Analytical Lab as Strategic Asset
Increased visibility of laboratory operations to management can be unnerving, especially for managers who have previously been more focused on the science than the business of the laboratory. To prepare for increased exposure, managers must develop strategies to meet or exceed their organization’s demands and, most important, deliver meaningful results.
Cozette Cuppett

42 Regulatory Compliance
Today’s competitive market presents a fresh set of challenges to pharmaceutical companies. Good Practice consultants can assist those companies in achieving compliance by providing training on aspects of GMP for production and QC. They can also act as a facilitator to develop the culture that integrates other essential activities.
Mark Stevens and Tony Gasson

45 Engaging Your Service Partner
A strong partnership between a supplier and a lab is necessary in order for the lab to remain competitive. It is important to build that strong foundation early in the relationship, as this creates a critical path free of obstacles. Maximizing productivity, creating a learning community, and demanding quality management support will keep a lab operational and innovative.
Joachim Joerger

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EDITOR'S NOTE
Safety First
State-of-the-art technology will never deliver the scientific results you’re looking for without a well-trained staff to operate that technology and interpret the data it produces. And it’s your job as lab manager to see to it that your well-trained staff is, above all else, safe from any and all hazards that exist in a lab.

This month’s cover story opens with a nod to Alice in Wonderland, inviting you to revisit your lab the way Alice experiences her adventures in the rabbit hole—with eyes wide open. The exercise is intended to help you see safety problems brewing in your lab that might have previously gone unnoticed. It also reminds you to set an example to others when it comes to good lab safety practices.

Job hazard analysis (JHA), one cornerstone of a successful safety and health program, is the topic of this month’s Lab Safety article on page 56. JHA is method for figuring out the potential risks associated with a particular job and devising ways to control or eliminate them before an injury or accident occurs. It also provides one more tool for your lab safety toolbox. ...

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