SAFE Labs

Starting Aware Fair & Equitable Labs

I commit to establish a mechanism to record key outcomes from each 1-on-1 meeting

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This page collects real-world examples from labs around the world. We encourage all labs implementing the SAFE Labs Handbook to share their own commitments/statements here.

Germany

OttLab_2025: Prepare a written agenda for each 1-on-1 meeting with the PI. Document and summarize meetings afterwards on Notion (see Notion for details), highlighting short- and medium turm action items.

Italy

ReinhardLab_2025: All lab members are requested to send a short summary email to the PI after each 1o1 meeting. These can be bullet-point style but should contain concrete plans/agreements/outcomes. This format ensures that there’s a paper trail of what has been discussed and agreed on, but also that the PI and the lab member have the same understanding of the discussed matter.

United Kingdom

CoenLab_2025: Every lab member has a 1-on-1 meeting with their supervisor once per week. For post docs and PhD students, this will be Pip, but for Masters students and undergraduates, this may be another lab member. There is a dedicted (private) page for each lab member’s 1-on-1 meeting.

The supervisor, and lab member, both have responsibilities during this meeting. In brief: both parties should add discussion points to the meeting page throughout the week, and then during the meeting, they should go over these discussion points and update the to-do list. After the meeting, the lab member should write a summary of the meeting (100-200 words).

United States

AeryJonesLab_2026: Please summarize what we talked about in a brief Slack message to me within a day after the meeting. This helps me keep track of everyone’s progress and ensure that we’re on the same page.