• Question: Did you ever get hurt or any massive injuries from working on an expiriment?!

    Asked by Charles.A to Leona, Micki on 9 Nov 2015. This question was also asked by Anna.
    • Photo: Leona Mc Girr

      Leona Mc Girr answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Hi Charles, thankfully not. I have heard some awful stories from other colleagues but the most important thing when in the lab is safety. In the lab I wear safety glasses, lab coat, rubber gloves and sometimes face masks (depending on what experiment I am carrying out).No matter what, always be safe in the lab and that means no eating or drinking in the lab either!

    • Photo: Micki Mitchell

      Micki Mitchell answered on 9 Nov 2015:

      Not from my own experiments, but from others! It’s always the other guy you have to watch out for! If you have bad laboratory practices, you can cause quite some mischief to the other people around you. I got chemical poisoning by someone leaving their experiment covered in a solvent on the lab bench, instead of in the fume hood, where it should have been. I was on a different work station beside it and was breathing in the fumes for quite some time, which made me really ill. I got a very bad rash another time from people drying nanoparticles again, on the lab benchbench, instead of in the fume hood. You always have to consider co-workers in the lab! As for the few dodgy violent reactions I was close to, I have the reflexes of a cat, and always jumped behind someone else for safety.. 😀

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