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Career Advice

Issue for August 4, 2006

Career Advice

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Wear Your Safety Goggles

By:

Jim Kling

"He was there less than 2 minutes, and he ended up with permanent reduction in his vision." --Denis Sapiro, Occupational Health and Safety Office, University of Washington, Seattle

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Lab Safety Requires Training and Commitment

By:

John K. Borchardt

“Researchers themselves must maintain labs from a safety perspective.” --Jim Kapin, 2006 chair of the American Chemical Society Division of Chemical Health and Safety

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Special Feature: Staying Well - Safety in the Lab

By:

James Austin

Just about every experimental science trainee experiences some variation on this theme: Their work entails a variety of risks in combination, they have little experience in dealing with those risks, and--much of the time--safety considerations take second place to getting the work done.

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Keeping Safe: Some Cautionary Tales

By:

Lynn Dicks

In all these cases, the outcome would have been better if the scientists and their colleagues had taken the time to fully appreciate the risks.

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