From: Sheila KennedyDate: July 12, 2006 2:51:33 PM EDT Subject: Fume Hood airfoils OK, everyone (responding on the list) agrees the lab workers are ignorant of - fume hood design - fume hood operation - optimal conditions and interferences - gas cylinder safety. My questions for the list are: - how many of the respondents received ANY formal training in any of these topics? - when/how did they learn these systems? - what is your institution doing to educate undergraduate or graduate students on these topics? - are we going to let another generation of chemists rely on informal, "by the way, you should probably know..." training for this BASIC knowledge? I'm not just letting off steam here. I really do want to hear what other institutions are doing. I am very interested in the informal training noted above; I suspect that it doesn't reach enough people, although it may work very well for those it does reach. Sheila M. Kennedy, CHO Safety Coordinator Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr. #0303 La Jolla, CA 92093-0303 (858) 534-0221
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