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Subject: Re: What Should TAs Know About Lab Safety
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:46:51 +0000
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Subject: Re: What Should TAs Know About Lab Safety
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 17:08:53 -0700
Author: Lawrence M Gibbs


Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 14:31:50 -0700
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From: Eric Clark <erclark**At_Symbol_Here**PH.LACOUNTY.GOV>
Subject: Re: What Should TAs Know About Lab Safety
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Jim, 
A list in David Letterman format:  
  
10. There are no approved laboratory safety sandals yet.  
9. Extra goggles may be issued to laboratory students who feel they need 
additional eye protection on the tops of their heads.  
8. Young women must wear long pants to prevent distracting male laboratory 
students. 
7. Sitting on the lab bench may cause you to get another acid hole.  
6. To prevent pressure surges in laboratory tubing, remember: The flow is 
from the male connector.  
5. When assisting someone at the emergency eyewash, don't worry about 
messing up the hair.  
4. Hot glassware looks like cold glassware.  
3. Sometimes lab coats get hot; get used to it; life's not fair.  
2. Sometimes chemicals stink; that's the way it is; that's what fume hoods 
are for.  
1. HCN smells like almonds - that's what I heard, trust me on this one. 
 

Eric 

Eric Clark, MS, CCHO, CHMM 
Safety & Compliance Officer 
Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory

>>> Jim Kaufman  7/12/2010 8:20 PM >>>
What are the 10 most important things that a teaching assistant should  
know about lab safety?
 
I'll take all the suggestions sent directly to me and then post the David 
 
Letterman top X list.
 
Thanks ... Jim
 
James A.  Kaufman, Ph.D.
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