Sentences with phrase «lab safety incidents»

Third, two of the most notorious lab safety incidents in recent years occurred at member institutions: the University of California (UC), Los Angeles, fire that led to the death of lab assistant Sheharbano «Sheri» Sangji and the Texas Tech University (TTU) explosion that maimed and critically injured graduate student Preston Brown.

Lab safety experts agree that making people aware that explosions, fires, poisonings, and other lab safety incidents happen because of risky decisions is an essential step in making those incidents far less common.

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During our weekly lab meetings, for instance, the lab head generously shares incidents when he was not perfect, such as safety blunders he made, and he freely asks questions when he doesn't know or understand something.

But surveys find incidents to be much more common in academic settings than in industrial labs, says James Kaufman, president of the Laboratory Safety Institute in Natick, Mass..

The charges, apparently the first to be brought in an academic safety incident, raise the widely neglected issue of safety standards at university labs.

In addition, the CDC plans to establish an external advisory group for lab safety and has initiated its investigation into the H5N1 incident.