Wearing appropriate PPE is sexy. If you’re not going to do it for your own health, do it to impress the freaky labrats.
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Submitted 11 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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nickwitha_k@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Steel toe > stiletto
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Get in the habit. Someday you’ll be in front of a vat of boiling hydrofluoric acid, and you’re gonna want to be comfortable in all that PPE.
macarthur_park@lemmy.world 11 months ago
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Soulfulginger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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CyanFen@lemmy.one 11 months ago
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GunValkyrie@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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in4aPenny@lemmy.world 11 months ago
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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 11 months ago
TBF it wasn’t Sodium Chloride salt, it was Arsenic Trioxide.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
CMV: Lab coats give a false sense of security that leads to more dangerous actions and does more bad than good on the long run
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This has “dont wear your seatbelt or wear condoms” energy. It never made any sense to argue that point there and it doesn’t make sense here either. Wear your lab coat and goggles or you’re going to be kicked out of the lab until you grow up.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Spill something acidic on yourself and come back to me.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I would consider doing that if I had a lab coat
skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
lab coat or nitrile gloves for that matter aren’t supposed to make you safe, lab coat is supposed to give you enough time to run to shower if something really bad happens. if you’re looking for protection from everything you need something much more substantial
xkforce@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes we know salt and water arent dangerous. We ask that you wear labcoats etc. in the lab despite not working with anything dangerous so tjat you form a habit of using protective lab garb regardless. Because a lot of accidents in the lab cause harm becaude someone thought it was safe to lower their gaurd and it wasn’t.
Case in point: one of my undergrad professors during his time at grad school walked around in the lab without his safety goggles on. He felt comfortable doing that because he wasn’t himself working on anything particularly dangerous at the time. He was just walking from one end of the lab to the other. Well it turns out that someone else was. There was a fairly good sized glass bottle with fuming nitric acid and other stuff for a reaction in it that was boiling away in the fume hood. There was a funnel sitting in the neck. Occasionally the jug would “bump” in other words, some liquid would spurt up top due to a slight build up in pressure caused by intermittant boiling. And one time while he was walking by, it burped a lot more violently than it normally would and some of it sprayed into his eyes while he was walking by. He spent the next two weeks in a dark room occasionally dropping antibiotic eye drops into his eyes so his corneas would heal. Apparently it was fairly painful and every blink felt like he rubbed sandpaper over his eyes. If it had been a strongly basic solution, it would have eaten his corneas and potentially blinded him permanently. Point is, we are trying to stop you guys from becoming too casual in the lab so you dont have your corneas half eaten by nitric acid because you felt safer than you actually were.
TDCN@feddit.dk 11 months ago
Same for bicycle helmets. Maybe you are not crashing because you feel like pro rider and you are just biking 500m today, but someone else might run into you by accident making you crash. Same for seatbelts in the parking lot.
perishthethought@lemm.ee 11 months ago
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ornery_chemist@mander.xyz 11 months ago
To add, labcoats don’t just mitigate splash hazards. When walking around lab and working at the bench, you brush can up againt all kinds of surfaces that, despite people’s best efforts (or less-than-best if in school), may not be perfectly clean. The coat guards against contamination of your skin, yes, but also your other clothing, which may transfer the contamination to skin, eyes, or mouth by inadvertent contact later. I’ve got a sweater with a lovely nitric acid stain (read: a small charred hole) from such a scenario, though tgat was partially due to a poor coat fit.
Also, I see you premeds. Button up your damn labcoats and do not leave the lab with them on. This ain’t TV.