Lab Safety
Feb. 5th, 2003 06:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
opabiniaAside from her habit of spilling chemicals all over the place, I hadn't noticed anything particularly hazardous about the Chinese post-doc's (let's call her "Linda") behavior lately.
Today I noticed a very strong gas smell. She had turned on the gas supply to a bunsen burner and walked away for a few minutes. I made a comment about how it wasn't a big deal, because at worst, she would have just blown up the lab and set us all on fire. I hope my message crossed the culture barrier.
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Date: 2003-02-05 08:55 pm (UTC)Oh, wait, you smelled it. I guess it was just out on the bench. Sweet Jesu, as they say.
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Date: 2003-02-05 09:40 pm (UTC)Anyway, it was actually in a hood -- but a laminar flow hood, not a charcoal hood. So yes, it would have been messy.
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Date: 2003-02-07 09:20 am (UTC)Laminar flow hood, eh? Got to love that flying glass!
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Date: 2003-02-07 09:24 am (UTC)Yeah, Linda has quite the reputation now. Whenever there's a mysterious spill, and whenever equipment or instruments are left in some strange state, we ask her first. If she doesn't know, then we go to the most clueless medical fellow, and so on.
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Date: 2003-02-06 07:58 am (UTC)With people this clueless, irony is lost, whatever the language. You might want to make sure that she gets the message, like greet her with "You remember, now, TODAY, do not leave the busen burner on when you're not there" EVERY fucking morning until she quits.
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Date: 2003-02-06 08:53 am (UTC)Heh... Just ask
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Date: 2003-02-07 09:24 am (UTC)