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> bionet/microbiology #1122, from milind-deshpande at uiowa.edu, 885 chars,
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> From: "Dr. Milind Deshpande" <milind-deshpande at uiowa.edu>
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> Subject: Re: Micro Lab Safety Policy
> Date: 8 Nov 1995 23:05:36 GMT
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> To: 71151.1241 at CompuServe.COM> X-URL: news:47o03m$mp4$1 at mhadg.production.compuserve.com>> I would like to hear from various people how they are handling safety
> issue be it a university lab or from an industry.
> Milind
>>The short answer is with gritted teeth.
There is no real problem in drawing up safe working rules for a general
microbiology laboratory - the problem is in drawing up rules that would
make the laboratory totally idiot-proof - and still make it possible to
get some work done.
Sensible rules require some understanding of the subject and the jargon
- a major problem in the university environment is in keeping people out
of labs who have no microbiological knowledge at all.
Send me a snail-mail address and I will happily send you our rules.
Peter Harris,
Department of Soil Science,
The University of Reading,
U.K.
AKA P.J.Harris at reading.ac.uk
