Chemical Safety Awareness  23/7/2015

"Very interesting. Bit of an eye opener.

"Very useful and informative."

"Videos and labels were very good. Very useful to do spill drill."

"Very satisfied with course content and practical work."

"Great training. Very practical and explanative."

"Good course. Great to get examples of what chemicals can do."

"Excellent practical exercises and good to put into practice."

"Very good and the videos helped a lot."

"Very good and learnt a lot. The practicals were very helpful."

"Good interaction on the subject. Subject was made interesting."

Lab Fundamentals Course 17/9/2015

"Excellent presentation and thorough."

"Excellent. Knowledgable instuctor and good relevant examples."

"Good quality and very interesting."

"Good course, learned a lot. Instructor has plenty of expertise and is familiar with Teagasc labs."

"Interesting content with plenty of examples."

"3 hours of very useful training. Someone can learn a lot and be more aware when working in the lab, realising the dangers and protecting themselves."

"The training was very informative and covered more important details."

"Very good. Covered different aspects and depts."

"Very good - well presented and very informative. Learnt a lot of crucial information."

"Very helpful and interesting."

"Very good course and useful with real examples of real accidents."

"Good outline of lab safety, consequences were well illustrated."

"A lot of information and very well explained."

"Covered all aspects of lab safety."

"Course was very informative and beneficial to my field of study."

"Really insightful and contained valuable information." 

Chemical Risk Assessment Course

23/03/2015

"Delivery and content were great and greater understanding on why RA are done and how."   

"Going to the lab and seeing the assessment was beneficial. Good notes provided"

"Knowledge of Trainer. Practical aspects in lab."

The accident occurred as a senior laboratory technician was disposing of waste chemicals at the McClay Research Centre, off the Lisburn Road in the city.

Professor Sean Gorman said the bottle containing the chemical slipped from the man's hands.

"It was a volatile chemical and therefore the spillage was not apparent on the floor," he said.

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The tragic story of a young lab assistant, whose death exposed lax safety at UCLA and other universities and has led to an unprecedented criminal trial.

Sangji was working on a reaction involving tert-Butyllithium. She was 23 and had earned her bachelor’sdegree that spring. Two older postdoctoral fellows were engrossed in their own work nearby.Patrick Harran, the chemistry professor who had hired Sangji as a research associate two months earlier, was in his office one floor up.

Tert-Butyllithium, or t-BuLi for short, is what’s known as pyrophoric: it ignites spontaneously in air. Sangji picked up a plastic syringe
and began drawing up 54 millilitre quantities.

Nobody involved in Sangji’s story claims her death was anything other than tragic. But lawyers for Harran, the professor, say that tragedy was rooted in Sangji’s own actions: she was an experienced chemist who had botched a basic experiment she had completed successfully before. Her death was an accident, not a crime.

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