Seems like personal safety and product safety are often missed in all training activities. Developing an understanding about why we do the things we do (not that we just ādoā them) for both personal and product safety are missed almost everywhere I go.
So glad that you are still kicking and getting these supplies out for your students!
Iām 100% down to do a safety training personal or product should you need. <3
Aww you are all going to make me emotional seeing all this support and encouragement after class today. Thank you so much! I am definitely taking notes and adding sections
I couldnāt agree more with this, I try to give them reasons on why we do things not just " do what your asked because thatās the rule". I learned many things the long way or hard way haha not all due to others by any means but with a couple bosses that used this phrase, " just do what your told". That doesnāt sit well with people, so I love giving them the options and reasons we do things. Good and bad. I show pictures of my successes and failures in the lab to show this exact thing with even me, their instructor who has experience, can yes also learn and mess up.
If someone walked in the door, convinced me they werenāt a complete idiot, and had done - and could explain at at least a 101 level - potency testing and extraction efficiency / yield testing on flower they grew and turned into products, theyād probably get hired on the spot.
If youāve got access to a GC or HPLC, Iād try to work something like that in.
The first law is āif it spins, itāll rip your hand off.ā
The second is āthe machine is probably going to tell you before it gets too rowdy. Listen to it.ā
These would be good things to cover, especially grounding. We donāt have flammable solvents around much but I still manage to jump and freeze and check my surroundings at the same time if I feel a static shock.
I think process safety and hands on fundamentals are the parts that are the most useful from a potential employerās perspective. I seem to remember that the GLG handbook(?) thatās floating around here had a good 101 level description of the equipment and some of the processes.
Thank you for taking the time to do this, we do have an HPLC on sight and we have been working on getting that up and running this semester. I have no experience on one of these but I do know we have one in the lab that we can start using in the fall.
@Roguelab we might be able to pry that white paper out of @Photon_noirā¦I donāt have a copy at this point, and he was the primary author on that one
You should contact summit research. They are huge on donating and supplying schools and colleges and supporting the students in the industry.
They often donate short paths to educators, and parents who have kids with epilepsy and or special needs as well as care takers and producers for very Iāll people or patients who are terminal. All of the donated short paths for special needs kids, veteran supply groups, and terminal supply chain producers have been donated by summit research.
Uh oh! I have had close calls but never actually had an accident but noted! I learned my lesson with our lanyards and badges we have to wear and it hitting everything in the lab as you work.
I did start reading through that over the weekend and have been loving it. I appreciate the site so much for the resources and methods explained. We all have similar goals but work with the material differently and I love seeing it.
āAlthough the lid opened easily, the basket was still rotating at a very high rate of speed. Georgeās arm was caught in the machine and severed almost immediately. There was testimony that the energy created by the rotating basket was so great it could have actually sucked the boyās arm into the machine when the lid was opened.ā
I learned my lesson with our lanyards and badges we have to wear and it hitting everything in the lab as you work.