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Occupational health and safety hazard alerts

  • Asphyxiation with liquid nitrogen
  • Chemical splashes to face and eyes
  • Children and campus work area hazards
  • Electric cabling in in-floor service ducts
  • Emergency release devices for door latches
  • Explosion in a materials engineering laboratory
  • Eye injury from shattering Pasteur pipette
  • Fire in laboratory freezer
  • Fire in pharmacology laboratory
  • Glass pipettes: a source of common laboratory injuries
  • High vacuum pumps with cold traps - use of
  • Hydrofluoric acid fatality in Perth
  • Lithium aluminium hydride incident
  • Magnetic stirrer/hotplates - inadvertent heating
  • Overheating of ovens and other heating devices
  • Plumbing of natural gas supply to safety cabinets
  • Transformer oil spill in car park
 

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