Undergraduate chemistry students need strong safety skills upon their graduation so that they are equipped to work in the chemical industry, to teach chemistry in secondary schools or college, or to work toward a graduate degree. Graduating chemistry students should know how to recognize laboratory hazards, how to assess the risk of exposure to those hazards, how to minimize or manage the risk of those hazards in the laboratory, and how to be prepared to handle laboratory emergencies. This paper will describe the topics that should be covered so that during their years of study undergraduates acquire the necessary safety skills to work in their future jobs safely.

Safety skills needed by undergraduates upon graduation

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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