Safety is an empirical science derived from past experiences.  We have learned many lessons from incidents that have helped formulate today’s safety practices and management.   We have learned that there are four principles that guide safety remembered by the acronym RAMP.  This talk will discuss a laboratory incident experienced by a graduate student while conducting research toward earning his advanced degree. This incident illustrates the role that ignorance of safety played in the incident, and as well as the lack of caring or considering safety in his research.  The result being that he did not think about the safety element needed in his work.  The audience will be asked to participate in helping identify the myriad of things the graduate student did that lead to the incident.  The lessons learned are relevant to today’s laboratories as the same shortcomings continue to happen to graduate students and show how the application of RAMP can keep you safe.  The analysis of the incident supports the need for a strong safety education as an undergraduate. <br/>

An unknowing, unthinking, uncaring graduate student learns a lesson about safety

256th National Meeting (2018)

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