Re: Reaching APASE and people like them

["ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>]

Every chemistry lab I ever taught, and all those I knew about, taught safe
procedures and emphasized safety.  One doesn't do this only because it is a
good idea, but because any student who is injured or otherwise harmed in the
lab, even through his or her own carelessness, is likely to sue the school.

Ruth Weiner
ruth_weiner@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Burnfield <Danb@DNFSB.GOV>
To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
Date: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: Reaching APASE and people like them


>I think it is a shame that most engineering and science curriculums do not
require a single course in safety whether it be everyday hazards or the
hazards we possibly experience from exposures to radiation or chemicals.
>
>Dan Burnfield, CHP PE
>
>Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
>625 Indiana Ave, NW Ste. 700
>Washington, DC  20004
>
>Tel:  202.694.7113
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>Email danb@dnfsb.gov
>
>>>> Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu> 01/03/01 11:31AM >>>
>
>> >What were the qualification s of her teachers? In my decades of
>teaching I
>> >saw, believe me, lots of crummy students and  fair amount of >crummy
>> >science teaching.
>
> --In most (if not all) U.S. universities, a person can be an
>excellent student and get a Ph.D. in Physics or in Chemistry, and not
>learn anything about health effects of radiation. In fact most such people
>get their principal education on that from newspapers and magazines.
>
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