Re: Reaching APASE and people like them

["Raymond A. Hoover" <rayhoover@hotmail.com>]

When I was running freshman chemistry classes I mostly worried about what 
the students might do which could result in their hurting me (especially the 
chromatography lab where ether was used)  (-:


>From: "ruth_weiner" <ruth_weiner@email.msn.com>
>Reply-To: radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu
>To: Multiple recipients of list <radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu>
>Subject: Re: Reaching APASE and people like them
>Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 11:33:01 -0600 (CST)
>
>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
> >Fax: 202.208.6518
> >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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