Chemistry and Biochemistry Academy

  Figure 1:  Mitchell Dufault, the late Yale University Student Physical hazards describe the potential risks contributing to physical injury or user harm. Conditions or factors in laboratories or workplaces cause these potential risks. There are different categories of physical hazards in laboratories. Some of them encompass electrical, hot surface, flammable material, oxidizing material, radiation (ionizing and non-ionizing radiation, UV radiation), glassware hazard, laser hazard, explosive, cryogenic, and high voltage hazards (Odhiambo et al., 2020). Therefore, technician assistants and students need to understand laboratory practices and management to make their space safer. In some circumstances, students think laboratory accidents do not happen to "experienced personnel or brilliant students". This is a misplaced conception, which is justified by an incident that took place at Yale University in 2011. Michele Dufault, a 22-year-old senior student, passed on when h...