Importance Of Laboratory Safety Practices

INTRODUCTION

Laboratory settings represent an extremely important part of effective science learning. Written stuff and pictures can bring across a huge amount of knowledge and information, but students learn more when the watch and observe experiments in labs. Although many science activities presents possible dangers but reasonable, cautious and wise safety practices greatly decrease the chance of sudden and unplanned crashes. When students strictly follow the safety standards they are unlikely to meet any hazards [1]. Knowing the possible dangers/risks and steps taken to prevent trouble or injury are the basis for creating a safe learning atmosphere. All students studying science benefit from participating safety procedures. To improve

No reference point has been established as to what constitutes a truly safe and hazard free atmosphere in laboratories. It is impossible to remove all dangers from a laboratory, therefore, we should strive to make the laboratory reasonably safe. In 1990 the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) introduced the Laboratory Standard to protect employees working in laboratories. it is a performance standard designed to protect employees working in laboratories [2]. Many students ignore safety during the course of their studies. They are likely unaware that safety education and safety ethics were not part of their education. This often only becomes evident when they arrive at their school as teachers and learn they are now responsible for the safety of their students, the safe operation of their laboratories, and the safety of their experiments and demonstrations. Now that they are teaching our children, they want keep their students safe, want to be able to think critically about safety, and want to be able to conduct lab exercises and demonstrations safety . The Lab Standard brought about positive changes in academic institutions [2]. How has lab safety developed, and hopefully improved, in the 25 years since the OSHA Lab Standard was developed? Prior to 1990, there were no OSHA regulations that applied

They are categorized according to the activities that take place in particular biological labs. They are actually shields to protect the people working in the labs as well as the surrounding environment and community. These levels which are scaled from ONE to FOURE based on the agents or organism under experiment. For example, a basic lab setting which deals with nonlethal agents that present a minimal potential threat to lab workers and the environment are generally considered BSL-1—the lowest biosafety lab level. A specialized research laboratory that deals with possible deadly infectious agents like Ebola would be ranked as BSL-4—the highest and most severe