Safety at university laboratories

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<p>Before starting the thread about the incident I talked to DD and found out about labs safety requirements at her college. She participated in UROP as a freshman itself so she referred me to the following site:</p>

<p>[MIT</a> UROP: For Students - Safety Requirements](<a href=“http://web.mit.edu/urop/guides/safety.html]MIT”>http://web.mit.edu/urop/guides/safety.html)</p>

<p>which clearly state an UROP student is not allowed to be alone at any time. Since your DD is a grad student so rules are different for them.</p>

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The PI/Supervisor of the laboratory is ultimately responsible for the health and safety of everyone in his or her laboratory, including employees and undergraduate researchers (UROPs). It is expected that UROP students will be supervised at all times while in the laboratory or other potentially hazardous environments. Therefore, a UROP student should not be assigned to be a supervisor, even of other UROPs or high school students.

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<p>Now you know why I was so much upset at Yale. The undergraduate girl should not be alone in a workshop operating a hazardous machine at 1 A.M. </p>

<p>It was just plain wrong and blatant lapse of safety at Yale.</p>