Safety practices lax in nanomaterials research labs

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In this week's Nature, researchers present a survey of university and public laboratories showing that lab workers are not using adequate safety equipment when working with nanomaterials. As a lab rat who has worked at two universities and visited many other labs, I am not suprised to hear that some researchers are taking shortcuts with their personal safety, but the magnitude and ubiquity of the problem detailed in this survey was suprising

The survey was sent to researchers based on recent publications with keywords like "nanoparticle" or "nanowire" and 240 people responded. Of the respondants, 40 percent were from Europe, 37 percent were from Asia, 18 percent were from North America, and 5 percent were from elsewhere. Almost 90 percent of respondents either were not aware or believed that no federal or state/local regulations existed for handling nanomaterials. Nearly half said that their lab/university had no nanomaterial handling guidlines and over a quarter did not know or were unaware of whether their lab/university had specific regulations.

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They don't have safety guidelines? It's their funeral

[myidisbb]

They don't have safety guidelines? It's their funeral

even if there was no goverment rules you should always use common sense, an SOP and yoru own safety guidelines

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@myidisbb:

I guess they're just too curious for their own good

[myidisbb]

man i learn basic safety in a lab backin highschool these people most been the ones that made the student reports on climate chance with all the fake data. nanomaterials should be treated as if cocaine power in a meth lab with bio hazard level 4. yes its not like the sci fi movies but this stuff is still dangerous