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Subject: Re: Fume Hood airfoils
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 13:57:10 GMT
Author: "paracelcusbombastusvon**At_Symbol_Here**juno.com"
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Subject: Re: Fume hood sashes
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:04:09 -0400
Author: Jay Young
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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2006 17:09:40 -0400
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From: Jay Young <chemcon**At_Symbol_Here**JUNO.COM>
Subject: Re: Fume Hood airfoils
Comments: To: esf**At_Symbol_Here**UVM.EDU
Sheila,
There is an excellent user's guide available for hood users. It is
"Laboratory Fume Hoods; A User's Guide" by Thomas Saunders, published by
Wiley, ISBN number 0-471-56935-6.
I recommend it highly.
Jay Young
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On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:04:10 -0400 List Moderator writes:
> From: Sheila Kennedy
> Date: July 12, 2006 2:51:33 PM EDT
> Subject: Fume Hood airfoils
>
> OK, everyone (responding on the list) agrees the lab workers are
> ignorant of
> - fume hood design
> - fume hood operation - optimal conditions and interferences
> - gas cylinder safety.
>
> My questions for the list are:
> - how many of the respondents received ANY formal training in
> any
> of these topics?
> - when/how did they learn these systems?
> - what is your institution doing to educate undergraduate or
> graduate students on these topics?
> - are we going to let another generation of chemists rely on
> informal, "by the way, you should probably know..." training for
> this
> BASIC knowledge?
>
> I'm not just letting off steam here. I really do want to hear what
>
> other institutions are doing. I am very interested in the informal
>
> training noted above; I suspect that it doesn't reach enough people,
>
> although it may work very well for those it does reach.
>
> Sheila M. Kennedy, CHO
> Safety Coordinator
> Undergraduate Teaching Laboratories
> Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry
> University of California, San Diego
> 9500 Gilman Dr. #0303
> La Jolla, CA 92093-0303
> (858) 534-0221
>
>
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