https://cen.acs.org/safety/lab-safety/10-years-Sheri-Sangjis-death/97/i1

10 years after Sheri Sangji's death, are academic labs any safer?

On Dec. 29, 2008, Sheharbano "Sheri" Sangji was working in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, when the reagent she was using ignited. Sangji was badly burned and died from her injuries on Jan 16, 2009. She was 23 years old.
Sangji's death rocked the chemistry community, but whether it inspired long-term changes in experimental planning and practices is unclear. C&EN asked scientists from all corners of chemistry to describe their efforts to improve academic lab safety culture.

We're not there yet.
The chemistry community can honor Sangji's memory by finding ways to encourage and ease safer laboratory practice, by Chemjobber.
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How we're making compliance beneficial.
The chemistry community has come a long way. Yet we haven't come as far as we can or should toward protecting those who do the heavy lifting of discovery research, by Debbie Decker.

I thought it would never happen to me.
Sangji's death was for me not an instant paradigm shift but rather the start of a gradual awakening to the importance of laboratory safety, by Ian A. Tonks.

How to instill a robust safety ethic.
Graduate programs could train for hazardous procedures as they train for NMR use, by P. J. Alaimo and Joseph Langenhan.

We turned a horrific incident into a force for good.
Safety Day fosters a culture of safety in our chemistry department, by Nicole S. Sampson and Jonathan Rudick.

What we can learn from safety experts in other fields.
Adopting best practices may preserve rather than hinder researchers' freedom, by Holden Thorp.

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