Does anyone have guidance on wearing hats in lab?  An instructor for sophomore organic chemistry at my institution reports that a student has repeatedly come to lab wearing a cowboy hat.  The student is otherwise appropriately dressed, but we wonder about visibility (will the student's peripheral vision be obstructed?), whether people might bump into the hat, and whether the hat might knock over glassware.  (It's a pretty crowded room when everybody is setting up their apparatus.)

Is this something others have encountered?  Are hats in lab acceptable from a safety perspective?   

Nora Dunkel, CHMM

Chemical Safety Officer--Webster University

ISB/Browning Hall 314

314-246-2244 (desk)

661-348-1445 (cell)

noradunkel51@webster.edu

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