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Asked by anon-306765 on 13 Dec 2021.
Question: have you ever been injured during an experiment?
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Kathryn Hutson answered on 13 Dec 2021:
No, our work is actually extremely safe – we use Risk Assessments to try to come up with possible issues before they happen!
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Rea Kozlowski answered on 13 Dec 2021:
No, not really. All work I did before my PhD was office based. But I know injuries can occur during my lab work, since I am working with sharp equipment (automated saws, fast drying cement, chemicals, etc.). So I have to be precautious.
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Caroline Roche answered on 13 Dec 2021:
Once but not too badly, I cut my finger on the plastic binder of the Test folder!
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Helene Brett answered on 14 Dec 2021:
Not recently, but when I first started (when I was 18), I was working in a lab and was cleaning glass fibres. I was using acetone (which is a cleaner for removing varnish) and I didn’t put my googles on. It then splashed into my eye. Luckily I rinsed it out and no harm done – however, I felt very stupid for not following the safety requirements as it could have been worse.
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Tom Ross answered on 14 Dec 2021:
No I haven’t – in the nuclear industry we all take safety very seriously, so accidents in the lab are incredibly rare.
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Marianne Morris answered on 15 Dec 2021:
I haven’t personally. It’s really quite rare but injuries do occasionally happen. These are usually slips/trips/falls around our sites or manual handling injuries. Sometimes a more serious injury can occur but these are almost always related to conventional safety, e.g. a fall from height or related to construction or demolition tools/equipment. I do not know of any event in my 12 years at Magnox where someone has had a radiation related injury.
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