Researcher's Risk Perception of Academic Labs (17WLABS)

When:  Dec 5, 2017 from 14:00 to 15:00 (ET)
As part of its mission, the UC Center for Laboratory Safety investigates and conducts research on accidents. This session will summarize work on risk perceptions that researchers display in laboratories of academic institutions. Safety behavior was found to be strongly correlated with researcher's risk perception in their labs. Researchers in academia are prone to underestimating their risk, especially if the hazard is not sufficiently recognized, the experimental protocol changes, or a new hazard with unknown risk is created as part of the experimental process.

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