Identification of the Potential Hazards in a Teaching Chemistry Laboratory

Abstract

Teaching and research laboratory staff members are continuously and hardly working to report any incident took place in their facilities. Furthermore, these incidents have been extensively investigated in depth with explicit report of the potential reasons for these incidents as well as suggesting feasible precautions to avoid them in the future. However, it has been realised that raising students as well as personnel in laboratories is important to hider any possibility for having any accident. The objective evaluation of the infrastructure which is necessary for conducting experiments as well as maintaining safety measures at all times and this job can be run by the chemistry safety standards committee (CSSC) within chemistry departments. Herein, we report for the first time a comprehensive evaluation for chemistry laboratories in terms of the infrastructure, incidents, and the renovations occurred at these amenities. Additionally, there is a detailed description for all laboratory staff or students misconducts with a roadmap to offer a better research or teaching laboratory that complies with international safety standards.