Just be sure that any “sticker” you use is not visible to the public.  You don’t want to announce to the “creeps, etc.” that there is a person working alone.  When I was in grad school a fellow grad student was raped and killed while working alone in lab.

 

Kay

 

 

Hi group,

 

I have 2 questions for those working in academic laboratories.

 

1.       Have you ever experienced any situations where an overnight reaction form

has been precious for the emergency response ?

 

2.       Another common practice in academic research and even more at risk, is working alone in the laboratory.

Even if it is strongly discouraged, it is part of the academic culture. I am trying to implement a new system

with removable stickers to at least inform people outside the lab (security, etc…) that someone is running

experience alone in the lab. So I would like to receive some feedbacks, sharing experience on how

people manage this situation.

 

Thanks for any help on this.

 

Have a good day

 

 

 

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