• Question: have you ever had a near death accident in your work

    Asked by lawrence to Chris, Emily, Martin, Natalie, Tamsin on 16 Mar 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Martin Coath

      Martin Coath answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      No – my work is fairly safe. But I bike to work every day and that can be pretty scary 🙂

    • Photo: Chris Cooper

      Chris Cooper answered on 16 Mar 2010:

      no fortunately. But I work on cyanide and one very stupid student – against all the rules – added acid to a cyanide solution. This gives off poisonous hydrogen cyanide. Luckily we smelt it in time

    • Photo: Natalie Stanford

      Natalie Stanford answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      Thankfully not. There are very good safety practices in place and work. If you follow these you are usually okay.

    • Photo: Emily Cook

      Emily Cook answered on 17 Mar 2010:

      I once electrocuted myself trying to build a power supply for my equipment.

      I thought I had turned it off at the wall when I was tinkering with a wire but I hadn’t. Luckily I had a step down transformer so it wasn’t the whole 240V. I did have a dead arm for a day. I was very stupid and am much more careful now. We have to do risk assessments which are supposed to make everyone aware of the hazards and avoid them I was just particularly dumb that day.

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