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| Oct 16, 2016 at 18:31 | comment | added | Pete L. Clark | @Mehrdad: Sure. In fact, between an undergraduate who has been working in the lab for three years and a first or second year graduate student, only after very careful vetting of backgrounds would it make sense to trust the graduate student as much as the undergrad. Students do not magically become more responsible upon being conferred a bachelor's degree! | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 8:21 | comment | added | user541686 | You know, there's no real difference (in terms of experience) between a 1st-year graduate student and a 4th-year undergrad student that would justify trusting the former with lab equipment and not the latter... | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 8:08 | comment | added | Frames Catherine White | Understand that the word "Lab" does not always mean a place where chemical or mechanical experiments are done. For example my lab is a computer lab. Other people work in a electronics lab, where they only work with <5v signals investigating new logic controllers. Further the word lab does not refer exclusively to the part of the area where experiments are done. For example my friend who works in chemistry will say "I am going in to the Lab, to write up my results." He isn't going anywhere near chemicals, but to where his PC is -- in a totally separate room (but attached with 2 locking doors) | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 7:43 | comment | added | Mayou36 | Even though I have been working for over three years with him seems to be not long to you? He has even be left alone (see the comments), so that is clearly not the problem here. Also, you are right about a certain amount of safety issue, but that's a thing you have everywhere. Even a cook can burn things down if left alone... But to a certain amount, there is trust and expected responsibility. Those two things are especially high in academia (as also seen in his question) and are opposite to your answer... | |
| Oct 16, 2016 at 5:07 | comment | added | Cape Code | if you do care for the safety of your students, you will not make it in the cutthroat competition we call academia. I personally know many counter examples. I think that this sentence is wildly exaggerated. | |
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| Oct 16, 2016 at 3:55 | history | answered | safetyguy | CC BY-SA 3.0 |