Safe Use of Chemicals at Lab

'Practice should start at school'

16 October 2010, 18:00 PM

DU Correspondent

Beginning users of laboratories should be made aware to avoid accidents and long-term harms of chemicals, speakers told a workshop yesterday. They said the practice of using laboratory safely should start from school level when students embark on laboratory experiments. If trained properly during that period, students are expected to remain alert in their professions while handling chemicals. The speakers at the inaugural session of a four-day workshop on safe laboratory use at Dhaka University cautioned that the unconscious use of laboratory can critically harm health and the environment. Dhaka University Vice-chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique, as the chief guest, urged the government to make a law regarding collecting and storing of chemicals in the country. The recent devastating fires at Nimtoli and Jatrabari, which were basically intensified by combustible chemicals, pointed finger to more carefulness in using chemicals. Chemists from different government and private institutions and research centres are participating the workshop at Khandaker Mokarram Hossain Science Building at DU. Bangladesh Society for Pharmaceutical Professionals (BSPP) and the Institute of Chemists and Chemical Technologists, Bangladesh (ICCTB) arranged the workshop. Prof Arefin inaugurated the workshop while chairman of ICCTB Prof M Muhibur Rahman presided over the inaugural session. BSPP General Secretary Javed Yeayah and Chairman of Chemistry Department Prof Tazmeri SA Islam of DU were also present.

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