Laboratory Safety Training
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Image 1: Alvin Samala, center, an industrial hygienist with UCI Environmental Health & Safety, shows third- and fourth-year chemistry students how to properly operate a fume hood.
Image 2: As part of the undergraduate safety training, Matt Cody practices extinguishing propane flames.
Image 3: Students peruse lab safety handouts in preparation for the class.
Image 4: Volunteer Stephen Sasaki demonstrates what students should do if chemicals - represented by whipped cream - get in or near their eyes.
Image 5: Sasaki, in turn, prepares chemistry professor William Evans for a contamination simulation.
Image 6: To everyone's amusement, Professor Evans is doused under a safety shower.
Image 7: Students delight in ensuring that all traces of "contaminant" have been removed from Evans.
Image 8: Evans agrees to be drenched quarterly in the interest of student safety.
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