Students need to be utmost cautious while carrying out experiments

Updated on: Thursday, April 05, 2012

It's highly imperative for students carrying out research and laboratory work, that they maintain utmost caution to avoid fatal and irreversible damages.

In the recent past, several events of fatalities have been reported while students were carrying out research and other experimental works. Due to its feeble nature of fatalities some even go unreported.

Safety and caution should be given primary importance while involving in such activities.

In a recent gruesome incident reported from a laboratory in Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Kovai, revealed the death of C. Sreejana, a 27-year-old student when her dupatta got entangled in the belt of a machine in the laboratory.

C Sreejana, an MSc student of Soil Science and hailing from Kathmandu, was doing her research work when the incident happened last night.

It was reported that the girl was working alone in laboratory and that it was her routine way of doing her experiments.

Students carrying out experimental activities should have a proper guide beside them or at least a colleague to help in terms of any emergencies.

Hence, students must take from such incidents that security and safety is the prime priority even while doing academic exercises.

Faculty members should make it a point that students are working within safety parameters, be it college level in labs or primary level with mathematical instruments.

Students need to be utmost cautious while carrying out experiments

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