Academic laboratories should be a safe environment in which one can teach, learn, and conduct research. Sharing a common principle, the prevention of potential accidents and imminent injuries is a fundamental goal of laboratory environments. In addition, academic laboratories are attributed the exceptional responsibility to instill in students the culture of the safety, the basis of risk assessment, and of the exemplification of the prudent practice around energized objects. Undergraduate laboratory assignments may normally be framed based upon the repetition of established experiments and procedures, whereas, academic research laboratories may involve new methodologies and/or apparatus, for which the hazards may not be completely known to the faculty and student researchers. Yet, the academic laboratory should be an environment free of electrical hazards for both routine experiments and research endeavors, and faculty should offer practical inputs and safety-driven insights to academic administration to achieve such a paramount objective. In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges to the electrical safety in modern academic laboratories, where users may be exposed to harmful touch voltages.

Electrical safety of academic laboratories / Araneo, R.; Dehghanian, P.; Mitolo, M.. - (2019), pp. 1-7. (Intervento presentato al convegno 55th IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, I and CPS 2019 tenutosi a Fairmont Palliser Calgary; Canada) [10.1109/ICPS.2019.8733357].

Electrical safety of academic laboratories

Araneo R.;Mitolo M.
2019

Abstract

Academic laboratories should be a safe environment in which one can teach, learn, and conduct research. Sharing a common principle, the prevention of potential accidents and imminent injuries is a fundamental goal of laboratory environments. In addition, academic laboratories are attributed the exceptional responsibility to instill in students the culture of the safety, the basis of risk assessment, and of the exemplification of the prudent practice around energized objects. Undergraduate laboratory assignments may normally be framed based upon the repetition of established experiments and procedures, whereas, academic research laboratories may involve new methodologies and/or apparatus, for which the hazards may not be completely known to the faculty and student researchers. Yet, the academic laboratory should be an environment free of electrical hazards for both routine experiments and research endeavors, and faculty should offer practical inputs and safety-driven insights to academic administration to achieve such a paramount objective. In this paper, the authors discuss the challenges to the electrical safety in modern academic laboratories, where users may be exposed to harmful touch voltages.
2019
55th IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, I and CPS 2019
academic laboratories
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Electrical safety of academic laboratories / Araneo, R.; Dehghanian, P.; Mitolo, M.. - (2019), pp. 1-7. (Intervento presentato al convegno 55th IEEE/IAS Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference, I and CPS 2019 tenutosi a Fairmont Palliser Calgary; Canada) [10.1109/ICPS.2019.8733357].
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