LABORATORY SAFETY AND INSPECTION PROCEDURES - AN IN-SERVICE FORMAT

Courts have altered the role of the science teacher. This role means the continued upgrading of safety expectations and the elimination of experiments that may contain hazards not worth taking. This half day of training provided teachers with an understanding of some of the more common safety problems found in their own classrooms. The success of the workshop could be measured by the fact that teachers went back to their own classrooms, found safety hazards, and corrected them. Hopefully, the workshop changed the very way these teachers approached the whole issue of laboratory safety. Teachers are not exempt from legal responsibility for damages occurring from their own judgment errors.