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In your career, have you witnessed or been involved in a laboratory exposure incident involving a hazardous agent?
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- Yes, but I do not know how it was handleduser-418876It was related to a fungal infection from exotic species.
- Nouser-144735no experience
- Nouser-568782I have been a laboratory worker, but I have not managed such a case of laboratory exposure.
- Yes, but I do not know how it was handleduser-156283The incidence took place in a research and teaching laboratory and I undertook the cleanup but don't know how it was handled by the head and higher authority. In my own case, there was zero risk to people outside the laboratory.
- Nouser-564030I have worked extensively in laboratory settings, but I have not personally witnessed or been involved in a hazardous laboratory exposure incident.
- Yes, but I do not know how it was handleduser-843961In India, BSL2/3 infrastructures are mostly absent in the laboratories of premier institutes. During PhD, I have witnessed students using same incubator for culturing pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria due to lack of infrastructure. I have witnessed negligible good lab practices which includes cleaning of working area post-working, using same homogenizer for deadly cervical cancer samples and other samples and even the authorities NOT providing even gloves to the students/workers collecting HIV-TB patient blood. Students are NOT allowed to speak up. Mentors/supervisors cover up in fear of punishment. Authorities do NOT care how these cases are handled until and unless they are exposed somehow.
- I have not worked in a laboratory settinguser-877543N/A
- Yes, but I do not know how it was handleduser-111146I know a few chemical incident exposures happened in the lab, but I'm not really sure how they were handled. I only heard about following stricter safety procedures after the incident.
- Nouser-565253My research primarily focuses on computational modeling, deep learning, bioinformatics, and embedded hardware systems rather than the direct wet-lab handling of Biosafety Level 3/4 biological pathogens.
- Yes, and it was reported through formal channelsuser-857064I only witnessed such incidents indirectly but the entire response and formal reporting process were handled in a textbook manner.
- Nouser-397766I have witnessed a co worker getting scalds when he opened an autoclave before allowing it to cool off. But this incident does not involve a biological hazardous agent
- Nouser-191973Throughout our working experience in academic laboratories in Yemen, our work has been focused on standard testing procedures. Although resources in our laboratory are limited, following standard routine safety measures and materials have helped avoid major hazardous exposure incidents during my shifts.
- Yes, and it was reported through formal channelsuser-596421It involved potential exposure to Neisseria meningitidis which was an incidental finding after specimen manupulation. Appropriate notification was done and staff were give prophylaxis. Through a root cause analysis, the lab installed a biohazard cabinet for handling specimens.
- Nouser-64198Throughout my career, I have had the opportunity to work in various laboratories across different countries, and I have never witnessed or been involved in any laboratory exposure incident.
- Nouser-476907No such bio hazard ever witnessed..
- Nouser-924831No such mejor incident, I have gone through
- Nouser-139009I haven't seen an incidence like that and I was very lucky in my life.
- Nouser-295973No. I have never been exposed or witnessed in a laboratory incident involving a human hazardous agent.
- Nouser-508016Handling and disposal of hazardous substances followed a standard protocol in every laboratory where I have worked.
- Nouser-566604I am working in the laboratory but no hazared was happened
- Yes, and it was handled informally or not reporteduser-456501Etbr fell in my eye when I tried to open the microcentrifuge tube.
- Yes, and it was handled informally or not reporteduser-646324I have been involved in a laboratory exposure incident involving a hazardous agent, with conc sulphuric acid and Iodine vapor in organic reaction intermediate but not reported.