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    Incidents in Educational and Academic Chemistry Laboratories: A Comparative Case Study Project

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    Sommer, Stella Julia
    Abstract
    For this thesis, eleven published case studies of laboratory incidents that involved hazardous chemicals and occurred at primary educational and academic institutions were compared. The important information on the incident settings was used to construct bowtie diagrams. This visual method served as a helpful tool to find similarities and differences of the incidents. Common themes between the different cases were lack of supervision, lack of training, deviation from established procedures, and an inadequate or delayed emergency response. Failing barriers provided several pathways for the incidents to occur. Therefore, hierarchical risk management models could not adequately accommodate dynamic teaching environments. The results of this project show that primary educational and academic facilities need to make improvements to their risk management systems and work operations. Laboratory incidents continue to occur at a high frequency. Therefore, effective methods on how to teach chemical health and safety and how to communicate occupational risk need to be developed.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7642
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    Bowtie Diagrams
    Date
    2019-12-10
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    Sommer, Stella Julia. (December 2019). Incidents in Educational and Academic Chemistry Laboratories: A Comparative Case Study Project (Master's Thesis, East Carolina University). Retrieved from the Scholarship. (http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7642.)

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    Sommer, Stella Julia. Incidents in Educational and Academic Chemistry Laboratories: A Comparative Case Study Project. Master's Thesis. East Carolina University, December 2019. The Scholarship. http://hdl.handle.net/10342/7642. March 02, 2021.
    Chicago:
    Sommer, Stella Julia, “Incidents in Educational and Academic Chemistry Laboratories: A Comparative Case Study Project” (Master's Thesis., East Carolina University, December 2019).
    AMA:
    Sommer, Stella Julia. Incidents in Educational and Academic Chemistry Laboratories: A Comparative Case Study Project [Master's Thesis]. Greenville, NC: East Carolina University; December 2019.
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