Happy Lab PPE Day
June 4th, 2012Today is Laboratory Personal Protective Equipment Day.
Why? Because Chemjobber said so, and that is good enough for me. He even set up a Tumblr for the occasion to make everything official.
This was my contribution to the Lab PPE Day photo album:
That is the Nomex lab coat I wrote about here and my favorite model of safety glasses, N-Specs (Northern Safety, Frankfort, NY). I am also demonstrating the one-glove rule, which I wish more chemists would heed, but I’ve already ranted on that subject.
In lab-coat-related news, Thursday is the deadline that a judge has set for Patrick Harran and prosecutors to reach a plea agreement in the case surrounding the death of Sheri Sangji. This process has dragged on for months, and the judge seems to have become fed up with granting delays of Harran’s arraignment. If a plea agreement is not reached, the case would probably move to trial.
June 4th, 2012 at 12:30 PM
Teh sex.
You has it.
June 4th, 2012 at 4:51 PM
I agree — that’s one of the more striking pictures/poses of Paul I’ve seen.
June 4th, 2012 at 7:12 PM
Did someone spill some hexanoic acid in your lab or something? You look like you’re smelling something very unpleasant.
June 5th, 2012 at 6:37 AM
“What are you doing here? Why aren’t you at your bench?”
June 5th, 2012 at 7:49 AM
You look like an avenger about to open a closet with Loki inside it. You make an excellent case for including a chemist in the sequel.
June 6th, 2012 at 3:38 PM
open the door !
June 11th, 2012 at 2:01 PM
“LOS ANGELES (KABC) — An arraignment hearing for a UCLA professor in a deadly fire at the school was postponed on Thursday. Patrick Harran’s hearing was delayed to July 13 in connection with a lab fire that killed staff research assistant Sheri Sangji. The fire happened in Harran’s lab in December 2008. Harran is accused of failing to correct unsafe work conditions that led to his assistant’s death. He faces up to four years in prison if convicted.”