Evaluating and Promoting Chemical Safety Awareness in the Chemical Sciences

Abstract

To create general awareness among students and assess their level of chemical safety knowledge and attitudes, an online chemical safety survey was completed by chemistry students at Jai Hind Educational Trust's (JET's), Z.

Determination of University Students’ Laboratory Safety Awareness: A Cross-Sectional Study

“…According to the table, 213 respondents had fair or poor awareness of laboratory safety, which represents 63.58% of the overall sample size. A large number of students are at both fair and poor levels of laboratory safety awareness, which is similar to the findings of most researchers. ,,,, …”

“…This result may be explained by the fact that students frequently underestimate the dangers that can arise in laboratories and the significance of adhering to safety rules. 30,38 This result is similar to the results of other studies in which attitudes toward laboratory safety upon entering the laboratory stem from the perception of the nature of different potential hazards. 38,57 Table S33 (see Section 4 in the SI for details) displays the laboratory safety attitude scores of university students.…”

“…The range of OR values in the table is 5.382–8.037; this means that enhancing any one of these 4 variables will improve students’ awareness of laboratory safety by at least 5.382 times. Therefore, university administrators should pay more attention to the training of students in these 4 aspects to improve their awareness of laboratory safety, similar to previous researchers’ views. ,,, …”

“…A large number of students are at both fair and poor levels of laboratory safety awareness, which is similar to the findings of most researchers. 22,30,46,53,69 Based on the distribution of laboratory safety awareness levels in the table, Spearman correlation analysis was applied to judge the correlation of the 4 variables (GHS pictograms, attitudes, practices, and emergency equipment and procedures) with students' laboratory safety awareness. Judgments to determine whether the null hypothesis (no statistically significant correlation between GHS pictograms, attitudes, practices, emergency equipment and procedures, and students' awareness of laboratory safety) should be accepted (if p-value >0.05) or rejected (if p-value ≤0.05) are shown in Table S36 (see Section 4 in the SI for details).…”

“…72 Therefore, university administrators should pay more attention to the training of students in these 4 aspects to improve their awareness of laboratory safety, similar to previous researchers' views. 30,38,39,53 ■…”