Electrical Shock During Phone Assisted Troubleshooting of Laboratory Equipment

IF 2.9 Q2 PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH
Emily D. Wright*, Mark A. Rodriguez, Blythe G. Clark, Matthew Fernandez, William Chavez, Vanessa Peters and Mary Beth Mulcahy, 
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Abstract

Researchers have the potential to be exposed to a wide variety of hazards inherent to the equipment they use and maintain. When equipment does not function as expected, researchers sometimes reach out to their vendors for assistance. Early diagnostic or troubleshooting interactions between researcher and vendor are often conducted over the telephone and can lead to researchers performing work outside of their area of expertise and exposure to unknown hazards. This type of interaction significantly contributed to an incident where during diagnostic activities a researcher accidentally contacted, and discharged, a capacitor in an X-ray diffraction instrument. While this incident did not produce a serious injury, if the capacitor discharge path had occurred hand-to-hand across the heart, a serious injury may have been possible.

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电话辅助实验室设备故障排除过程中的电击
研究人员有可能接触到他们使用和维护的设备所固有的各种危险。当设备不能像预期的那样工作时,研究人员有时会向供应商寻求帮助。研究人员和供应商之间的早期诊断或故障排除互动通常是通过电话进行的,这可能导致研究人员在他们的专业领域之外进行工作,并暴露于未知的危险之中。这种类型的相互作用显著地促成了一个事件,即在诊断活动中,一名研究人员意外地接触并放电了x射线衍射仪中的电容器。虽然这一事件没有造成严重的伤害,但如果电容器放电路径发生在心脏上,可能会造成严重的伤害。
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ACS Chemical Health & Safety
ACS Chemical Health & Safety PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH-
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3.10
自引率
20.00%
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63
期刊介绍: The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety focuses on news, information, and ideas relating to issues and advances in chemical health and safety. The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety covers up-to-the minute, in-depth views of safety issues ranging from OSHA and EPA regulations to the safe handling of hazardous waste, from the latest innovations in effective chemical hygiene practices to the courts'' most recent rulings on safety-related lawsuits. The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety presents real-world information that health, safety and environmental professionals and others responsible for the safety of their workplaces can put to use right away, identifying potential and developing safety concerns before they do real harm.
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