• Question: what do you have to wear when you are doing a science project

    Asked by deed520tuft on 26 Mar 2025.
    • Photo: Hannah Blyth

      Hannah Blyth answered on 26 Mar 2025:

      Closed shoes (no sandals or flip flops), gloves, lab coat and sometimes lab goggles/glasses.

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  • Photo: Andrew M

    Andrew M commented on :

    When working in the lab then labcoat, safety glasses and protective boots. Rubber, cotton or heat-proof gloves as needed. When working in the pilot plant then we wear “blues” – uniforms of long sleeved shirts, trousers and safety boots, usually with rubber gloves and sometimes with a bump cap and dust mask- items that don’t leave the pilot plant so we don’t contaminate other parts of plant or our homes and that we don’t mind sacrificing if we need to to protect up. For high hazard tasks we might wear a hard-hat, full body suit, a dust hood and hearing protection.

  • Photo: aprilcridland

    aprilcridland commented on :

    When running the experiment, I usually wear comfortable clothes with jeans (no shorts allowed), safety shoes, a bump cap and a dosimeter (reads the radiation level). When I’m using cryogenic liquids like liquid helium I also use safety glasses and thick gloves.