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Hi Krisha,
I work in private school in Collaroy and will be retiring beginning of next year. It will be a full time position. Any thoughts?I have not resigned yet so the position is not available to be advertise.
Lada

I am with you, Smiley.
We do very similar prac. With new national curriculum, there are a lot of new pracs, but some totally unsuitable for yr 7-8.
Example Iodine with alcohol.
What's wrong with oldies but goodies

If its yr 8 I would talk to teacher. We always use safer (or at least recommended) chemicals. If anything goes wrong you would feel terrible.
Yr 10 is almost there, but nit yr8.
I would be very skeptical even using the iodine crystals, as it is also yr11-12chemical.
Good luck

Hi searchie,
any more news on your incident?
Hope you are well and haven't any lasting effect.
Lada

I have same Mardi, two A4 boxes from copy room and place them in my two prep rooms with brush and pan and big sign "BROKEN GLASS". I get large items as well, beakers or tall measuring cylinders

I went through chemwatch ffx and the label for 0.1M lead nitrate was exactly the same with the 3 warning pictograms, but does not have DG9.
Lada

Maybe she means solid CO2(dry ice??)

Thanks David,
that is was we were hoping for, but stainless steel "looks so much better". Yah, while is new. I have an old sink and its rusting due to kids dropping bits of metals in it.
Will push for ceramic

Sorry Rae, second copy of both plus manifest (inventory) of chem store.
Lada

Our cherubs are doing energy from food and were burning some cheerios and one of the kids let out a scream. Yes, there were maggots growing in the cheerios jar, ha ha . try telling them it is against the rules!!
Lada

You and me both, Dime
Lada

We are having our 6 labs refurbished over next xmas break. All teachers would like stainless steal sinks. Any pros or cons??
Thanks
Lada

I do not know about state schools. I work in private school and very first question put to me by inspector last week was :"Can I see your RA and MSDS" Also, where do you keep second copy. HOD said inspector was impressed how quickly I could put my hands on it. So I understand private schoo...

If bucket chemistry is good enough dilute 100ml of ammonia to 900ml of water.
Lada

Well, just to shed some light. I have attended workshop on the new whs system GHS( global harmonized system) and started introducing it here. The labels are different to the old system. The inspector (economics teacher) wanted to see the old labels with colour dots :redcard: . When told this is the ...

I think betadine is iodine based. It is different to mercurochrome

All the very best, make most of it!!
Enjoy retirement, keep some good stuff for me. I will follow at the end of year.
Lada

As above, hot water and detergent

I put them upside down, but I also put the sticky tape around the lid in 4 separate strips with about 3cm gap between them.
Lada

Potassium is banned in NSW schools and lithium is demo only, so our school is using Na only.
Lada