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macca
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Hot Equipment

Post by macca »

Morning Brains Trust,

How does everyone go about getting the kids to remove hot beakers full of liquid and tripods to put away? We generally let them cool for a few minutes while they are writing up results; then pack up. We have never had an accident.

Does anyone use heat gloves? one stored at each work station for example. :coffee: :coffee:
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Post by Merilyn1 »

We have silicon hot hands in the labs but they don't get used. They are usually just left to cool down before handling - probably a safer option than trying to handle when they are still hot (even with protective gloves).
If the class goes really over time, I will put the equipment away, but that is rare.
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Anna Z
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Post by Anna Z »

We use these ones, haven't had any issues with them. Often though we tell them to leave the hot gear and we duck in between classes and put away.
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Post by mtg »

Same as everyone else. I do have heat proof gloves and some pracs require them. Heating metal rods if they have to change them for example. Or doing multiple pracs in a row if they have to move stuff.
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Post by RosalieL »

If they are too hot to touch, they are too hot to put away. Ours are left to cool and like Merilyn said, on the rare occasion a class runs overtime and they don’t have time to cool before the lesson ends then I just pack those few things away later. Anything not hot is still required to be packed away by the students unless there has been a major glitch in time management/unforeseen interruptions and I have to pack away more.
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