Meeting the tigers of the lab

Tiger jumping through speech bubble

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Practical teaching strikes a balance between removing hazards and learning to respect them

There’s one issue in chemistry teaching that has never gone away, because it has never really been resolved: how dangerous does it have to be? There are many options that could avoid various hazards, but there is also value in teaching how to assess and mitigate them and reduce risk