My sister in law is a bioengineer and used to work in a molecular biology laboratory in Moscow, Russia. I know that they had all personal protective tools for protecting themselves against toxic chemical exposures. Luckily, scientists are quite professional and know enough about the importance of personal protection and most of the time follow safety rules strictly. However, I believe one of the risk factors for them, in this case, is neglect as the most common human factor. Therefore, the only one thing I may recommend to strengthen protection is reinforcing control over workers wearing all necessary personal protection equipment. For instance, as we talked in class, sometimes people tend to neglect wearing respirators because it is not comfortable. I think we may also consider double checking the ventilation and workplace conditions.I think regarding barriers the main factor is the expensiveness of personal protection equipment, which makes it not available for individual purchase. As I know, sometimes workplace equipment may be old. IThus, ensuring that protective tools work well and are up-to-date (comfortable and wearable) may help to ensure lab workers safety.
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