The Korea University (KU) Safety and Security Team announced that May is the month where the compulsory safety education needs to be taken by the subjected school members. The recipients of the education include undergraduates, graduates, researchers and research assistants who study or work at the laboratories with materials that can possibly induce dangerous situations.

The KU Safety and Security Team has posted a notice on the portal website, with the information that includes the list of high and low risk recipients. It is also written that they have sent out e-mails and SMS text messages for the members exposed to high-risk laboratory environment, particularly asking them to take the mandatory safety education.

The list of high-risk or legally mandatory recipients includes students or researchers from colleges such as College of Life Sciences and Biotechnology, College of Natural Sciences, and College of Engineering. Members affiliated with College of Liberal Arts, who are participants of experimental training and research papers, are required to take the safety education session also.

The measure for the safety education includes two parts. The online safety education that can be taken through the KU Safety and Security Team website and a five-minute independent safety education that is to be conducted by professors or teacher’s assistants in laboratory classes before experiments. The online component of the safety education requires watching any two video clips from the website and then answering one question following each video clip.

The video clips will be available on kusafe.korea.ac.kr until May 31.

▲ The website of the KU Safety and Security Team. Clicking the “Take Education” tab directs to the page with safety video clips. Provided by kusafe.korea.ac.kr