To comprehensively improve the laboratory safety management level of our university and enhance the safety prevention awareness and emergency response capabilities of teachers and students, the 12th Laboratory Safety Forum, sponsored by the Department of Assets and Laboratory Management and undertaken by the School of Environment and Energy, was successfully held in Lecture Hall B4-215 of the Environment Building, University Town Campus on the morning of October 30, 2025. With the theme of "Prevent Hazards at the Source, Turn Dangers into Safety", this event attracted the active participation of more than 180 teachers and students from over 10 colleges and departments across the university.

The event focused on two key risk areas: laboratory gas safety and hazardous waste disposal, carrying out special training. In her speech, Chen Yan, Vice Dean of the School of Environment and Energy, emphasized the extreme importance of laboratory safety work, pointing out that strengthening safety education, improving safety awareness, and mastering emergency response skills are important cornerstones for ensuring the life safety of teachers and students and the smooth progress of scientific research and teaching work.

Figure 1: Opening Speech

In the special training session, Professor Wang Jigang from the School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southeast University delivered a special report titled "Risk Identification and Safety Matters of Major Gases in Laboratories". Centering on laboratory gas safety, he gave a systematic and in-depth explanation from accident cases, risk identification, standardized operation to management system, with detailed, vivid and highly practical content.

Figure 2: Special Training on Gas Safety

Manager Jiang Yuwei from Dongguan Xindongxin Environmental Protection Investment Co., Ltd. delivered a speech titled "Guidelines for the Whole-Process Management Service of Hazardous Waste in University Laboratories". From the perspective of a professional disposal enterprise, he elaborated on the key points of the whole-process management of hazardous waste from the source to the end.

After the theoretical training, a practical drill on emergency disposal of hazardous waste leakage was organized on-site, effectively improving the emergency response capabilities of teachers and students in actual operations.

Figure 3: Special Training on Hazardous Waste Disposal and Emergency Drill 

The content of this safety forum was closely combined with the actual situation of the laboratories of our school, integrating various forms such as theoretical explanation of gas safety, analysis of accident cases and on-site practical drills. It effectively enhanced the risk prevention awareness and emergency response capabilities of teachers and students, laying a solid foundation for creating a safer and more standardized teaching and scientific research environment. 

Text & Photos: Huang Cheng

First Review: Chen Li’e; Second

Review: Chen Yan

Final Review: Zhu Nengwu