Faculty of Science

Good Laboratory Behaviour
Provider: Department of Chemistry

Activity no.: 5786-25-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 20/08/2025

Place

Frederiksberg Campus
Bülowsvej 17, 1870 Frederiksberg C

Date and time

25.08.2025, at: 00:00 - 29.08.2025, at: 00:00

Regular seats

ECTS credits

1.00

Contact person

Jørn Bolstad Christensen E-mail address: jbc@chem.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser

Jørn Bolstad Christensen E-mail address: jbc@chem.ku.dk

Teaching language

English

Grading scale

Passed / Not passed

Criteria for exam assessment

Based on a running evaluation of the effort

Course workload

Course workload category	Hours
Theoretical exercises	17.50
Lectures	10.00

Sum	27.50

Content

The course is an introduction to laboratory work and how to incorporate laboratory safety into the daily work

Enrolment guidelines

The course is an introduction to laboratory work and how to incorporate laboratory safety into the daily work

The course is intended to give the participants an introduction to Good Laboratory Behavior, which is essential for being able to obtain reproducible and trustworthy research results in the laboratory.
Good Laboratory Behavior is following common guidelines including taking responsibility for safety and correct handling of chemicals, biologicals and equipment.
Day 1: 2 hours lecture + 3.5 hours theoretical exercise.
The course starts with a general overview of typical and important issues encountered in laboratory work i.e. safety regulations for handling chemicals, biologicals, equipment. This will be common for all.
The theoretical exercises will be case studies, where the students working in small groups are presented with a case (could be an accident, planning of lab work), that they have to solve.
The solutions will then be discussed in the class.

Day 2 -Day 5: Lectures on specialized topics that can be (depending on the fields of interest among the students) : Safe upscaling of experiments in the chemistry lab, Safety in microwave experiments,
Safety in cryogenic experiments (large vacuum vessels, power electronics in vacuum, handling cryoliquids), Safe and proper operation of pumps, Safety in trouble-shooting of ground loops and electromagnetic interference, Basic safety principles of electric apparatus, Basic safety in quantum device fabrication, Safety in experiments with lasers, Centrifuges, Handling of gases, Magnetic fields, Working in a LAF-bench, GMO.

Formal requirements

The course is for new PhD-students, and they will have to provide information on the field of natural science where they are going to work. In this way, we can tailor the distribution between the different topics to fit to the actual need. The deadline for registration is May 1st

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

•Possess an understanding of the fundamental safety aspects of working in a lab.

Skills:

•Being able to plan laboratory work in a way that minimizes the risk of accidents.

Competences:

•Must be able to plan and carry out research and development tasks in complex and unpredictable contexts.

Target group

Newly started PhD-students doing experimental laboratory work in Chemistry, Biology and Physics

Teaching and learning methods

Lectures giving an overview of a topic followed by theoretical exercises, where the students will work in groups analyzing cases (real life or constructed) and identifying potential causes of an accident or potential risks in a planned experiment.

Remarks

The students must have been found qualified for a PhD-position in one of the relevant areas (Chemistry, Biology or Physics)

Guest lecturers will be invited for special topics if necessary (based on the input from the student’s registration

There is no course fee for KU-students.

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