Gallery of caution signs at Parc

killdeer

#1 – 9:45 AM June 30, 2009

Just a note. If I try and use some of the tags on this post (and several others) they give me an error 403.

Example...

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"Forbidden
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Joel Johnson

#2 – 10:40 AM June 30, 2009

Yeah, tags are broken at the moment, but they won't be soon. Sorry for the wait!

muteboy

#3 – 11:13 AM June 30, 2009

I love those safety showers. I saw a guy use one once when working at a water treatment plant. He got splashed with what could have been a solution of chlorine, so under the shower he went. It wasn't chlorine, it turned out, but rather freezing cold and soaked than injured.

Ito Kagehisa

#4 – 12:09 PM June 30, 2009

When I was young, somebody pulled the safety shower in the High School chem lab. The drain was plugged up from decades of disuse, and the shower valve refused to turn off... eventually the drop-ceiling of the classroom below collapsed.

Afterwards it was called the unsafety shower.

Heath

#5 – 1:37 PM June 30, 2009

Here's one I found in my hotel room last night. I just love the vague, but generally cheerful nature of it - http://twitpic.com/8u117

galaxyglue

#6 – 6:27 PM June 30, 2009

Pretty typical lab signage.
That many people find this interesting, reminds me i need to get more of my non-labby friends to come on tours at work!
Scientists and engineers, spread the love.

Fyi.
Those lab showers are *designed* to run for a certain amount of time - usually 15 minutes, iirc. So it's not funny to pull that handle.

JB

#7 – 6:38 PM June 30, 2009

Hiding on a bench or corner wall of every laser lab I've ever been in there's at least one small sign reading "do not stare into laser with remaining eye"

voiceofreason

#8 – 7:11 AM July 1, 2009

There are WAY more interesting warning signs around MIT. I am particularly a fan of the ones near the "High Temperature Corrosion Laboratory."

pupdog

#9 – 8:49 AM July 1, 2009

I spent a week working a contract job at a large Biotech firm. Delivering a PC setup to labs with 'Danger/Biohazard/Contagion Risk/Radiation/CHUDS/etc' was cool for the first 20 minutes or so.

Big bins of free dry ice in the elevator lobbies were pretty sweet though...