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Admin have approved the purchase of the Smeg GW1060. Looking forward to using it!

Thanks for the replies. I'll let you know how things go. :

G'day all, We are looking at purchasing a dishwasher for the prep room and I would be grateful for any info or experiences you can relate or recommendations you can make. One caveat - we aren't interested in the bench top models. Many thanks, Craig Thomas Laboratory Manager Charles La Trobe College

Thanks for all your replies. My recommendation that safety showers be installed looks as though it will be refused. We had an entire new campus built two years ago and I had assumed that such features would be installed. Alas, I was mistaken........

G'day all, Just wondering what the situation is regarding the presence or absence of safety showers in science facilities. I'm particularly interested in facilities that have been built within the last few years and whether safety showers have been included (but installations into older labs would a...

There seemed to be some confusion at my school re the classification, with the result that they were asking the Department for guidance - and the Department itself seemed unclear about the very agreement it had negotiated. I spoke with the AEU and they advised me to email my principal and informally...

If only I knew which teacher it was........no one owned up to it!

I had a fridge containing rats and toads turned off at the powerpoint by an unthinking teacher. They had been using some piece of equipment in the lab in my absence and flicked off the wrong switch, cutting power to the fridge. This happened on a Friday - as I only work here on Tuesdays and Thursday...

Just tried it with a Neodymium Iron Boron magnet on Rice Bubbles floating in a petri dish of water - and it works! According to the nutritional information on the packet there are 3 mg of iron per 30 g serve, so I guess that is enough. :) Has anyone tried this?? A strong magnet (probably neodynium) ...