One of the challenges in lab safety is that the lab setting becomesvery familiar to people who work in it day in and day out. “When you do something over and over, your perception of the risk may change even though the risk itselfdoesn’t change,” says Lawrence M. Gibbs, associate vice provost for EH&S at Stanford. His department tries to use information about incidents to rememberresearchers not to get too comfortable. In that way, hopefully something positive can come out of Sangji’s death. “It was a tragic, tragic incident,” Gibbs says. “We all have to learn from it and use it as reinforcement to help people understand the potential risks of workingwith high-hazard materials in this environment.