Coordination between Lab Technician and Teaching Staff
Enquire from the technicians how they interact and coordinate with the teaching staff with regard to the following information about the experiments/demonstration to be conducted:
1) Type of activity (experiment/demonstration)
2) No. of students
3) Requirements for the experiment/demonstration
4) Chemicals/material needed
5) Advance procurement of materials needed
6) Preparations to be made by the lab staff
For this, you should also find out how many days (a weeM2 weeks/ a month) before do the teaching staff inform the technician about the details of experiment/demonstration to be conducted, and how this information is recorded. If the information is recorded in a register/notebook then request each technician to show you one such page and note down the manner in which the information is recorded. Does it give broad details such as concentrations and volumes of solutions required or minute details regarding preparation of solutions as well? Also note if the recording is done by the academic staff or do they just verbally .inform the technician who records the instructions himself herself by actually noting down the requirements.