There were dangerous training deficiencies in high altitude astronomy.

The training was so bad in high altitude astronomy that senior managers were feeding blatantly false information into their workers that was leading to them inadvertently damaging their long term health.

I never received any management training in how occupational poisoning affects the performance of workers and their mental health.

I worked for Dartmouth College where Karen Wetterhahn was killed by mercury poisoning. I never received any industry recognized training in handling mercury systems and also ended up with nasty mercury poisoning.

Despite being required to work on mercury systems, the management team never sent me on an industry recognized mercury training course and I ended up with nasty mercury poisoning.

The serious lack of industry recognized training on biologically toxic systems was truly shocking in high altitude astronomy.

The entire astronomical observatory team were installing a mercury argon spectral lamp (HgAr) during a training session when one of the workers smashed the mercury filled spectral lamp. We continued the training session with a new mercury spectral lamp from stock. A week later I was at the doctors complaining of a variety of health conditions that were classic mercury poisoning.