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A Health and Safety Conundrum

By: CKA (School of Chemical Eng. and Analytical Science)
Competition Year: 2016
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The question is echoing in my head. The safety committee has a problem.
How to compel students to abide and leave the building before nine?
Here’s the story. Revising to be bright, a pregnant lady stayed through the night.
The question is echoing in my head. The health committee does not understand.
How without Why is senseless. And the Why is guileless. No choice.
At home, she has responsibilities, a family to care for kindly.
More, a conspiracy means resit is beyond her visa expiry.
She cannot fail the test. It would be a disgrace, a deadly infamy.
So she stays.

The question is echoing in my head. The safety committee has a problem.
How to compel researchers to abide and leave the building before nine?
Here’s the story. Experimenting as one might, a scholar stayed through the night.
The question is echoing in my head. The health committee does not understand.
How without Why is senseless. And the Why is guileless. No choice.
At work, he has responsibilities, fast delivery of novelty.
More, the study has to be ended before his funding expiry.
He cannot stop the test. It would be a waste, a lost discovery.
So he stays.

The question is echoing in my head. The safety committee has a problem.
How to compel people to abide and leave the building before nine?
Here’s the untold story. Discussing the matters, the committee is partly researchers.
The questions are echoing in my head. The other half would not understand.
How without Why is senseless. And the Why is guileless. We do not have the choice.
Policies are nice and shiny but some goals are contradictory.
More, the competition is restless and publishes fiercely.
We won’t leave. Work progress over safety. Here is the reality.
So we stay.
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