The main purpose of the white lab coat is as follows:

1.    To protect oneself from being affected by a bad lab accident that will injure one’s skin or internally.
2.    This white lab coat is usually full handed to protect oneself from lab accidents pertaining to chemicals
3.    To protect one’s clothes so that it doesn’t get affected due to various foreign particles like chalk and dust etc.
4.    Researchers pertaining from biotech or other chemical industry wear it. It is also used in the quality check department of any manufacturing industry.

These white coats carry a lot of pride and prestige with them as they have been into usage for centuries now of doctors of various medical educations. Only in the recent past the students of various disciplines especially of sciences are using these coats. This coat was brought into the profession medicine in Canada. They started wearing these white coats to bring uniformity and uniqueness. It also made them look so orderly and gave them a uniform like in every other profession that was available those days.

In a recent survey it was brought to notice doctors wearing pure white coats were more preferable by the sick ones. This white coat started conveying a message of trust, power, responsibility and respect. They show orderliness and purity.

These coats have psychological impact on the people who use it and on the people who see it. For the people who wear the coat it brings pride and prestige along with responsibility and royalty. For the people who see others wearing it they feel trust, zeal to respect and listen to the other. These coats raise the enthusiasm level in the students and make them feel the responsibility in them for the purpose of involving in research and development which would again help in the development of their nation.