Laboratories are home to a wide variety of flammable and combustible liquids—making fire, chemical, and thermal burns relatively common accidents in this environment. For instance, in 2008, a research ...

Environmental Health & Safety (EH&S) has traditionally relied on a fixed air changes per hour (ACH) approach to ensure safety in laboratory and research settings. Unfortunately, this method ...

In May a laboratory worker at the University of Kentucky was exposed to the bacterium that causes bubonic plague when an autoclave bag leaked. Two months later, a researcher at the University of ...

(a) “Laboratory/Technical Area”: A laboratory/technical area is any location where hazardous materials or equipment may present a potential hazard are used or stored. It includes, but is not limited ...

Below you will find safety information for students in undergraduate chemistry laboratory courses. All students taking laboratory courses in the Chemistry Department must: Read this information. Read ...

Despite high-profile laboratory accidents in the past several years, including one that was fatal, a laboratory safety survey conducted last summer indicates that significant numbers of research labs ...

Assessments of environmental health and safety conditions in the University of Nevada, Reno laboratories will be conducted on a regular and continuing basis in order to evaluate compliance with ...

The Korey Stringer Institute (KSI) at the University of Connecticut (UConn) has unveiled a new state-of-the-art facility to ...

For the 16th time in a row, the IAEA’s Radiation Safety Technical Services (RSTS) Laboratory received recognition of the highest level of quality of its radiation monitoring through compliance ...

The doors to laboratories utilizing hazardous equipment, toxic or flammable chemicals—and the doors to hazardous materials storage rooms—must be posted with an emergency response sign listing the ...

“Assessing Safety” presents the results of a survey of academic chemistry departments on safety training and evaluation and concludes that the results are somewhat confusing, albeit generally positive ...