The Environmental Health and Safety department within Purdue Administrative Operations is partnering with the Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association in recognizing Lab Safety ...

This week’s post is in response to an issue raised via the confidential post box. The questioner wondered, as one of two principle questions, whether laboratory safety fell into the category of an ...

A fire at one university that led to a researcher’s death and an explosion at another that seriously injured a graduate student are among several incidents in the past few years that have turned a ...

The department’s safety plan serves to protect health and life, the environment, the campus and local communities, and property. The safety plan outlines steps to manage risk and prevent accidents in ...

Myriam Vidal Valero is a freelance journalist from Mexico. In August 2016, Margaret Braasch-Turi began her graduate studies in the department of chemistry at Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort ...

In order to ensure that laboratory activities are conducted safely, and in compliance with environmental health and safety regulations, all laboratory activities must be conducted under the ...

When the novel coronavirus first hit, academic, industrial, and government laboratories around the world faced a string of tough operating decisions and little time to make them. Some shut down, some ...

Within the aged labyrinth of the Molecular Sciences Building in South Campus, a painful memory still resonates ““ one that prompted revisions in laboratory safety at UCLA in recent years. Andrew Lech ...

A comprehensive safety program requires training, constant vigilance, and incident reporting and documentation systems—all with an eye toward critical review and continuous improvement. The Prevent ...

Following the rapid innovation, creation and distribution of a vaccine for COVID-19, there is no question that the work done in labs is important. Each day, scientists and researchers are making ...

The Environmental Health & Safety department, part of Research & Innovation at the University of Nevada, Reno, is one of the first in the nation to provide a campus lab space dedicated solely to ...