Prioritizing lab safety strengthens workplace culture, boosts confidence and productivity, and reduces absenteeism and operational downtime.

When a high containment laboratory handling lethal pathogens stumbles, even briefly, it exposes how much of the country’s ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...

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 ...

A decade after the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) was signed into law, the FDA’s final rule on Laboratory Accreditation for Analyses of Foods (LAAF) for a laboratory accreditation program for ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

The following applies to any laboratory equipment items that are used in a laboratory for the purposes of research. This also includes any item that presents an exposure hazard to non-laboratory ...

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 ...

An unorganized, cluttered laboratory increases the likelihood of chemical spills and splashes due to tripping or knocking over chemical containers. Safety equipment such as fire extinguishers, safety ...

Several of my academic friends and associates have criticized me for being critical of them and their approach to safety. Ironic to use criticism to condemn criticism. But to me, I was not being ...

Cal Lutheran’s Laboratory Safety program oversees safety and compliance in all research and teaching laboratories to minimize the risks of injury, illness, property loss, and environmental damage. The ...

The University Safety Manual gives an overview of Flammable Liquids in Laboratories And Chemical Storage Rooms, Chemical Laboratories, Radiation Producing Equipment and Materials, Biological ...