Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) is partnering with the Campus Safety, Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA) to recognize Lab Safety Awareness Week, taking place Feb. 9–13.

Although it is currently focused on undergraduate colleges and universities in New Hampshire, free introductory safety training courses at LabSafetyWorkspace.org are open to researchers anywhere. The ...

Ensuring student safety in undergraduate teaching laboratories is a critical component of the responsibilities of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). It is very difficult for ...

The following prudent biosafety practices are recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in the publication Biosafety in the Laboratory and in part constitute basic good biosafety practices.

So what is the site about? STAR-LITE is a game designed to teach basic laboratory safety to researchers at the start of their careers; the name is an acronym of Safe Techniques Advance Research – ...

'Safety first' seems to be the motto of every organization that conducts research in chemistry, but seldom in academia does one encounter a department that backs the statement with action. Rather, ...

Establishing rules, programs, and policies for laboratory safety and security is of no value if organizational leaders do not enforce them and if laboratory managers and workers do not follow them.