While science labs can be dangerous places, schools can take several steps to prevent accidents, experts say. Those measures include: Limiting class sizes. Accidents rise dramatically along with 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 ...

Each student will receive two copies of the "Laboratory Safety" and "Eye Safety and Medical Information" sheet (attached,. They must read the colored copy, sign it (indicating their planned compliance ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — The University of Utah says it’s implementing changes after state auditors highlighted what they called a “broken” system for keeping labs safe. The university has more than ...

What are Academic Lab Safety Teams? LSTs, or Laboratory Safety Teams, are student-led groups that play a pivotal role in promoting a strong safety culture within their respective laboratories, ...

In December 2014, two monkeys in outdoor cages at the Tulane National Primate Research Center, about 40 miles north of New Orleans, became ill with Burkholderia pseudomallei, a deadly bacterium in the ...

The chemistry lab incident at the University of Delaware on Feb. 8 that prompted the evacuation of several buildings around The Green began with a mistake. But thanks to a student’s knowledge of ...

Welcome to the Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS). This section highlights the Committee's activities and provides administrative resources for its members. Our primary activities include: Publication ...

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