The principle purpose of this Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP) is to define work policies and procedures to help ensure that laboratory employees at Calvin Univerysity will work safely with hazardous ...

Like this puzzle, chemical safety has several pieces that together create the whole picture for working with chemicals in a safe manner. At the center of this puzzle is you, the employee or student.

Many national and international chemical societies have a strong interest in chemical safety and security, and some already have internal committees for safety in place. Those societies in developing ...

The American Chemical Society (ACS) has been committed over the past five years to living its strategic value of Safety in the Chemistry Enterprise by holding ACS Presidential Safety Summits. The ...

Industrial researchers run their labs with much more attention to safety than do academic researchers, or so holds conventional wisdom. Dow Chemical is now tackling that disparity head-on in a pilot ...

The goal of this publication was to provide a protocol for development of standard operating procedures that would serve as a complement to the Chemical Laboratory Safety and Security: A Guide to ...

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, ...

Chemical safety education and robust laboratory safety practices are critical to advancing academic research while safeguarding the health of students, researchers and staff. This field integrates ...

"I got there two hours after the explosion," Kaufman remembers. "The light fixtures had been blown off the ceiling, the windows had been blown out of the room. There had been a lab bench with a ...

Purdue University's Environmental Health and Safety Compliance Policy definitions section states the Chemical and Laboratory Safety Committee was "formed in order to promote safe procurement, handling ...

EHS needs your help in keeping the chemical inventory up-to-date. At the bottom of this page are articles that can provide assistance in helping you get started. If you have any questions, please call ...