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 ...

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 ...

Baltimore County Public Schools audits released earlier this month found that work orders for safety-related equipment in science labs are not resolved promptly enough and decision files for ...

Corrected: This story misidentifies the alternative name for methanol. The liquid is also called methyl alcohol. The lab demonstration was going smoothly, as it had earlier in the day, until methyl ...

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 ...

Environmental Health & Safety annually presents one Excellence in Laboratory Safety Award to a University faculty member and their research group for exhibiting excellence in laboratory safety and ...

OSHA, recognizing the unique characteristics of the laboratory workplace, has tailored a standard for occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in laboratories. This standard is often referred to ...