Guides: Laboratory Operations: Laboratory Safety

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Laboratory Safety for Chemistry Students "...this substantial and engaging text offers a wealth of practical (in every sense of the word) advice...Every undergraduate laboratory, and, ideally, every undergraduate chemist, should have a copy of what is by some distance the best book I have seen on safety in the undergraduate laboratory." Chemistry World, March 2011 Laboratory Safety for Chemistry.

Chemicals - More Information on Chemicals Workplaces are full of chemicals and chemical substances. Some chemicals are 'hazardous' others are 'dangerous'. There is specific legislation covering both 'hazardous substances' and 'dangerous goods' - but employers have a duty to ensure that the use, handling, storage and transport of all chemical substances is safe and without risks to health.
Dangerous or Hazardous? What's the difference? Hazardous substances are classified based only on health effects (whether they are immediate or long term), while dangerous goods are classified according to their immediate physical or chemical effects, such as fire, explosion, corrosion and poisoning, affecting property, the environment or people.
Radiation - Air Quality Standard On the 30th of January 2020, VTHC launched a new standard, highlighting the link between workers health and air quality, as well as what employers and HSRs can do proactively to keep workers safe from poor air quality.

USCSB - Safety videos This 24-minute video focuses on three serious laboratory accidents: the death of a lab research assistant in 2008 in a flash fire at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); a death by accidental poisoning of a highly regarded Dartmouth College professor in 1997; and a 2010 explosion at Texas Tech University (TTU) that severely injured a graduate student, who lost three fingers in the blast and suffered eye damage. For other safety videos by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, click the link.