Laboratory Safety and Health

Learn best practices to minimize personal injury, health impairment, property loss, regulatory fines, and liability in your laboratory. You’ll receive an overview of the practical and latest regulatory measures for the prevention of accidents, incidents, or exposures that may cause health impairment, injury, fire, or interfere with your laboratory operations.

Key topics include:

• Regulations that pertain to laboratories,
• Safe handling and storage of chemicals,
• Laboratory Safety Management, focusing on leading indicators rather than trailing indicators or “just complying” with the law.

Many attendees report that this course has improved the recognition of their valuable safety and health responsibilities with their peers and management. 

Special Notes:

Registrants are invited to bring case histories, problem descriptions, and safety program material for evaluation and discussion.

What You Will Learn

• Understand which regulation is more applicable to the attendee’s worksite: Lab Standard or Hazard Communication
• Understand how to prevent lab accidents
• Understand how to handle a bad situation, if one occurs
• Understand the effectiveness and limitations of: elimination of hazards, engineering controls, administrative controls, and lastly personal protective equipment
• Do you ZAP (invigorate) your Safety and Health Program or do you SAP it (drain the energy)? 

Who Should Attend

Laboratory and pilot plant employees responsible for safety and health issues (e.g., lab managers, lab supervisors, scientists or technical assistants). 

Full- or part-time Chemical Hygiene Officers (CHOs), Safety/Health/Industrial Hygiene Professionals or Coordinators, Hazard Assessment or Audit Team Leaders, Trainers and those who are accountable for similar lab safety and health activities.