Although attitudes towards lab safety have grown more positive over the years, some academic researchers still believe that safe lab practices hamper research productivity. The idea is that time spent ...

The public’s view of the scientific endeavor often conjures up stereotypical imagery: a begoggled and lab-coated researcher sitting in a stark room operating ergonomically designed technology. But as ...

A low-angle view of a building. Flower beds are shown in the foreground, with a grassy courtyard surrounding a paved pathway to the building’s entrance. There are four wooden towers along the roofline ...

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 ...

The deaths of two people following a laboratory explosion at a Chinese university in October have raised alarm among researchers. The full circumstances that led to the deaths at the Nanjing ...

The Environmental Health and Safety department within Purdue Administrative Operations is partnering with the Campus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association in recognizing Lab Safety ...

To provide students a hands-on experience with materials, equipment and experimental procedures. To develop the students' ability to work safely in a laboratory environment without risk to themselves ...

Environmental Health and Safety, previously known as Radiological and Environmental Management, participates in Lab Safety Awareness Week each February, sponsored by the Campus Safety, Health, and ...

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 ...

Science classrooms with scientific equipment and supplies should not be used for non-science courses or activities unless the science materials can be stored in a secured area. Laboratory activities ...

Covid might not have come out of a medical research lab, but it raises some urgent questions about how those facilities operate. Credit...Illustration by Rachel Levit Ruiz Supported by By Jon Gertner ...