'Safety first' seems to be the motto of every organization that conducts research in chemistry, but seldom in academia does one encounter a department that backs the statement with action. Rather, ...

Online retraining is done through your Canvas dashboard. Laboratory Safety training fulfills retraining requirements for both Laboratory Standard and the use of regulated chemicals such as benzene, ...

The following prudent biosafety practices are recommended by the National Academy of Sciences in the publication Biosafety in the Laboratory and in part constitute basic good biosafety practices.

Ensuring student safety in undergraduate teaching laboratories is a critical component of the responsibilities of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). It is very difficult for ...

LABORATORY SAFETY is a concern for all chemists, but it takes on a whole new meaning when one is synthesizing highly energetic or explosive materials. What exactly happened in the lab that day is ...

The Office of Environmental Health and Safety is planning to transition from its online safety training interface to a new system with expanded features, said Stephen Morin, director of the Office of ...

Ultraviolet (UV) light is a form of non-ionizing radiation. It has many uses at the University of Massachusetts Lowell from sterilization to curing certain glues or plastics. The health effects of UV ...