Orientation to Laboratory Safety

Course Length: 30 - 45 minutes

Updated Spring 2011

High-impact training covering the essentials of laboratory safety orientation.

A laboratory can be a dangerous place, and with the daily pressures to get things done employees can be tempted to take shortcuts and ignore safety precautions. And with the increasing complexity of the equipment and procedures involved in experiments, employees need an even greater knowledge of safety practices and procedures than they may have had in the past.

Orientation to Laboratory Safety shows both new employees and seasoned veterans the importance of safety in the laboratory. It also reviews the OSHA regulations and good safety practices that apply to laboratory environments.

This training covers the following topics:

• OSHA regulations
• Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs)
• Planning safe experiments
• Personal protective equipment
• Ventilation controls
• Chemical storage
• Accidents and emergencies
• Waste disposal
• And more!

Using a powerful combination of audio, full-motion video, text, and colorful graphics, Orientation to Laboratory Safety provides cost-effective, easy-to-use training. It's divided into topic-based lessons so information is easily understood ... and retained.