Laboratory Safety: Orientation to Laboratory Safety

In a laboratory, there's a lot going on, making it easy to forget about safety. However, the role safety plays in the laboratory is something that should never be forgotten. This online training course provides an orientation to safety and teaches you the proper safety procedures to follow in your laboratory. These steps are vital, if you don't pay attention to safety the laboratory can become a pretty dangerous place.

Knowing the proper Personal Protective Equipment to wear, utilizing the Material Safety Data Sheets, and even correctly storing and labeling your chemicals are but a few of the steps to take in order to make your laboratory a safer work environment.

Even if you follow the proper safety procedures however, accidents can still happen. Therefore is it important to know how to act during an emergency. This training lesson gives you the ability to help prevent accidents as well as limit the damage should one occur, thereby creating a much safer laboratory for both you and your coworkers. Help keep safety a top priority at your lab by providing employees with this online training video.

This course has been updated to include GHS container labels and Safety Data Sheets (SDS) for GHS compliance.

   This course is in the Video On Demand format, to read about Video On Demand features click here.

All laboratory workers

• Introduction
• Personal Protective Equipment
• Safety Procedures
• Lab Hoods
• Chemical Storage & Labeling
• Clean-up Disposal & Emergency Procedures
• Review

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