Chemical Laboratory Safety

"The Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library (CSL) provides unique crowd sourced data content containing hazardous reactions that can be used to alert scientists to potential dangerous experiments."

"The ACS Center for Lab Safety supports and promotes the safe, ethical, responsible, and sustainable practice of chemistry through easy access to authoritative tools, education, training, and guidance."

This online, self-paced course offers education on chemical safety concepts.

Requirements for ACS authors on inclusion of safety statements in articles.

This is a freely accessible website part of a collection of disaster preparedness databases. Its goal is to enable first responders, first receivers, healthcare providers and planners to plan for, respond to, recover from, and mitigate the effects of mass-casualty incidents involving chemicals. CHEMM may be downloaded so it can be available during an event or if the Internet is unavailable.

Fact sheets and in-depth reports of hundreds of commonly used substances.

"The Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library (CSL) provides unique crowd sourced data content containing hazardous reactions that can be used to alert scientists to potential dangerous experiments."

Resources on health and safety in the laboratory by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

"Laboratory Safety Guidelines" were written by Dr. James A. Kaufman while he worked for the Dow Chemical Company in an attempt to share with schools, colleges, and universities what he was learning about lab safety.

ToxTutor is a self-paced tutorial covering key principles of toxicology for users of the National Library of Medicine (NLM) chemical and toxicology databases.

The UC Center for Laboratory Safety has compiled laboratory safety incidents for use by health and safety professionals, faculty, supervisors, students and any others who may benefit from these "lessons learned". They have attempted to list the key safety and health teaching concepts/principles for each of the incidents listed.

Various ACS publications on safety practices and recommendations in the workplace and/or laboratory.

The objective of this guide is to provide laboratory employees with a framework for spill response planning. This planning must be done in advance, not after a spill occurs.

Guidelines developed by the Hazard Identification and Evaluation Task Force of the American Chemical Society’s Committee on Chemical Safety, 2015.

This report provides guidance, suggestions, examples, and recommendations that can help
strengthen the safety culture in two- and four-year undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral
programs.

Requirements for authors of ACS articles on inclusion of safety statements.

NIOSH made recommendations on occupational safety and health practices in the production and use of nanomaterials

Most of the chemicals produced and used today are beneficial, but
some also have the potential to damage human health, the environment, and public attitudes toward chemical enterprises. Institutions must be aware of the potential for the accidental misuse of chemicals, as well as their intentional misuse for activities such as terrorism or illicit drug trafficking.

Chemical & Engineering News publishes Safety Letters about unexpectedly hazardous reactions since 1993.

The NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards is intended as a source of general industrial hygiene information on several hundred chemicals/classes for workers, employers, and occupational health professionals.

Various guidance documents regarding laboratory safety are available from this website.

A booklet containing safety resources for chemistry educators and students.

The ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Chemical safety has prepared volume for the prevention of accidents in college and university educational chemistry laboratories.

The ACS Joint Board-Council Committee on Chemical safety has prepared volume for the prevention of accidents in college and university educational chemistry laboratories.

NIOSH School Chemistry Laboratory Safety Guide. For secondary schools, but contains good basic information.

A guide produced by the University of Wisconsin to provide information for all laboratory workers on chemical regulations, lessons learned, PPE, usage, and disposal.