Laboratory Safety: Orientation to Laboratory Safety

When you’re working in a laboratory, there’s always a lot going on. You may be conducting research or performing an experiment; most of the time you might have all of your attention focused on making sure everything is working properly. When this happens, safety could be the last thing on your mind, but safety is something you must never forget. The information in this orientation to lab safety Video On Demand is critical; after all, if you don’t pay attention to safety, the laboratory quickly becomes a dangerous place.

Some procedures you may not know when you start working in a laboratory include how to label your chemicals, decide on the proper Personal Protective Equipment, or how to utilize your Material Safety Data Sheets. This video lesson explains these procedures, thus helping you provide a safer work environment for both you and your coworkers.

Accidents happen, even if you follow all the safety guidelines and know the procedures well enough to instruct others. That is why it is just as important to know how to act during an emergency as it is to know how to try and prevent one from occurring.

This online video training helps demonstrate the importance of safe work practices, while reviewing OSHA regulations. Use this basic laboratory safety training to prepare workers to prevent accidents and understand how to respond in the event of an emergency.

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.

Anyone who works in a laboratory

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

• Laboratory Safety: Electrical Safety in the Laboratory
• Laboratory Safety: Planning for Laboratory Emergencies
• Laboratory Safety: Laboratory Ergonomics