Laboratory Safety

Chemical exposure, radiation, lasers... these are just a few of the hazards that can be encountered in a laboratory setting. PureSafety offers many courses that target hazards that are commonplace in laboratories.

Biosafety Hazardous Waste Handling and Disposal

If you work with biological materials, it's quite possible that you will produce hazardous waste. What types of hazardous waste might you produce? The obvious answer is biohazardous, or medical, waste. But if you're like a lot of people who work with biological materials, you may also work with or around other hazardous chemicals and radioactive materials, which wind up as waste too.
Learning Objectives: 
Give a definition of hazardous waste; Describe your role in the hazardous waste management process; Discuss strategies and practices for hazardous waste minimization; List three methods of hazardous waste disposal; State what to do in the event that you find an unknown waste.
Course Length: 
47 min
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Ionizing Radiation v2

Although radiation offers many benefits, exposure to it can also threaten our health and the quality of our environment. We cannot eliminate radiation, but this training shows how we can reduce our risk by controlling our exposure to it.
Learning Objectives: 
Types and sources of radiation ; Occupational exposure and potential health effects ; Radiation controls measures ; Handling ionizing radiation emergencies and reports
Course Length: 
40 min
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Lab Safety

A laboratory safety program depends on every employee's participation and cooperation. This course describes common hazards associated with laboratory environments and introduces ways to control and limit chemical exposure.
Learning Objectives: 
Regulatory requirements for establishing a Chemical Hygiene Plan ; Detection and hazard control methods ; Recognition of common laboratory hazards ; General rules of lab safety
Course Length: 
41 min
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Laboratory Safety - Biohazards, Part 1: Understanding Risk

Laboratories are special, often unique work environments that pose identifiable infectious disease risks to persons in or near them. As early as the turn of the century published reports describe laboratory-acquired infections from typhoid, cholera, glanders, brucellosis, and tetanus. Through attention to biosafety, reported incidents of laboratory-acquired infections have decreased. In this training you will learn about biohazards typical in lab settings and ways you can protect yourself, others, and the environment.
Learning Objectives: 
US Centers for Disease Control, US National institutes of Health, Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL); 29 CFR 1910.1030, OSHA Bloodborne Pathogens; 29 CFR 1910, OSHA Subpart I - Personal Protective Equipment; 29 CFR 1910.1450, OSHA Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories; US Patriot Act - Select Agents & Toxins Rule
Course Length: 
37 min
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Laboratory Safety - Biohazards, Part 2: Controlling Risk

In Part 2, you will learn about various ways that these risks are managed. In this part, you will learn about engineering controls, administrative controls and work practice controls. Then you will learn about personal protection equipment, your last line of defense against exposure. The course ends with a discussion of what to do when things go wrong, starting with spill procedures and finally covering emergency procedures.
Learning Objectives: 
Give examples of effective engineering, administrative and work practice controls ; Identify personal protective equipment that can be used in situations involving potentially infectious material
Course Length: 
40 min
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Laboratory Safety - Cleanrooms

If you work in a cleanroom, you play a critical role in preserving the integrity of a laboratory. Discover the general cleanroom practices and procedures you must follow to control contamination.
Learning Objectives: 
Cleanroom environment ; General cleanroom practices and procedures ; Rules of conduct in a cleanroom
Course Length: 
36 min
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Laboratory Safety - Radiation

Radiation in the workplace is not limited to X-ray machines in dentists
Learning Objectives: 
Radiation exposure and protection ; Rules for safe use of radiation ; Radioactive waste storage and disposal ; Emergency procedures
Course Length: 
33 min
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