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Health and safety in the laboratory. 1 Controlling laboratory environments: risk and hazards. 1.1 Risk assessment. 2 Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) Regulations. 2.1 Classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals. 2.2 Health problems associated with the use of chemicals. 2.3 Biological agents. 2.4 COSHH risk assessment.
22 lis 2012 · The document outlines the essential components of a laboratory safety program, including identifying biological, chemical, radiological, fire and electrical hazards; developing and implementing safety policies and procedures; and evaluating the program for regulatory compliance to protect workers, products, and the environment from laboratory ...
A key element of planning an experiment is assessing the hazards and potential risks associated with the chemicals and laboratory operations to be used. This chapter provides a practical guide for the trained laboratory personnel engaged in these activities.
Chapter 1 - Introduction. The Cornell University Health and Safety Policy 8.6 outlines safety responsibilities and training requirements to ensure individual and institutional compliance with relevant environmental health and safety laws, regulations, policies, and guidelines.
It defines four levels of control that are appropriate for safe laboratory work with microorganisms that present occupational and public health risks, ranging from no risk of disease for normal healthy adults to high risk of life-threatening disease.
This Directive’s basic. principle is risk prevention, which requires risk assessment by the responsible employer and imposes a general duty on employers to ensure the health and safety at work of all employees. The Directive is supplemented by individual Directives which also cover the health and safety needs of laboratory workers.
You must know and understand what hazards exist in your lab, establish a system to recognize hazards, reduce the risk through elimination or control, communicate this information to lab staff and ensure safe conditions are maintained through training, monitoring and enforcing (or encouraging) accountability and ownership by lab workers.
