Labs and Experiments School Safety K through 12

Labs and Experiments School Safety K through 12

Labs and Experiments

Intended as a resource for all school subjects (especially biology, chemistry and physics) regarding safety in labs and in conducting research or experiments. Most material will have a target audience of high school or college professionals and/or students, but none of the sites are so technical that nonprofessionals will have trouble with them. This is not a category for products which enhance safety. This is for information which, if read and followed, will lead to safer labs and lab behavior.

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- A seven part on-line tutorial and quiz that introduces the reader to Material Safety Data Sheets.

- A very large, comprehensive set of links to lab safety resources. Topics include government and nongovernment agencies, ergonomics, radiation issues, and biohazards.

- Providing paid subscribers with online access to chemical databases on hazaradous properties, carcinogenicity, toxicity and biomedical effects and chemical safety sheets.
- Guidelines for responsible use of animals for educational purposes.
- Office of environmental health and safety. Has many downloadable (pdf format) safety newsletters, manuals, and regulations.
- Offers users information regarding electrical safety.
- Downloadable safety checklists, quizzes, and other handouts, as well as access to other free lab-safety materials developed especially for high school science teachers and students.
- Safety manuals of all types on the web.
- Covers all aspects of high school safety in a lab. Seems to be most appropriate for chemistry situations, but there is much which applies to biology or physics.
- Information is provided courtesy of the Department of Health, Safety & Environment at the University of British Columbia.
- General rules which apply to any laboratory situation.
- Concise, critical discussions of the toxicity, flammability, reactivity, and explosibility of 88 chemicals commonly used in scientific research laboratories. Directions for handling, storage, and disposal and special instructions for first aid and emergen
- This website provides a comprehensive catalogue of bioethics resources within the National Institutes of Health and on the web.
- Safety notes and concerns for liquid nitrogen demonstrations. Liquid nitrogen is a dangerous material.
- A non-profit national center for health, safety and environmental affairs. The workshop's mission is to make health and safety an integral and important part of science education, work, and life in general.
- A wide variety of chemicals react dangerously when mixed with certain other materials. Some of the more widely-used incompatible chemicals are listed here, but the absence of a chemical from this list should not be taken to indicate that it is safe to mix
- Dr. Cal's good laboratory practices and WWW chemistry information for students. Topics include lab safety, lab report writing, preparing for lab, and organic lab tips.
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's laboratory safety program.
- A short quiz that may prove surprising to you.
- Fifteen articles ranging from 'goggle safety' to 'where and why science accidents occur.' Worthwhile reading for any science teacher.
- Over 1000 pages of free safety information.
- Explicit guidelines which are reasonable for all chemistry labs. Easily adaptable into a safety contract.
- Biosafety resources on the internet, from the American Biological Safety Association.
- Alphabetical listing of many household products and the hazardous compounds which make up these products. Many of these materials are used in labs, experiments and even art projects.
- From U of Oklahoma Dept. of Public Safety
- The complete collection of advice and warnings offered to those working at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in HTML and pdf formats. Includes "101 Ways to Reduce Hazardous Waste in the Laboratory" and "Pollution Prevention
- NIOSH databases and other resources.
- A simple set of pages covering all aspects of high school lab safety, including photos.
- Offering paid subscribers texts of biosafety, chemical safety, respiratory protection and hazardous wastes programs from around the world.
- Data for nearly 300 hazardous substances.

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