Hazards associated in the Laboratory | Exposure to Chemical Hazards | Laboratory Safety
Channel: WorkSafeVP
Date: 2023-03-07

Characterizing risks associated with laboratory activities in universities may improve health, safety, and environmental management and reduce work-related diseases and accidents.

Laboratories and research facilities are considered a fundamental part of universities playing a crucial role in preparing students and researchers to obtain skills that are valuable in their future careers.

The presence of numerous chemicals in laboratories has faced safety and health managers with challenges in estimating their risks and hazards. The chemicals and equipment that are used by laboratory personnel and students present a number of serious, sometimes life-threatening hazards and accidents. Laboratory managers are responsible to protect their personnel and students from exposure to chemical, biological, and physical hazards. Therefore, the presented risk assessment method for the academic laboratories and applying prevention and mitigation measures in this study enable the laboratory managers to do their responsibility to their personnel and students.

Chemicals used in laboratory activities generate workplace and environmental hazards that must be assessed, managed, and risk mitigated. Developing a method of rating health, safety, and environmental risks related to laboratory chemicals may assist in defining and understanding potential hazards. 

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