Lab Management and Safety Resources
Lab Management and Safety Resources
This collection of checklists and templates below may be used to help those responsible for managing research labs. The overview file has links to and information about the other listed documents. Most items are voluntary, required items are double starred in the overview file. Feel free to modify any of the documents below to suit the needs of your lab.
Overview of Lab Management and Safety Resources
- Sample lab contacts information sheet
- Sample checklist for new lab members
- Sample chemical inventory
- Sample equipment inventory
- Sample freezer inventory
- Sample instructions on receiving orders
- Sample request form for orders
- Sample list of vendors
- Sample area signs
- Safe Use of Autoclaves - Training Checklist and Autoclave Log
Chemical Risk Assessment Tool
Risk assessment is an important part of safely conducting research. The OESO Lab Safety Division has developed a tool to help you to identify different hazards in your research, evaluate the risks posed by those hazards, decide how you will mitigate those hazards, and assess how well your controls have worked after you have run the experiment.
News Blog
Duke Lab Safety News - Check out the Lab Safety Program’s blog for lab safety announcements and hazard alerts. Emails are sent periodically to all Principal Investigators and Lab Safety Contacts to announce new content.
Lessons Learned
The following sites compile lessons learned from lab accidents.
Videos
Videos can complement hazard-specific training in any lab. The sites below have short videos related to safe work with various hazards in labs.
- Lab Lessons Learned from AIHA (American Industrial Hygiene Association)
- Lessons Learned from UC Center for Laboratory Safety
- Lessons Learned from UC Berkeley
- Lessons Learned from Lawrence Berkeley National Labs
- Safety Letters from Chemical & Engineering News
- Lab Safety Videos from UC San Diego
- LN2 tank filling safety video and others from Northwestern University
- Lab Safety Training Videos from DOW (Must provide email address.)