University of Connecticut |Chemical Health & Safety News
Laboratory Safety & Chemical Waste Management Training
Intended Audience: New faculty and staff, new graduate students, new research assistants, visiting professors and researchers as well as all other laboratory personnel who have not received training at UConn. This training is required for compliance under OSHA and EPA regulations for people working with chemicals. Please register online.Laboratory Safety & Chemical Waste Management Retraining
NEW - ANNUAL RETRAINING REQUIRED AS OF SEPT. 2008Intended Audience: Faculty, staff, graduate students, research assistants and researchers that have attended the initial training and are due for their yearly Retraining can register online for retraining.
Chemical Health & Safety Links
- Best Glove Manufacturing
- Mapa Professional
- Microflex
Government Agencies
- CDC NIOSH
- Approaches to Safe Nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology Guidelines
- Controlled Substances
- New Jersey - Department of Health (Hazardous Substance Fact Sheets, with espanol version)
- CT DEP
- EPA
- EPA University Web Page
- Mass DEP
- National Toxicology Program
- OSHA
- OSHA Laboratory Standard
Chemical Hazards/MSDS
- Using Reactive Chemicals- The UCLA Fatality
- Chemical Compatibility with Materials
- Compressed Gas Association
- Fisher Scientific Source for MSDS
- SIRI MSDS Index
- Scott Gas Resources (Compressed Gas Safety)
- Butyl Lithium Safety
- MSDS Solutions Center
- Sigma-Aldrich Source for MSDS
Other Resources
- Lab Safety Organization
- OSHA On-line Training Classes
- ACS
- Campus Consortium for Environmental Excellence
- Safety PowerPoint Presentation Library