Prioritizing lab safety strengthens workplace culture, boosts confidence and productivity, and reduces absenteeism and operational downtime.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine are private, nonprofit institutions that provide expert advice on some of the most pressing challenges facing the nation and world. Our ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) models have proved useful in some areas of science, like predicting 3D protein structures, ...

The doors to laboratories utilizing hazardous equipment, toxic or flammable chemicals—and the doors to hazardous materials storage rooms—must be posted with an emergency response sign listing the ...

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Although attitudes towards lab safety have grown more positive over the years, some academic researchers still believe that safe lab practices hamper research productivity. The idea is that time spent ...

After being paid not to work for nine months, employees at a federal office in Spokane dedicated to workplace safety were ...

Ensuring student safety in undergraduate teaching laboratories is a critical component of the responsibilities of the Department of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S). It is very difficult for ...

Subhash Verma, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology, and his research team at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine (UNR Med), has received the 2025 Excellence in Laboratory ...

The following general procedures provide guidance to be followed to safely and properly work with toxins in the laboratory. Adherence to this procedure will ensure that employees and students are not ...

Good supervisors listen to their employees.