Highlights
New PI/Faculty Information
If you are a new PI or Faculty member with laboratory responsibilities please read and review the Lab Move-In or Relocation worksheet. This has been developed by the EH&S Department to assist you in understanding the basic requirements to ensure a safe working environment.
MWRA Discharge Permit Limits
Laboratory Safety
CHEMICAL HYGIENE PLAN
The Chemical Hygiene Plan has been developed to assist in University compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Occupational exposure to hazardous chemicals in laboratories standard (1910.1450). Lab personnel at Brandeis must be made aware of and should review the attached plan before working in a laboratory.
- Download file (Word document)
LAB HAZARD EVALUATION
The Hazard Evaluation Form will help you to evaluate, document and communicate potential lab hazards to all lab personnel. Communication of these hazards must be documented using the Training Log.
- Hazard Evaluation Form (Word doc)
- Training Log (Word doc)
SAFETY GUIDELINES
Safety Guidelines are additional resources to help communicate information regarding hazard recognition, reduction and control of:
- specific chemical classes,
- physical hazards,
- equipment hazards and related topics.
- Chemical Compatibility & Storage
- Compressed Gas Transport and Use
- Corrosive Chemicals
- Cryogenic Materials
- Dry Ice (available as Word document only)
- Ethidium Bromide
- Flammable and Combustible Liquids Handling (available as Word document only)
- Glassware Handling and Disposal
- Lachrymators
- Oxidizing Chemicals
- Pyrophoric Chemicals
TRAINING
Training is critical to not only ensure regulatory compliance, but more importantly the safety of students, faculty, staff and visitors as well as the environment. Laboratory personnel are required to complete this training prior entering a lab.
Shipping with dry ice introduces its own hazards and the regulations require that anyone responsible for shipping is trained. If you plan on shipping with dry ice, you must read the Brandeis Guide to Shipping with Dry Ice, complete the Quiz and return it to the EH&S Department.
CHEMICAL SPILL REPORTING
Report any uncontrolled chemical spill (something you can't clean up on your own) to Public Safety at 63333. Public Safety will notify EH&S. Any release of unpermitted chemicals to a sink or floor drain should also be immediately reported.