{"title":"The Ten Most Common Laboratory Safety Issues","authors":"Richard Palluzi*","doi":"10.1021/acs.chas.1c00063","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p >This Commentary discusses the most common safety issues observed in a variety of academic and industrial research laboratories over the author’s 45-plus year career. It highlights the issues and provides additional references for further information. The list can serve as a good tool to help laboratories identify potential safety issues in areas commonly overlooked.</p>","PeriodicalId":12,"journal":{"name":"ACS Chemical Health & Safety","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.9000,"publicationDate":"2021-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ACS Chemical Health & Safety","FirstCategoryId":"1","ListUrlMain":"https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.chas.1c00063","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"PUBLIC, ENVIRONMENTAL & OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This Commentary discusses the most common safety issues observed in a variety of academic and industrial research laboratories over the author’s 45-plus year career. It highlights the issues and provides additional references for further information. The list can serve as a good tool to help laboratories identify potential safety issues in areas commonly overlooked.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety focuses on news, information, and ideas relating to issues and advances in chemical health and safety. The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety covers up-to-the minute, in-depth views of safety issues ranging from OSHA and EPA regulations to the safe handling of hazardous waste, from the latest innovations in effective chemical hygiene practices to the courts'' most recent rulings on safety-related lawsuits. The Journal of Chemical Health and Safety presents real-world information that health, safety and environmental professionals and others responsible for the safety of their workplaces can put to use right away, identifying potential and developing safety concerns before they do real harm.