Starting Up a New Laboratory at UVM

The best time to establish good laboratory safety practices is when you start moving into your laboratory. Many questions quickly arise:

• How many chemicals should we buy to start?
• Where should we store them?
• What kind of safety training do we need?
• Do we know what kind of laboratory gloves we need?
• Do we know how to get rid of our wastes?

Contact Environmental Safety staff at esf@uvm.edu to schedule a consultation to help answer these and many other questions. During a 1-2 hour visit, ES staff can answer your questions, provide helpful safety materials such as labels and signs, and explain all the requirements for operating laboratories that use hazardous chemicals at UVM.

To help you get started, a list of the supplies/services we offer is available here.

Last Updated: April 15, 2007