Laboratory Safety Training Resources

There are many resources available for supporting laboratory safety training at UVM. Two examples of these are:

1. Howard Hughes Medical Institute Training Videos

Available on loan from the Environmental Safety staff, or order your own free copy of the appropriate videos directly from the HHMI from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Web site.

Topics available include:

• Practicing Safe Science
  (30 minutes on general laboratory safety)
• Controlling Your Risks: HIV in the Research Laboratory
  (30 minutes on working with potentially infections materials)
• Radionuclide Hazards
• Assessing Chemical Hazards
  (15 minutes on planning chemical work)
• Emergency Response
  (18 minutes on planning emergency response; used during ESF training).
• Centrifugation Hazards
• Chemical Storage Hazards
  (15 minutes on setting up chemically compatible storage in your laboratory)
• Glassware Washing Hazards
• Mammalian Cell Culture Hazards
• X-Ray Diffraction Hazards
• Assessing Risks of Toxic Chemicals

2. Environmental Health and Engineering (EHE) Powerpoint files and write-ups:
E-mail us for a copy.

Topics include:

• Autoclave Safety
• Cell and Tissue Culture
• Centrifuges and Ultracentrifuges
• Ethylene Oxide
• Gel Electrophoresis
• Glutaraldehyde
• Laboratory Ergonomics
• Latex
• Peroxide Forming Chemicals
• Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)

Last Updated: October 12, 2006