Laboratory Safety
Incidents
This site - One of the
goals of the AIHA Laboratory Health and Safety Committee is to collect and make available
a compilation of laboratory safety incidents. may be used by health and safety
professionals, faculty, supervisors, students and any others who may benefit from these
"lessons learned". We have attempted to list the key safety and health teaching
concepts/principles for each of the incidents listed.
The incident summaries were obtained from submissions
contributed by personnel involved in laboratory health and safety as well as from
information posted on listservs or on the internet (with permission). All
identifying information has been removed.
If you have laboratory safety or health incidents that
you would be willing to share with others, perhaps those that you feel are especially
valuable for student or employee training, which emphasize key safety
concepts/principles and have specific corrective action, please review the recommended format.
Then strip your entry of any identifying reference to persons or institutions and
e-mail to Ken_Kretchman@ncsu.edu for
review. The only editing we plan for submittals would be removal of person or institution
identifying information or the addition of key learning points, if not provided, for
indexing purposes. As you review the various incidents included, note that the formats
vary. This is to limit editing on your part or ours.
Other Links - Below we have also
included links to several other sites which contain health and safety incident
information. Although some of these contain incidents which are well beyond lab scale, the
safety concepts may also apply to the research lab environment. If you know of other sites
with accessible safety and health incident summaries we would appreciate your letting us
know about them.
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United
Kingdom Chemical Reaction Hazards Forum, This forum lists incidents involving
chemicals that occur in laboratories and other work sites.
A Compilation of "Lessons
Learned" Pages
by David Aha and Roseanne Weber
Laser Incidents
Chemical Incidents
EPA Chemical Accident Investigation
Reports
Chemical Incidents Reports Center
DOE
Operating Experience Lessons Learned
HPAC Engineering War Stories
Revision Date: 3/16/2003
url: http://www2.umdnj.edu/eohssweb/aiha/accidents/index.htm
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