Safety Training Program Highlights

About Orientation to Laboratory Safety

Today, more than ever, safety training is essential for laboratory employees.

A laboratory can be a dangerous place, and with the daily pressures to get things done employees can be tempted to take shortcuts and ignore safety precautions.

With the increasing complexity of the equipment and procedures involved in experiments, employees need an even greater knowledge of safety practices and procedures than they may have in the past.

At the same time, recent OSHA regulations such as the Laboratory Standard, the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard and others require that employees have information and training on topics from Material Safety Data Sheets to the transmission of bloodborne diseases.

All of this means that "new hires" as well as experienced employees need a good general knowledge of safe work practices and the regulatory compliance requirements they will be involved with.

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Orientation to Laboratory Safety