laboratory safety Articles
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Training mission for Trace2o
Trace2o® Sales Executive Maud Dumas and CEO Neil Durham visited Burkina Faso and Côte D’Ivoire last week, providing detailed product training alongside an extensive question-and-answer session on Trace2o’s new range of AquaSafe portable water safety laboratories. The AquaSafe range captured the interest of water professionals, academics and NGOs active in the region. ...
By Trace2o Ltd.
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UK Health and Safety Laboratory samples with Axetris mass flow controllers - Case study
Proficiency testing ensures workplace & consumer safety The Health and Safety Laboratory (HSL) runs a state-of-the-art atmosphere generation system for recreating polluted atmospheres and accurate loading of standards of hazardous materials such as VOCs. These standards are used for conformity testing by participating laboratories as part of proficiency testing schemes. Axetris' mass flow ...
By Axetris AG
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Biological Safety Canopy Exhaust Connection Saves Energy and Improves Overall Safety Performance
Abstract With environmental resources becoming more and more limited and energy costs on the rise, reducing energy consumption is an important consideration for every laboratory. It is especially important in light of an analysis published by the US Environmental Protection Agency concluded that laboratories consume five to 10 times more energy per square foot than typical office buildings.1 As ...
By Baker
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Laboratory Gas Detection Solutions
The laboratory can be a dangerous place. Various measures must be put in place to create a laboratory that is safe and obeys health and safety regulations. Gases present in the laboratory are a common hazard found in the labs and pose risks such as explosions and toxicity. It is therefore vital to be alert for gas leaks. The installation of an appropriate gas sensor is one way to monitor ...
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Hazmat: Why we train in the life-saving zone
Our profession is complex and dangerous. Oddly, some often need to remind themselves of this. Many of us are not only hazmat professionals but also EMTs, paramedics, firefighters, company commanders, law enforcement officers, EH&S specialists, lab safety specialists, risk managers, confined-space technicians, USAR technicians, WMD specialists, apparatus operators, grief counselors, ...
By HazSim
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Best Practices for Chemical Management
Introduction The costs of managing chemicals are far more than just the product price, but the life-cycle management of chemicals can be optimized to cut these peripheral costs. By adopting best practices, the chemical management process is more integrated into the business process, becoming a strategic advantage to the organization, raising efficiency on a number of fronts, decreasing legal ...
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How To Use A Fume Hood
Fume hoods are designed to keep laboratory professionals safe while working with hazardous materials. They filter the air to prevent the inhalation of toxic particles that can lodge in the lungs and cause serious health implications. In order for fume hoods to provide protection, users must follow basic safety practices. No matter how well a fume hood is designed, it won’t be effective ...
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Hydrogen carrier gas for total petroleum hydrocarbon analysis
Many labs are facing helium supply difficulties and rapid price increases as a result of the helium shortage. Lab managers are therefore looking for alternative carrier gases and for many GC applications, hydrogen provides an excellent alternative to helium. Using a hydrogen generator can supply gas to a whole lab and at the same time remove the danger of storing hydrogen in the lab. Laboratories ...
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New Belgium Brewing Company - Case Study
Name: Dana Sedin Job Title: Chemistry Lab Manager Company: New Belgium Brewing Company Dana Sedin – Chemistry Lab Manager, New Belgium Brewing Company Peak Scientific Helps New Belgium Brewing Company in Crafting Fine Beer with Precision New Belgium Brewing Company has become one of the largest craft breweries in the United States. Their flagship brew is an amber ale called Fat Tire, ...
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Why Is It Important To Work In A Fume Hood?
Fume hoods, or fume cupboards, work to ensure the safety of lab personnel while working with hazardous materials by continuously delivering airflow away from the user. When used properly, fume hoods can prevent users and the environment from toxic gases, explosions, and spills. Fume hoods have proper ventilation Breathing in harmful chemicals can cause toxins to lodge in your lungs or enter the ...
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Survey says: Material safety data sheet (MSDS)
A good system for chemical management begins with a complete inventory of the laboratory's chemicals and a Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) collection for those materials. A little more than 18 months ago, an entirely preventable tragedy occurred when a UCLA research assistant was burned over 43 percent of her body and died 18 days later in a hospital burn unit. While using a plastic syringe to ...
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Airflow Management for Laboratories: Navigating the Currents of Scientific Excellence
In laboratory settings, airflow management plays a vital role in ensuring the safety of personnel, maintaining equipment functionality, and obtaining accurate experimental results. By implementing proper airflow control, labs can effectively reduce contamination risks, safeguarding the purity of sensitive experiments and upholding the integrity of research outcomes. Well-regulated airflow also ...
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Lab Gas Price Bulletin November 2018
A major gas company has increased the gas price for hydrogen and nitrogen gases in North America. This will have a knock-on effect for laboratories who buy nitrogen to supply their instruments. Labs can avoid the gas price increases by replacing their bulk supply with a nitrogen generator. On the 1st of October Air Products increased gas prices for liquid nitrogen, as well as increasing prices ...
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Irish Biofuels uses Peak generators for QC testing of biodiesel - Case Study
Irish Biofuels have utilized Peak Precision series in their lab for QC testing of bio diesel. Irish Biofuels is a manufacturer of high quality biodiesel which is compliant with FAMEs EN14214. Currently supplying the Irish and UK bio diesel market, Irish Biofuels has plans in place to expand export of its product to Europe. The company’s main site near Wicklow Port has been using Peak gas ...
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Overview of Brucella Abortus
Brucellosis is a zoonotic infectious disease caused by Brucella, and it is one of the most widespread zoonotic diseases in the world, which brings great losses to the animal husbandry industry. Here, we will outline several aspects about the pathogen, living environment, identification, and diagnostic procedures of Brucella, hoping to popularize knowledge about brucellosis. Characteristics of ...
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What is a Laboratory Water Bath?
A laboratory water bath, also known as a serology water bath or thermostatic water bath, is a container filled with heated water that is used to incubate samples at a constant temperature for long periods. A laboratory water bath is most commonly used during incubation in microbiological laboratory work because water can retain heat so well, but can also enable chemical reactions to occur once ...
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FTIR gas analyzers support management of fire at UK waste facility - Case study
A multi-agency Air Quality Cell (AQC) was first established in England in 2009 following the Buncefield Oil Storage Depot incident. A review of this event identified the need to rapidly co-ordinate the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of air quality data in major incidents. Arrangements have been made in England to bring together experts from the Environment Agency (EA), Public Health ...
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