NSF® (formerly the National Sanitation Foundation) has specified three classes of biological safety cabinets that offer effective containment for working with human pathogens. Class I, II, and III are described below, and some may include…
By wearing personal protective equipment and lab safety apparel, you protect yourself from chemicals, spills, toxins, germs, and other contaminants and perils in the lab and industrial settings. Here’s a checklist of what you may…
Are your lab safety gloves compatible with the materials you are using? Are you wearing the correct type of gloves? If not, you and your colleagues could be exposed to chemicals that penetrate the skin,…
Recently Paris started enforcing new commuting rules in an effort to reduce smog in the City of Light. Key cities in China, including Beijing and Shanghai, have suffered from poor air quality for some time…