Problem: An emergency spill response plan is part of every laboratory safety protocol. However, despite all the best precautions, accidents can happen! Laboratories often house chemicals such as acids, bases, solvents and flammables—all of which can be toxic to human health and the environment if used incorrectly or spilled.

Developing and implementing effective occupational health and safety compliance is accomplished through needs assessments, hazard analysis, monitoring, training, and through analysis of accident and incident history. Join our interactive discussion as our health and safety expert explains some of the details of developing an effective and compliant health & safety training program.

Fear of loss, combined with positive or negative incentives, influences performance.

Follow our guidelines for developing a solid, proactive approach to protecting your employees from potential hazards in the workplace

When bad weather strikes or illness invades, zoos and aquariums are among the most vulnerable facilities affected.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund asks court to compel university to share public records on controversial, taxpayer-funded primate studies.

This webinar will explain the role of standards in bringing about the goal of safety in the workplace, or, for that matter in families and other teams. Good safety standards will be defined and explained, with tools provided that you can put to work tomorrow.

Meditation might be a path to migraine relief, according to a new study by researchers at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center.

In a move that could have huge implications for national security, researchers have created a very sensitive and tiny detector that is capable of detecting radiation from various sources at room temperature. The detector is eight to nine orders of magnitude –100 million to as high as 1 billion — times faster than the existing technology, and a Texas A&M University at Galveston professor is a key player in the discovery.

Any researcher in the United States who is dependent on government funding knows first-hand the devastation that the sequestration wrought. Some have found ways, temporarily, to do more with less money, while others have had to pack up their research tents for good.

Late summer is the peak time for harmful algae that can turn lakes into toxic scum, canceling fishing trips and fouling water supplies. While the Pacific Northwest doesn’t get anything near the activity that turned parts of Lake Erie into bright green slime, our coasts are vulnerable in late summer to this largely unpredictable – and in our case unseen – menace.

Some people take stress in stride; others are done in by it. New research at Rockefeller University has identified the molecular mechanisms of this so-called stress gap in mice with very similar genetic backgrounds — a finding that could lead researchers to better understand the development of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety and depression.