Laboratory Safety
Online Safety Data Sheets
Safety Video: "To be (Safe) or not to be"
The Chemistry Department is a dynamic, growing department with a strong commitment to provide a safe and healthy environment for students, faculty, staff and visitors. We believe that safety education is an integral part of "learning" chemistry.
Department Safety Policy
General Laboratory Safety Information
Emergency Procedures
- Spill response (pdf format)
- Personnel injury (pdf format)
- Facility emergency (pdf format)
- Emergency egress (pdf format)
CWU Safety Training
Resources
- Hazard Communication Program
- ChemSafetyPRO
- Chemistry SOP template
- Unattended Experiment Form
- How to read an SDS
- NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards
- CUNY lab safety tutorial
- Resources for P.I.s (UC Center for Laboratory Safety)
- Guide to glove selection
(Ansell "Chemical Resistance Guide") - The proper way to remove disposable gloves (pdf format)
Safety Videos
- A Day in the Lab (UCSD video on YouTube)
- Fire Safety in the Lab (UCLA YouTube video)
- Flash Chromatography 101 (YouTube video)
- Hazardous Waste Management (YouTube video)
- Pipette Safety and Ergonomics (YouTube video)
- Splash Zone (YouTube video)
- To be (safe) or not to be...I highly recommend this to RAs (YouTube video)
Additional safety links
Chemistry News
CWU Alumna Named ACS Fellow
Aurora Clark, a WSU professor of chemistry, has been named a Fellow of the American Chemical Society
Yingbin Ge's Transition Metal Catalyst Research Funded By ACSYingbin Ge's proposal, titled "Theoretical design of long-life efficient transition metal nanocataly
Beng Group Publishes Paper In The Journal Of Organic And Biomolecular ChemistryPaper title: Expedient and modular access to 2-azabicyclic architectures by iron-catalyzed deh
