If regular prescription glasses are used, special safety glasses designed to fit over them must be worn. However, safety glasses do not provide adequate protection against chemical splashes, aerosols ...

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): Must be worn in accordance to your lab’s hazard assessments including: lab coat, safety glasses/goggles, gloves, aprons, and the minimum lab PPE required in the ...

The purpose of the CCS High School Chemical Safety Grant is to promote chemical safety excellence in secondary education in one of the following areas: Integrating chemical safety into curriculum (e.g ...

The ACS Committee on Chemical Safety (CCS) is publishing a series of short, topical guides to help those who work in laboratories better understand the general aspects of laboratory and chemical ...

Safety glasses that meet the ANSI Z.87.1 1989 standard should be worn whenever handling ... For potentially corrosive gases, perform manipulations of materials that pose an inhalation hazard in a ...

Since 1990, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has required "employers engaged in the laboratory use of hazardous chemicals" to have a Chemical Hygiene Plan (CHP). The Purdue ...

Two exciting capstone courses for chemical engineering seniors are based on the lab. These courses allow students to build teamwork skills in a state-of-the-art learning complex. Process safety is ...