Developing a More Effective Lab Safety Program
Whether your organization's safety culture is well-developed or non-existent, this one-day professional development course is a step-by-step roadmap to build safety into every activity and workflow. It presents 33 elegantly simple and inexpensive safety solutions that have been a game-changer for hundreds of academic, governmental and industrial organizations. In eight hours of content, we thoroughly crush one of the most common objections to improving safety programs: "It costs too much."
This course distills the content of our 2-day lab safety short course and adds a leadership component. Please bring all the written materials associated with your lab safety program with you for your review and evaluation in light of the principles in this course.
Discussion topics: Accident Reporting & Investigation, Awareness Posters, Biological & Animal Hazards, Bulletin Board & Newsletter, Chemical Handling & Storage, CHO & CHP, Contractor, Disposal of Chemicals, Education & Training, Electrical Safety, Emergency Preparedness, Eye & Face Protection, Four Simple Questions, Fume Hoods, Lab Inspections, Legal Aspects of Safety, Manual Safety Committee, New Employee Orientation, Off-The-Job Safety, Policy Statement, Provide PPE, Reference Library & SDSs, Regulatory Compliance & Waste Disposal, Reward Program, Rules Agreement, Safety Budget, Safety Planning for Emergencies, Safety Program Planning, Scope of the Problem, Six Leadership Principles, Three Cs of Safety, Visitor & Vendor Safety, Your Most Serious Problem.
K-12 educators can receive a $350 scholarship (more than half the tuition) for this course. Apply here.
Who Should Attend?
- ANYONE who wants a safer lab program
- Business Officers
- Chemical Hygiene Officers
- Environmental, Health & Safety Professionals
- Lab Managers / Supervisors / Workers
- Researchers
- Risk Managers/ Operations Managers
- School Administrators
- Science, Art & Technology Educators
Registrants Receive:
- Completion certificate
- Course notebook (A PDF is included free with every course. If you would like a printed notebook, please add that option below.)
- Assessment test for additional fee if needed for PD credit
- 0.7 Continuing Education Units (CEU’s)
- Graduate credit eligibility
- ABIH CM Points eligibility
- 30% off LSI items and 15% off non-LSI items at labsafety.org/shop for 7 days after course
Lodging, transportation and meals not included in tuition for in-person courses.
To pay by purchase order, select "invoice" as the payment option.
When registering more than one person please make sure to include all the names and email addresses at check-out.
Cancellation Policy
Teachers can become members for $25
Members get 15% off all courses. (Discounts may not be combined.)