Offers users information regarding electrical safety.

Guidelines for responsible use of animals for educational purposes.

This website provides a comprehensive catalogue of bioethics resources within the National Institutes of Health and on the web.

Biosafety resources on the internet, from the American Biological Safety Association.

A short quiz that may prove surprising to you.

A very large, comprehensive set of links to lab safety resources. Topics include government and nongovernment agencies, ergonomics, radiation issues, and biohazards.

Fifteen articles ranging from 'goggle safety' to 'where and why science accidents occur.' Worthwhile reading for any science teacher.

Alphabetical listing of many household products and the hazardous compounds which make up these products. Many of these materials are used in labs, experiments and even art projects.

A wide variety of chemicals react dangerously when mixed with certain other materials. Some of the more widely-used incompatible chemicals are listed here, but the absence of a chemical from this list should not be taken to indicate that it is safe to mix it with any other chemical.

Concise, critical discussions of the toxicity, flammability, reactivity, and explosibility of 88 chemicals commonly used in scientific research laboratories. Directions for handling, storage, and disposal and special instructions for first aid and emergency response are given. Unlike most Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDSs), the LCSSs are designed especially for laboratory workers.

From U of Oklahoma Dept. of Public Safety

Information is provided courtesy of the Department of Health, Safety & Environment at the University of British Columbia.

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's laboratory safety program.

Safety notes and concerns for liquid nitrogen demonstrations. Liquid nitrogen is a dangerous material.

Data for nearly 300 hazardous substances.

A seven part on-line tutorial and quiz that introduces the reader to Material Safety Data Sheets.

Dr. Cal's good laboratory practices and WWW chemistry information for students. Topics include lab safety, lab report writing, preparing for lab, and organic lab tips.

NIOSH databases and other resources.

Safety manuals of all types on the web.

Offering paid subscribers texts of biosafety, chemical safety, respiratory protection and hazardous wastes programs from around the world.

Providing paid subscribers with online access to chemical databases on hazaradous properties, carcinogenicity, toxicity and biomedical effects and chemical safety sheets.

Explicit guidelines which are reasonable for all chemistry labs. Easily adaptable into a safety contract.

General rules which apply to any laboratory situation.

Over 1000 pages of free safety information.

Covers all aspects of high school safety in a lab. Seems to be most appropriate for chemistry situations, but there is much which applies to biology or physics.

Downloadable safety checklists, quizzes, and other handouts, as well as access to other free lab-safety materials developed especially for high school science teachers and students.

A simple set of pages covering all aspects of high school lab safety, including photos.

A non-profit national center for health, safety and environmental affairs. The workshop's mission is to make health and safety an integral and important part of science education, work, and life in general.

The complete collection of advice and warnings offered to those working at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, all in HTML and pdf formats. Includes "101 Ways to Reduce Hazardous Waste in the Laboratory" and "Pollution Prevention in Laboratories: The How To Guide."

Office of environmental health and safety. Has many downloadable (pdf format) safety newsletters, manuals, and regulations.