Perform a lab risk assessment to evaluate and identify what significant hazards may be present in a laboratory area. Workers are required to be given appropriate information, instruction and training ...

Facilities operated by the US Department of Energy (DOE) are required to have extensive worker safety and health programs by regulation. We describe how Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) has ...

The risk of exposure to infectious agents exists in every clinical laboratory. Laboratories must minimize that risk and conduct activities as safely as possible. The starting point is performance of a ...

Then, based on a government risk assessment and past incidents of escape at high-containment laboratories, he estimated the probability that laboratory workers could accidentally become infected ...

Now, in a review of that assessment, released on 15 June, a panel convened by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) concludes that the latest risk estimates are based on “questionable and ...

Among a group of more than 52,000 people, 36% were diagnosed with newly identified hyperlipidemia, diabetes and/or chronic kidney disease during employer-sponsored laboratory testing as part of ...

Five years after the COVID pandemic started, a scientist who warned against dismissing the controversial "lab leak" theory says more needs to be done to prevent high-risk research from potentially ...

BMD modeling is used because it considers the effects of chemicals on human health at very low levels in the environment using the results from studies in laboratory animals [3] to estimate the dose ...