Practices and precautions to protect laboratory personnel include safety guidance for using autoclaves, use of chemical fume hoods, labeling and transferring chemicals, and latex exposure. Oct 15, ...

OSHA issued its Occupational Exposure to Hazardous Chemicals in Laboratories standard 1 (29 CFR 1910.1450) in 1990. Known as the Laboratory Standard, it was developed to address workplaces where ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A piece of lab machinery that killed a Yale University student when it ensnared her hair was missing required safeguards, and the accident exposed problems with the school's safety ...

SHELTON >> Federal workplace health and safety officials have cited a city-based subsdiairy of Quest Diagnostics Corp. for failing to take the proper precautions to protect workers from hazardous ...

Tufts University’s Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine has been fined more than $5,000 and cited by the U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health Administration for an April ...

The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has fined Manchester-based Phoenix Environmental Laboratories Inc. for “willfully exposing” employees to a carcinogen. For several months, ...

MADISON – A borough-based company is facing more than $152,000 in fines after inadequately protecting its employees against chemical hazards, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A Yale University student nearing graduation was killed inside a school lab when her hair was pulled into a piece of machine-shop equipment, an official said Wednesday. Michele ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn.NEW HAVEN, Conn. — A piece of lab machinery that killed a Yale University student when it ensnared her hair was missing required safeguards, and the accident exposed problems with the ...

MANCHESTER, Conn. (WTNH) — The U.S. Office of Occupational Safety and Health Administration will fine a Manchester environmental laboratory $907,000 after authorities said it “willfully” exposed ...