BU Environmental Health & Safety (EHSEnvironmental Health & Safety) helps ensure compliance and safety by conducting inspections and evaluations, providing training, and implementing various programs for laboratories across the BU campus and BMC. This page contains links to key resources from EHS of relevance to the BU research community.
Lab Safety Resources
Extensive information about laboratory safety is available on the EHS website, including resources on the following:
- Biological Safety
- Chemical Safety
- Controlled Substances
- Environmental and Waste Management
- Freezer Storage
- Laboratory Decontamination and Decommissioning
- Moving Chemicals & Hazardous Materials
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Radiation Safety
- Safety Shower and Eyewash Toolkit
Lab Safety Training & Tools
EHS offers trainings on research safety, medical physics and radiation safety, campus and clinical safety, controlled substances, environmental and waste management, and emergency management. They also train lab safety coordinators and oversee BU’s lab management system, BioRAFT.
- EHS Trainings, a comprehensive list of BU and BMC training sessions
- Laboratory Safety Coordinator Toolkit contains tools and information for BU Lab Safety Coordinators
- An introduction to BioRAFT, the portal BU uses to manage lab trainings, inventory, safety and other activities related to research compliance
Laboratory Safety Committee
BU’s Laboratory Safety Committee (LSCLaboratory Safety Committee) provides guidance and administrative oversight of environmental health and safety in BU’s academic research and teaching laboratories.
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