Lab Safety Videos
| Title | Organization | Length | Description |
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| Lab Safety Academy | Dow Chemical | Extensive series of videos covering nearly every aspect of laboratory safety. Beta version. | |
| Health & Safety Essentials | RSC | (PDF Slides) | |
General |
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| Experimenting with Danger | CSB | 0:24:05 | The Chemical Safety Board review of academic safety issues, focusing on events at Texas Tech, Dartmouth, and UCLA. A fairly comprehensive overview of the safety challenges at university laboratories. |
| Introduction to Lab Safety | Dartmouth |
1:52:28 |
This introductory program covers essential topics on laboratory safety applicable to a wide range of laboratories. This course is a 2 hour flash audio and video presentation |
| To be (Safe) or not to be | UCSD | 0:08:47 | UC-San Diego lab students demonstrate safe procedures, and provide straight-forward recommendations for safety in the laboratory. Good introductory-level video. |
| A day in the Lab (A PI's perspective) | UCSD | 0:09:09 | Interaction between a PI and his students, with a focus on safe chemistry. A little more focus on some specific chemical reactions than other introductory videos. |
| FSU Chemistry Lab Safety | Florida State University | 0:06:52 | Eccentric old professor reminisces about a particularly unsafe previous student. Amusing, but doesn't present a particularly believable set of scenarios. |
| Safety Elements in Medical Laboratory Practices | US Department of Defense | 0:20:28 | DOD produced presentation focusing on medical/hospital lab safety. Good overview specific to laboratories dealing with potentially infectious materials, radiation, and chemical hazards. Straight narration with annoying background music. |
| Ultimate lab safety | ? | 0:07:07 | A light-hearted look at some of the simple things that can go wrong in the laboratory. |
| Practicing safe science | HHMI (LSI YouTube channel) | 0:16:26 | |
| Chemical hazards | HHMI (LSI YouTube channel) | 0:09:27 | |
| Safety enforcer | U Minnesota | 0:02:00 | |
| Science of dating | U Minnesota | 0:02:13 | |
| Hazard assessment | Iowa State | 0:03:35 | |
| Lab safety culture | UCLA | 0:01:32 | |
| Lab safety promo | U Minnesota | 0:02:13 | |
Chemical Storage |
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| Chemical storage hazards | HHMI (LSI YouTube channel) | 0:11:17 | |
Chemical Transportation |
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| Moving chemicals through public areas (lesson learned) | Cornell | 0:03:07 | |
| How to transport a chemical down the hall safely | Cornell | 0:00:41 | |
Skin Exposure & Effects |
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| Skin exposures & effects | Northwestern | 0:03:51 | |
General Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) |
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| Stay protected | UCSD | 0:01:05 | |
| Outfit for safety | UCSD | 0:05:27 | |
| PPE in the biological lab (lesson learned) | Cornell | 0:02:34 | |
| Maintaining situational awareness and facial protection (lesson learned) | Cornell | 0:01:32 | |
Lab Coats |
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| Importance of wearing a flame-resistant lab coat | Northwestern | 0:02:37 | Effective demonstration of flammability of lab coats which are not flame resistant. |
| Lab coat and acid spill (lesson learned) | Northwestern | 0:04:29 | Triflic acid |
| Why I wear a lab coat (lesson learned) | UCSD | 0:02:09 | Trifluoracetic acid burn |
Eyes |
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| I wish I wore my safety glasses | UC Berkeley | 0:02:08 | Effective demonstration of the proper use of an eyewash station for a splash accident. |
| Splash zone | UCSD | 0:01:33 | Short but effective demonstration on the value of wearing protective eyeware. |
| Safety in the academic chemistry laboratory- eye protection | ACS - CCS | 0:08:08 | The ACS Committee on Chemical Safety narrated PowerPoint on eye protection. The graphics show the different coverages provided by various eyeware. |
| Be wise | UCSD | 0:01:00 | |
Gloves |
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| Using nitrile gloves in labs | Keene State | 0:04:02 | |
| Gloves gone wild | UC Berkeley | 0:01:52 | Where NOT to wear your laboratory gloves. |
| Anhydrous nitric acid makes glove burn | Lu Le Laboratory | 0:02:37 | The first minute of this video shows the result of spilling nitric acid on a latex glove |
| Correctly removing PPE - gloves | Iowa State | 0:00:12 | |
| What wrecks gloves | Cornell | 0:00:38 | |
| Penetration, permeation, and degradation | Northwestern | 0:08:30 | Just animation, no audio |
Shoes |
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| Proper lab shoes | UCLA | 0:02:50 | |
| Glassware washing hazards | HHMI (LSI YouTube channel) | 0:10:04 | |
Fire |
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| Fire safety in the lab | UCLA | 0:12:03 | |
Fume Hoods & Biosafety Cabinets |
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| Fume hood airflow and operation | Labconco | 0:03:18 | Video focuses on airflow in a hood, proper placement of apparatus, and sash height. |
| Chemical fume hood animation | Dartmouth | 0:07:51 | Animated overview of fundamental aspects of lab hood operation. |
| Proper use of a fume hood | UC Berkeley | 0:03:38 | Brief but thorough review of safe operation of a laboratory hood. |
| Using a fume hood to protect yourself and others | Cornell | 0:10:30 | |
| Difference between fume hoods and biosafety cabinets | Cornell | 0:04:29 | |
| Biological safety cabinet: How it works to protect you | Northwestern | 0:05:17 | |
Autoclaves |
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| Autoclave safety animation | NIH, Dartmouth | 0:09:26 | Presents a detailed animated review of safe operation of an autoclave to decontaminate potentially infectious materials. |
Pressure Vessels |
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| Lessons learned: Pressure vessels | Northwestern | 0:07:45 | |
Compressed Gases |
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| Regulator installation | Northwestern | 0:02:40 | |
| How can I use a gas cylinder safely? | Cornell | 0:01:46 | |
Liquid Nitrogen |
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| Filling and maintenance of liquid nitrogen tanks | Northwestern | 0:16:54 | Well done demonstration of proper connection and hazards associated with gas cylinder regulators. |
Pyrophorics |
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| Handling pyrophoric materials | Northwestern & Dartmouth | 0:21:06 | |
| Pyrophoric liquid safety | UCLA | 0:11:06 | |
Alkali Metals |
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| Alkali metals in water | CS Chemists | 0:02:21 | |
Flash Chromatography |
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| Flash chromatography 101 | UCSD | 0:07:23 | UCSB students discuss, plan and demonstrate safe flash chromatography techniques. Well produced. |
Centrifuge |
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| Centrifuge safety | HHMI (LSI YouTube channel) | 0:08:26 | It's a little dated (1995), but still the best video out there on safe centrifuge operation. |
Hazardous Waste |
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| Hazardous waste management | UCLA | 0:11:10 | |
| Triple rinsing containers | Northwestern | 0:03:16 | |
| Ethanol plus nitric acid | UIUC | 0:03:38 | |
| Nitric acid waste | Northwestern | 0:04:16 | Mostly focuses on mixing with organics but also mentions aqua regia |
| Vented caps | Northwestern | 0:02:57 | |
| Radioactive waste disposal & minimization | Northwestern | 0:07:31 | |
Spills |
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| Cleaning up a small mercury spill | UC Berkeley | 0:05:13 | Demonstration of how to clean up a very small mercury spill. Not practical for more than one broken thermometer, but thorough for that size spill. |
| Chemical spill cleanup - floor dry | Iowa State | 0:02:41 | |
| Responding to incidental chemical spills | Northwestern | 0:05:07 | |
| Responding to a biological spill | Northwestern | 0:04:44 | |
| Responding to a radioactive materials spill | Northwestern | 0:06:22 | |