Here is a collection of web-based information about using chemical safety levels or other control banding techniques in the laboratory. If you know of another resource or example that we should add to the list, contact us at secretary@dchas.org.
General Information
Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety
OSH Answers Fact Sheets
http://www.ccohs.ca/oshanswers/chemicals/control_banding.html
NIOSH Control Banding Page
Overview of Control Banding Theory and Research
http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/ctrlbanding/default.html
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals
Wikipedia description:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globally_Harmonized_System_of_Classification_and_Labelling_of_Chemicals
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe “About the GHS” page:
http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/publi/ghs/ghs_welcome_e.html
OSHA guidance:
https://www.osha.gov/dsg/hazcom/index.html
PubChem Laboratory Chemical Safety Summaries:
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/lcss/
1999 Article in the Journal of Chemical Health and Safety
Chemical safety levels (CSLs): A proposal for chemical safety practices in microbiological and biomedical laboratories
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107490989900009X
Specific Applications
Laboratory Inspection Frequency
University of Michigan Lab Hazard Rank
http://www.oseh.umich.edu/research/haz-ranking.shtml
Laboratory Personal Protective Equipment Selection Guide
University of South Florida
http://www.usf.edu/administrative-services/environmental-health-safety/documents/labsafety-trainingppehazardassessment2015.pdf
Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures
University of California Davis
http://ehs.ucdavis.edu/article/standard-operating-procedure-templates
Laboratory Ventilation
Cornell University Ithaca Laboratory Ventilation Management Plan
https://sp.ehs.cornell.edu/lab-research-safety/chemical-safety/lab-ventilation/Documents/Cornell%20LVMP_2016.pdf
Laboratory Emergency Response
University of North Carolina Greensboro
http://www.uncg.edu/sft/EnvironmentalAffairs/LaboratoryHazWarningSignProgrampolicy.pdf
Working Safely with Engineered Nanomaterials in Academic Research Setting
California Nanosafety Consortium of Higher Education
http://www.ehs.uci.edu/programs/sop_library/Nanotoolkit.pdf
Control Bands in Biosafety Settings
Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL) 5th Edition
http://www.cdc.gov/biosafety/publications/bmbl5/index.htm
