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Lab Safety Awareness Week

Lab Safety Awareness Week is an event held from February 10-14, 2025, that recognizes the successes of laboratory health and safety programs and offers information and ideas on how to keep our faculty, staff, and students safe.

Why Participate?

Successful laboratory safety awareness and programs can help identify and manage laboratory hazards before they cause injury. Participating in CSHEMA Lab Safety Awareness Week can help get your awareness programs started, boosting one that already exists, or highlight your safety successes.

Award Submission

Get recognized for your creative initiatives in promoting Laboratory Safety Awareness on your campus. Award submission deadline is March 31st. Upload a summary of your institution’s initiative for the promotion of CSHEMA’s 2025 Laboratory Safety Week highlighting the attributes described below:

Deployment strategy
Integration and quality of media and mediums
Message clarity
Originality

2025 New Resources

Greenhouse Safety

Greenhouses are integral to research and educational activities, yet safety concerns are frequently overlooked.

Greenhouse Safety (Poster)

CSHEMA LabSafetyWeek Posters greenhouses

Makerspaces

Elements of safety-by-design, user training, and strategies for monitoring and access control are essential for makerspace safety.

Makerspaces (Poster)

CSHEMA LabSafetyWeek Posters makerspaces

2025 Media Elements

Lab Safety Awareness Week Resources (previous years)

You can still download content from past topics under the "Other Topics to Consider" section below. Feel free to customize the content with your institution's logo and information. Each folder includes the following:

8.5"x11" Poster
8.5"x11" Spanish Poster
Digital TV Graphic - Horizontal versions of the posters. The size of the text and the amount of space for bullets have been reduced to aid with readability from a distance. You will have to save the Word doc as a PDF, then save that as a JPEG.

Click below to download a packaged ZIP folder. Feel free to customize the content with your institution's logo and information.

Engineering Controls

Identifying, getting familiar via training, and maintaining engineering control equipment is critical in protecting and saving lives and health.

Engineering Controls (Zip)

Chemical Storage

Best Practices for Chemical Storage are critical to ensure community safety.

Chemical Storage (Zip)

Personal Protective Equipment and General Lab Attire

Personal protective equipment (PPE) helps to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and illnesses.

PPE and General Lab Attire (Zip)

We're All in this Together!

Safety is everyone’s responsibility. When each person in the lab does their part, the lab is a safer place to work.

We're All in this Together (Zip)

Safety Equipment in the Lab

Identifying, getting familiar via training, and keeping and maintaining safety equipment are critical in protecting and saving lives and health in emergency situations.

Lab Safety Equipment (Zip)

Lab Housekeeping

Good lab housekeeping reduces the number of accidents, minimize risks & consequences of slips, trips, falls, unplanned reactions and fire.

Lab Housekeeping (Zip)

Hazard Identification & Risk Assessment

The process of identifying hazards, determining the severity of potential risks, and establishing suitable/proper control measures in place are key components to keep the academic community safe.

Hazard Assessment (Zip)

Meet Our Team

Spotlight department leaders or key personnel.

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