Establishing rules, programs, and policies for laboratory safety and security is of no value if organizational leaders do not enforce them and if laboratory managers and workers do not follow them.

Some rules are NOT made to be broken. That is true of the rules used in a chemistry lab. They are really, truly for your safety and not your humiliation.

Laboratory safety is crucial in protecting researchers, students and staff from hazards in the laboratory environment. Basic factors such as the physical state (gas, liquid or solid) of the chemicals ...