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Autoclave Use: This fact sheet provides guidance on how to effectively use autoclaves.
Aboveground Storage Tanks (ASTs): This fact sheet summarizes federal requirements and leak prevention measures.
Aerosol Exposure: This fact sheet explains potential aerosol exposure hazards from sources such as spray cans.
Agricultural Health & Safety: This fact sheet covers hazards in agricultural operations, including the importance of using lockout/tagout.
Alternatives to Chromic/Sulfuric Acid: This fact sheets deals with alternatives for cleaning laboratory glassware.
Antimicrobials Are Pesticides: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) defines antimicrobials (disinfectants such as chlorine bleach, sanitizers, bacteriostats) as pesticides, and the same safety guidelines must be followed.
Back Belts: This fact sheet provides information about back belts and summarizes the EH&S position with respect to them.
Bees, Hornets & Wasps: Stings from bees, hornets and wasps kill more people than bites and stings from other insects because of allergic reactions; learn how to avoid them.
Biohazardous Waste: This fact sheet gives you a complete list of waste characterized as biohazardous.
Biting & Stinging Insects: This is a list of precautions that should be used to prevent insect bites and stings.
Black Widows: Learn how to identify the poisonous female black widow, and prevent and treat bites.
Bloodborne Pathogens Standard: This fact sheet contains a one page introduction to Bloodborne Pathogens.
Building Temperature Concerns: This fact sheet addresses indoor air quality issues involving environmental temperatures within a building.
Centrifuge Safety: This fact sheet provides tube care and safe centrifuge operations to prevent injuries.
Chemical & Flammable Materials Storage: These storage guidelines must be followed to prevent fires and explosions.
Chemical Disinfectants: This fact sheet lists common disinfectants and the procedures for which they are effective and ineffective.
Chemical Emergencies: These guidelines for exits, fire extinguishers, safety facilities and protective equipment will help an emergency response turn out smoother.
Chemical Inventory: This fact sheet summarizes the importance of the chemical inventory and the substances that should be listed in it.
Chemical Storage Segregation Guidelines: This is a list of incompatible chemicals. They should always be handled, stored and packed so that they cannot accidentally come in contact with each other.
Chemical Substitutes: This is a list of safer chemical substitutes available for certain purposes.
Chemical Waste Identification & Segregation: Use this fact sheet to handle chemical waste safely and properly.
Compressed Gas Safety: This fact sheet covers the hazards of gas cylinders and goes over safety measures for transportation.
Computer Monitor Selection: This fact sheet compares the Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and the Cathode Ray Tube (DRT), placing the LCD as the more "ergonomically friendly" screen monitor.
Computer Workstation Ergonomics: This fact sheet summarizes how to adjust your computer workstation to reduce ergonomic risks.
Confined Space Awareness: This fact sheet provides general information concerning confined spaces.
Construction Safety: This fact sheet covers general safety tips to prevent injuries.
Cryogenic Liquids: Review the hazards and precautions to safely use cryogenic liquids and cryotubes.
Custodians - Why Didn't They Pick up My Trash?: This fact sheet explains why chemicals may not be thrown in the regular trash.
Disinfectants from Chlorine Compounds: Several factors affect disinfectant activity; review the available compounds, characteristics and hazards.
Disposal of Sharps: This fact sheet deals with proper disposal of needles, syringes and lab glass.
Dosimetry: State and federal government agencies set limits for permissible radiation exposure to employees during a calendar year. Additionally, at UC Riverside, every effort is made to maintain radiation exposure As Low As Reasonably Achievable (ALARA). With the exception of embryo or fetus exposure, the exposure goals are to keep exposures to less than one-half the state and federal limits.
Drain Disposal Alert!: Disposal of inappropriate materials into the sanitary sewer can damage sewer pipes, jeopardize the health of maintenance workers, and cause harmful environmental impacts; this fact sheet tells you how to comply with regulations.
Dust Masks: The voluntary use of dust masks at UCR is allowed only in atmospheres that are not hazardous. Please read this fact sheet to make sure you use your dust mask the right way.
E. Coli O157:H7: Find out about the symptoms of this harmful strain of E. coli bacteria, and how to prevent illness.
Earthquake Safety: These are simple steps to make your lab or office more earthquake safe.
Electric & Magnetic Fields: During recent years, questions have been raised about the possible health effects of 60-hertz (power frequency) electric and magnetic fields (EMF), which are found wherever you have electricity.
Electrical Guidelines for Chemical Laboratories: These guidelines cover electrical safety topics that can be used in any laboratory.
Electrical Safety Tips: This fact sheet provides guidance on safe use of cords, plugs, and power strips.
Ergonomic Resources: Use this fact sheet to identify campus ergonomic resources.
Ergonomic Risks: Learn about the ergonomic risk factors that are present in the laboratory, office, and other work areas.
Ethidium Bromide: Ethidium Bromide is a mutagen that requires appropriate detoxification and disposal.
Eye & Face Protection (also Eye & Face PPE): This fact sheet has information on the basic types of eye and face protection for various hazards.
Eye & Face Protection for Lab Workers: There is different eye protection that should be worn during different procedures (contact lenses are not protective equipment, and should not be worn when using certain chemicals).
Fall Protection: Slips, trips and falls from leveled areas or heights have been fatal. Use this fact sheet to prevent these accidents.
Fire Extinguishers: Using the wrong extinguisher can be dangerous; find out about the classes of fires and the extinguisher appropriate for each.
Forklift Safety: Review these safety tips to prevent accidents and injuries.
Formaldehyde: Exposure to formaldehyde vapors can be irritating to the eyes, nose, and upper respiratory tract. Use this fact sheet to minimize and control exposure.
Fume Hood Certifications & Safe Practices: This fact sheet summarizes the components that help prevent exposures and accidents.
Fume Hood Guidelines for Chemical Labs: This fact sheet covers ventilation rates and chemical storage for fume hood safety.
Glove Selection: This fact sheet summarizes the factors and materials to consider when selecting gloves.
Gloves Resistant to Chemicals: This fact sheet provides safety tips for glove use to reduce skin contact with chemicals.
Glycol Ethers (Cellosolves®): This fact sheet lists glycol ethers to avoid because of reproductive hazards.
Guidelines for Chemical Labs: This fact sheet covers ventilation rates and chemical storage for fume hood safety.
Hand & Power Tool Safety: Learn how to use tools safely and prevent injuries with this fact sheet.
Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome: Learn how to prevent exposures to this deadly disease that is transmitted by infected rodents through urine, droppings, saliva, or a bite.
Hearing Conservation: This fact sheet covers essentials for a hearing conservation program.
Hearing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (also Hearing PPE): This fact sheet covers the common devices used for hearing protection.
Heat Illness Prevention & Response: Use this fact sheet to learn about the type of heat illnesses, prevention and treatment.
Hydrofluoric Acid: Read about the properties that make immediate first aid for HF exposure essential.
Hydrofluoric Acid Emergencies: Find out what to do for spills, skin, eye, and inhalation exposures.
Hydrogen Sulfide: This fact sheet covers the hazards of hydrogen sulfide gas in confined spaces.
Indoor Air Quality: This fact sheet contains information on indoor air quality parameters and how to request an evaluation.
Inorganic Arsenic: Know what to do if contamination or exposure occurs to control the situation.
Insects & Lyme Disease: This fact sheet summarizes how you can protect yourself from ticks that may be infected with Lyme disease.
Keyboard Use: Review the wrong and correct typing styles to reduce discomfort and injuries.
Laser Operating Procedures: This discusses the elements required in standard operating procedures for all class lasers.
Laser Protective Eyeware (also Laser PPE): Eye protection is required when using all class 3b and 4 lasers or laser systems.
Laser Training Responsibilities: This is a summary of the training responsibilities Principal Investigators who use lasers or laser systems are responsible for at UCR.
Laser Warning Signs & Labels: Principal Investigators who use lasers are responsible for ensuring that all lasers are appropriately labeled and warning signs are conspicuously posted.
Lasers: Administration and Procedural Controls: Administrative and procedural controls vary depending on the class of laser.
Lasers: Class 4 Lasers: This summarizes control measures for class 4 lasers.
Lasers: Classes 1, 2 & 3: This fact sheet provides control measures for classes 1, 2 and 3 lasers.
Lasers: Engineering Controls: Engineering control measures vary according to the class of laser.
Lifting: This fact sheet summarizes the proper way of lifting to avoid injuries.
Management of Lab Chemicals: Follow these guidelines to store chemicals safely in your workplace.
Material Safety Data Sheets: This fact sheet covers MSDS regulations for hazardous substances and provides information on requests and storage locations.
Medical & Biological Waste Disposal: Use this fact sheet for clarifications on disposing of medical and biological waste.
Mercury Spill Control: Mercury spills and exposure can be very dangerous; follow the guidelines for large and small spills.
Microscope Use: Reduce ergonomic risks when working with microscopes.
Mouse Use: Use these tips to prevent stress to the wrist, shoulder, neck.
Needle & Syringe Safety: This one page fact sheet provides guidance on how to work safely with needles and syringes.
Nitric Acid: Nitric vapors can cause severe damage to the skin, eyes, respiratory system and may cause death if treatment is delayed.
Perchloric Acid: Use the safe handling and storage guidelines to prevent spills and exposure.
Peroxide Formations: These are guidelines to minimize peroxide formation, which can be explosive.
Peroxide Forming Chemicals: This fact sheet lists the type of chemicals that may form peroxide during storage.
Pesticide Accumulation: Follow these guidelines to minimize accumulation of pesticides.
Pesticide Storage: These guidelines can assist personnel in designing and using pesticide storage areas for agricultural use.
Phenol: This fact sheet summarizes the hazards and safety precautions when using phenol.
Photographic Processing Safety: This fact sheet explains the hazards and controls for chemical exposures resulting from photographic processing.
Picric Acid: These are proper storage tips to prevent lab explosions, and poisoning from exposure.
Pipetting: This fact sheet provides safety tips for reducing ergonomic risk when using a pipette.
Power Outages: Know what to do during a “rolling blackout” to prevent injury to yourself and co-workers, and damage to university facilities and equipment.
Rabies: This summarizes how a person can be exposed to rabies and how to prevent it.
Radiation & Human Health: This fact sheet summarizes the effects of ionizing radiation on human health.
Radiation Exposures: Find out how you can prevent external and internal exposure to radiation.
Radiation Quantities & Units: This fact sheet defines the units of radiation.
Radiation Safety Requirements: Those authorized by the State of California to operate diagnostic radiation-producing machines are required to comply with regulatory standards and good health physics practices.
Radioactive Contamination Monitoring: As a condition in the Radiation Use Authorization (RUA), you must maintain an ongoing radiation monitoring program for all radionuclide work areas, storage locations, and equipment that may have come into contact with radioactive materials.
Radioactive Decontamination: When radioactive contamination occurs, it must be removed in a safe and responsible manner.
Radioactive Materials Inventory: An accurate inventory must be maintained at all times.
Rattlesnakes: Southern California has several native venomous species of rattlesnakes; learn how to prevent and treat a bite.
Refrigerant Recycling Rule: This EH&S fact sheet summarizes Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulations and resources.
Refrigerators & Freezers: "Lab-Safe" or flammable storage refrigerators/ freezers, not household-type, must be used for the storage of flammable/ explosive materials.
Reproductive Hazards: Chemical & Radiological: This fact sheet goes over the hazards and safety practices to reduce reproductive hazards.
Reproductive Health Hazards: This fact sheet provides information on basic reproductive health and how to request an occupational exposure assessment for reproductive hazards.
Respiratory Protection (also Respiratory PPE): This fact sheet provides guidance on what is respiratory protection, when respiratory protection is required, and how to obtain respiratory protection.
Safety Performance Evaluations: This fact sheet provides guidance to supervisors and managers for evaluating safe work practices.
Safety Shower Testing: This fact sheet explains the proper operation, maintenance, and testing for safety showers in chemical use areas.
Shop Safety - Safeguarding Machines: This fact sheet provides guidance on machine guarding in trade shops.
Spill Controls for Hazardous Materials: Every lab must be prepared to clean up spills with the supplies and methods outline here.
Storm Water System on Campus: Review this to know how to control anything but rainfall runoff from entering the storm water system, which is discharged UNTREATEDinto streams, lakes, and oceans.
Student Right to Know: This fact sheet provides guidance to students on their right to obtain information on hazards in labs, art studios, and shops.
Temporary Food Facility Permit: This fact sheet summarizes the fees involved, and the procedure for obtaining a permit.
Test Tube Handling: Follow these safety tips to reduce ergonomic injuries while handling test tubes in the lab.
Toxic Plants: These are tips can help prevent and treat dermatitis from toxic plants.
Training Registration - Online: This fact sheets tells you how to create your training profile, register for sessions and waitlists, and how to request a training session for your department.
Ultraviolet Radiation: Although Ultraviolet radiation plays a useful role in research and medical applications, there are also harmful affects that can be found in the lab.
Underground Storage Tank Leaks: Find out what to do for suspected and actual leaks in your tank.
Waste Disposal Cost Reductions: This fact sheet describes the requirements for bulking liquid waste.
West Nile Virus Prevention: This fact sheet lists three things that you can do to prevent getting West Nile Virus.
Workstation Ergonomics: Review the signs and solutions to risk factors associated with task organization.
Wrist & Hand Ergonomics: Prolonged keyboard use and prolonged manual pipetting are the most likely causes of repetitive motion injury at UCR.