Fifteen years ago, a string of high-profile laboratory accidents, including the death of Sheri Sangji, rocked the world of chemistry. The events made Robert H. Hill, one of the authors of Laboratory ...

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.

In February of this year, I was injured in an accident in a chemistry laboratory. I had set up an experiment that involved the separate use of hydrogen and oxygen gases fed into a glove box from ...