If you are organizing an event at a UW location where food will be served, sold, or given away, you may need to apply for a UW Environmental Health & Safety Department (EH&S) Temporary Food Service Permit.
Does your laboratory have volatile organic chemicals that produce strong, pungent odors even when the cap and bottle are intact? Controlling these smells, often found in chemical storage areas, will help reduce your risk of exposure.
Volatile organic chemicals can escape their containers, which presents an exposure risk to everyone in the lab. Restricting the ability for the chemical to disperse into the air can lower that risk.
EH&S Radiation Safety has resources and guidance for University laboratories to reduce the risk of exposures and injuries when using ultraviolet (UV) lights or equipment containing UV lights.
As we head into autumn quarter, the University continues our multi-layered approach to COVID-19 prevention as outlined in Dr. Gottlieb’s message to the UW community and described in the University’s updated COVID-19 Prevention Plan.
During National Biosafety Month in October, EH&S is encouraging labs working with biohazards to identify hazards that could be substituted with a safer alternative to reduce the potential for harm while performing the same function.
Examples of safer alternatives include:
The Air Quality Index (AQI) in Bothell, Seattle, and Tacoma has worsened due to wind patterns, which have blown smoke into our region from the Bolt Creek Fire.
Incoming graduate students working in laboratories or other research spaces with hazards at any UW campus location are invited to attend the 2022 Graduate Student Safety Seminar. This seminar will orient the new researchers to the University’s safety requirements, procedures, and expectations.
Today the Air Quality Index (AQI) reached 69 in the Seattle-Bellevue-Kent Valley reporting area, which warrants additional action to raise awareness among our UW community and additional public and occupational health measures to be taken.
3M™ issued a User Advisory Notice for the 3M™ Versaflo™ TR-6590N Multi-Gas/HE Cartridge due to a potential for reduced particulate filter service life when using an affected cartridge in a high particulate loading environment. This does not put users at risk for exposure because the particulate filtration performance of the TR-6590N continues to provide approved HEPA filtration efficiency performance.
