Free Documents

Here you will find a bunch of free documents that you can download and are free to use.  If you would like to suggest a document or offer one to be used, please contact Andrea Burgess.

LSI Collected Works:

As we are continuing to provide the very best in resources, you can now obtain copies of works we have found and collected over the years.  We will also provide some of LSIs own publications free for download.  You can obtain printed and bound copies of publications if available they will be linked to.  Check back regularly for new items are always being added.

Health and Safety Policy Statement (pdf)

Student Safety Contracts/Signoffs:

LSI does not endorse or validate the quality of any of these documents.  They are provided here as a favor from some of the Labsafety-L list members to other list members.

• Link to Flinn Scientific's student sign-off sheet (reproduction rights to teachers who are customers).  Flinn Scientific's home page.
• Donated Sample 1 (Student1.rtf, readable with formatting by most word processing programs.
• Donated Sample 2 (Student2.rtf).
• Donated Sample 3 (rtf and Word 6 or higher).

Lab Safety Inspection Checklist:

LSI does not endorse or validate the quality of any of these documents.  They are provided here as a favor from some of the Labsafety-L list members to other list members.

• International R&D (US) Safety Committee:: rtf   Word97 (or higher)
• Donated Sample 2: html version, reference item table worded as violations.
• Donated Sample 3: Word 6 (or higher), a self inspection list.
• Donated Sample 4: Excel 97 (or higher), PDF version.

Miscellaneous:

LSI does not endorse or validate the quality of any of these documents.  They are provided here as a favor from some of the Labsafety-L list members to other list members.

• Office Inspection Checklist - Word 97 (or higher)  PDF
• Start the School year Safely! - html
• Emergency Contacts - Word 97 (or higher)  PDF
• Generic Laboratory Safety Contract - PDF
• Procedure Approval - Word 97 (or higher)  PDF
• Chemical Compatibilities - html
• UNH Biological & Chemical Safety Plan - PDF

Presentations:

Dr. James Kaufman	Lab Safety: Choices, Ventilation and the OSHA Lab Standard
Jon Zboralski	Fume Hoods/Quantum Leaps
Dr. Cedric Herry	The Science Supporting GreenFume Hoods: Molecular Adsorption Explained
Tom Smith	ASHRAE 110 and Containment Testing as Applied to Filtered Hoods
James Blount	Strategies for Approaching a New Zero Carbon Footprint Lab Building
Francis Boucher	National Grid
Clay Stafford	A Realistic Vision of the Lab of the Future Beyond 21st Century Design - Identifying, the Connecting the Right Dots
Tom Kolsun & David Belleville	Save Energy and Cut your Carbon Footprint with Demand - Based Control of Lab Flow

SAFE Labs can be GREEN Labs Conference presents four, day-long conferences featuring notable speakers from the Lab Design industry and Environmental Health and Safety Community.  They come together to educate the lab community on green trends and safety issues and how the two really CAN coexist in the same lab, without breaking the bank. 

Click on the links to the right to download their presentations.

These are the presentations from 2010 ------>

There are more conferences being presented each year, these are just an example of what you can expect to see when you attend.