Hospitals appear to be on their own when it comes to preventive maintenance of laboratory ventilation systems. Although hospital labs are highly regulated, government agencies and voluntary ...

Laboratory ventilation is the primary method used to prevent exposure to hazardous substances in laboratories and other workspaces. Depending on the specific needs of the workspace, a fume hood, fume ...

General laboratory room ventilation is designed to provide heating and cooling to the laboratory. General room ventilation does not effectively control personnel exposures to hazardous levels of ...

The laboratories on Northwestern’s campus turn out cutting edge research, and they also use a lot of energy. Labs are particularly energy hungry spaces due to the need to run energy intensive ...

In the second reported major incident in recent days of mishandled hazardous materials at University of California-run Los Alamos National Laboratory, a lab employee was hospitalized for six days with ...