Contains practical guidance on an extensive range of health and safety considerations and demonstrates safety procedures, handling procedures and fire prevention.

Provides a list of relevant legislation, standards and codes of practice affecting laboratories.

Provides basic checklists for full range of management issues affecting laboratories.

Checklists can be photocopies for distribution to laboratory personnel or used as a template for producing your own site-specific guides.

Contains case studies from a range of laboratories.

Information on the various classes of fires and the different types of fire extinguishers has been updated.

Information on designing animal facilities and decommissioning the laboratory has been added.

References to Australian Standards have been updated throughout the manual to keep it up to date.

Information on resuscitation has been updated including a new resuscitation guide.

Information is clear and straightforward so you can apply it directly to your own workplace.

Learn from the expertise of specialist authors.

Contents Includes:

General safety

First aid

Reporting and recording

Emergency procedures

Laboratory design

Chemical safety

Radiation safety

Biological safety

Managing laboratory animals

Engineering safety

Waste disposal

Legal requirements

Seeking assistance

How to use the Manual

Scope and purpose

Glossary

Product Includes:
- One loose-leaf volume

- Approximately two loose-leaf updates and six Hazard Alert newsletters issued annually.

- 'National Safety' magazine, produced by the National Safety Council of Australia, which issues 11 times pa