A Little History… 

"Laboratory Safety Guidelines" were written while Dr. James Kaufman worked for the Dow Chemical Company in an attempt to share with schools, colleges, and universities what he was learning about lab safety.  In 1976, Dow sent copies to 2,000 colleges and university chemistry departments and received requests for 250,000 reprints!

In 1986, Dr. Kaufman assisted Dow with a revision of the guidelines.  Dow sent this version to 10,000 high schools.  Since then, over two million copies have been distributed and reprinted in various forms. 

This year, we revised the guidelines for Fisher Science Education to make a new, 4-color "Laboratory Safety Guidelines" poster.  Five thousand copies are being distributed.  

The Laboratory Safety Institute offers these suggestions for improving laboratory safety because we believe that having an under-standing of inherent hazards and learning how to be safe should be an integral and important part of science education, work, and life. 

An expanded version of "Lab Safety Guide- lines" with a 200-500 word discussion of each of the guidelines is available from The Laboratory Safety Institute for $10.00.  The Guidelines are also available in a full-color, 2'x3' poster for $12.50. Visit our webstore.

All requests should be prepaid and include shipping and handling ($8.00 minimum).