The following is a summary of the codes, standards, and references pertaining to laboratories. References are in parentheses.
The following is a summary of the codes, standards, and references pertaining to laboratories. References are in parentheses.
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Furnishes special considerations that must be given to accommodate laboratory workers with physical impairments. This includes wheelchair accessibility, work bench height, and access to controls.
Helps respirator users to establish, implement, and administer an effective respiratory protection program.
Establishes minimum requirements and procedures for the design and operation of laboratory ventilation systems used to protect personnel from over-exposure to harmful or potentially harmful contaminants.
Provides a method to quantify fume hood performance. It tests the competence of a fume hood at a given point in time to establish a baseline for quantifying a fume hood's performance. Repeat testing is done to track and evaluate future performance compared to this baseline.
Forms the basis for the indoor temperature and humidity for most spaces.
Forms the basis for the minimum outside air requirements for most spaces and stipulates when treatment of outside air and exhaust air is necessary.
Provides guidelines for designing energy efficient HVAC systems.
Provides a condensed version of the information provided in the chapters of this ASHRAE Laboratory Design Guide.
States regulations in terms of measured performance, thus making it possible to accept new materials and methods of construction, which can be evaluated by accepted standards, without the necessity of adopting cumbersome amendments for each variable condition.
BOCA National Mechanical Code, 6th Edition (BOCA 1987b)
Provides Biosafety Level 1 to 4 procedures and guidelines for the manipulations of etiologic agents in laboratory settings and animal facilities. The four levels of control that are defined range from safely dealing with microorganisms that pose no risk of disease for normal healthy individuals to dealing with the high risk of life threatening diseases.
Provides airflow specifications, HEPA filter sizes and motor/bulb sizes as well as any other special notes for biological safety cabinets, Isolators and Laminar Flow hoods.
Assists institutions in caring for and using animals in ways judged to be scientifically, technically, and humanely appropriate.
Provides reliable design information related to specific health and safety issues for new and renovated laboratories. Factors such as efficiency, economics, energy conservation, and design flexibility are considered.
Gives hands-on guidance to a wide range of topics including differences and similarities between various laboratories, laboratory planning, communication enhancing design, and the definition of building systems.
Recommends best practices, including research data and information on the design, maintenance, and evaluation of industrial exhaust ventilations systems. Basic ventilation principles and sample calculations are also presented.
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Provides the most up-to-date requirements for dealing with flammable and combustible liquids and is therefore useful to design engineers, enforcing officials, insurers, and laboratory workers.
Provides the minimum fire protection requirements for fire safe design and operation in educational and industrial laboratories using chemicals.
Addresses all the construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to minimize danger to life from fire, smoke, and panic. Forms the basis for law in many national jurisdictions.
Identifies guidelines for decreasing the risk of explosion or fire and the severity of contamination from a fire or explosion at facilities (except nuclear reactors) that handle materials that are radioactive.
Provides comprehensive information and guidance on the principles and applications of air filtration, which supplies the level of particulate cleanliness required by HVAC systems.
Provides information regarding the minimum current good manufacturing practices for methods to be used in, and the facilities or controls to be used for, the manufacture, processing, packing, or holding of a drug to assure that such drug meets the requirements of the act as to safety, and has the identity and strength and meets the quality and purity characteristics that it purports or is represented to possess.
Provides information concerning the minimum current good manufacturing practices for preparation of drug products (excluding positron emission tomography drugs) for administration to animals or humans.
Determines various criteria and procedures for the identification, classification, and regulation of potential occupational carcinogens that exist in each workplace in the United States and that are regulated by the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (the Act).
Provides worker protection from exposure to bloodborne pathogens.
Provides protection for all laboratory workers engaged in the use of hazardous chemicals.
Recommends several prudent practices that stimulate a culture of safety for chemical laboratory operations. Provides information and cross-references on how to handle compounds that pose special hazardous risks.
Provides information on design, materials of construction, use, and testing of laboratory fume hoods. These tests establish the average face velocity and adequacy of the airflow throughout the overall open face area of fume hoods.
Provides information for architects, specifying engineers, contractors, and other purchasers about the installation practices recommended by manufacturers of laboratory furniture and equipment.
Provides manufacturers, specifiers, and users with tools for evaluating the safety, durability, and structural integrity of laboratory casework and complementary items.
This document provides guidance on management and administration, hazard identification and evaluation, laboratory Safety, Health and Environmental Division programs, engineering controls, protective clothing and equipment, work practice controls and laboratory emergency situations.