Janus Safety Demonstration Laboratory

The Janus Safety Demonstration Laboratory is a mock lab set up as a teaching facility to demonstrate safe vs. unsafe laboratory practices. Examples of proper laboratory behavior include regulatory-compliant labeled and capped hazardous waste collection bottles, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and properly stored chemicals. Undesirable laboratory practices depicted in the “unsafe” section of the lab include a researcher not wearing shoes, an improperly secured compressed gas cylinder, and use of parafilm as a cap on an HPLC waste collection bottle.