In this month’s meeting, we discussed about base bath safety, reviewing a few incidents. Thank you for joining us in the discussion.

Thank you all for joining us at the October LSO meeting. This time we reviewed a vacuum trap explosion incident and discussed associated safety practices.

In this month’s LSO meeting, we discussed safety practices associated with chemical storage refrigerators. Thank you all for participating in this.

Thanks to everyone for attending the August LSO meeting! We reviewed a vacuum pump explosion incident and discussed safe work practices while working with vacuum pumps.

Thanks to all the participants for attending the June LSO meeting! This time we discussed about cryogen safety.

Thanks to everyone for attending the April LSO meeting! This time we discussed safe work practices while dealing with Lasers in the lab.

In this month’s meeting Pyrophoric Chemical Safety was discussed. In this context we reviewed a past incident at UCLA associated with tert-butyllithium, a highly pyrophoric material. Thanks to all the attendees!

Thanks to all the participants for attending February LSO meeting! This time we discussed about the process of risk assessment in chemistry laboratory. We also introduced our new Slack channel created for the LSOs to foster better communication.

In the January LSO meeting we discussed about peroxide forming chemicals and how to handle them safely. Thanks to everyone for their participation!