LibGuides: Chemistry Resources: Laboratory Safety

Laboratory Safety Websites

Safety Data Sheets (SDS)
A safety data sheet, or SDS, is a standardized document that contains occupational safety and health data. The International Hazard Communication Standard (HCS) mandates that chemical manufacturers must communicate a chemical’s hazard information to chemical handlers by providing a Safety Data Sheet. SDS's typically contain chemical properties, health and environmental hazards, protective measures, as well as safety precautions for storing, handling, and transporting chemicals.
ChemSpider
ChemSpider is a free chemical structure database providing fast access to over 67 million structures, properties, and associated information. By integrating and linking compounds from hundreds of high-quality data sources, ChemSpider enables researchers to discover the most comprehensive view of freely available chemical data from a single online search. It is owned by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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ChemSpider builds on the collected sources by adding additional properties, related information, and links back to original data sources. ChemSpider offers text and structure searching to find compounds of interest and provides unique services to improve this data by curation and annotation, and to integrate it with users’ applications.

Industrial guide to chemical and drug safety [electronic resource] / by T.S.S. Dikshith, Prakash V. Diwan.
Call Number: Ebsco RA1229 .D535 2003
ISBN: 0471236985
This handbook outlines procedures for the safe handling of drugs and chemical by workers in the manufacturing laboratory and industry. The authors, who work in the pharmacology division of the Indian Institute of Chemical Toxicology, summarize the uses and toxicity of heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, carbamates, and industrial solvents, then characterize different categories of therapeutic drugs and their interactions. The closing chapters discuss the effects of chemical contact on specific organs, the disposal of hazardous chemicals, good laboratory practice, and protocols for conducting toxicologic tests.
Prudent practices in the laboratory [electronic resource] : handling and management of chemical hazards / by Committee on Prudent Practices for Handling, Storage, and Disposal of Chemicals in Laboratories, Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology, Commission on Physical Sciences, Mathematics, and Applications, National Research Council.
Call Number: ebrary T55.3.H3 P78 2011
ISBN: 0309052297