Goals and Objectives

• Assemble, evaluate, and disseminate to professional industrial hygienists, occupational, and environmental health professionals information relevant to academic, research and development, medical, and diagnostic facilities, collectively referred to as laboratories.
  
• Develop and provide information resources to aid in prevention, identification, and control of potential exposures to chemical, biological, ergonomic, ionizing, and non-ionizing radiation, and physical hazards in laboratories.
  
• Identify, evaluate, and comment on proposed legislation, regulations, standards, and prudent industrial hygiene practices affecting laboratories.
  
• Identify and establish liaisons with other AIHA committees and other professional organizations addressing industrial hygiene-related issues in laboratories.

Lab Health & Safety Organizations

• Campus Safety Health and Environmental Management Association (CSHEMA)
• UC Center for Laboratory Safety
• The Laboratory Safety Institute
• US Chemical Safety Board

Resources

• AIHA Laboratory Health & Safety Committee Lessons-Learned Incident Reports
• OSHA Health and Safety Topics: Laboratories
• ANSI: Laboratory Safety Standards
• Stanford Environmental Health and Safety
• US Department of Health and Human Services, Environmental Health and Toxicology, Laboratory Safety