Chemical Safety

The EHS Chemical Safety Team provides chemical inventory management guidance and support, chemical safety consultation, chemical labels, peroxide test strips, and more.

Chemical Safety – Personal Protective Equipment

Chemical Safety Guides and Job Aids

Alaina Anand, UC Berkeley, checks the instruments during the UC Berkeley class "Advanced Bioprocess Engineering Laboratory" which introduces advanced concepts of bioprocessing to chemical engineering students at the Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts Process Development Unit (ABPDU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in Emeryville, California, 03/31/2022.

Chemical Safety Alerts and Lessons Learned

NextGen nonproliferation leadership development program fellow Joe Brackbill works with chemicals inside a fume hood at the Latimer 520 Laboratory at UC Berkeley, 02/03/2025. Brackbill’s research is tackling problems related to the safety of advanced nuclear reactions. He is part of cohort 2 of the NextGen program.

Safety Data Sheets

Managing Time-Sensitive Chemicals

Managing Peroxide-Forming Organic Chemicals

Restricted Chemicals and Gases

Various chemical containers photographed at one of the labs in the Molecular Foundry, for a poster on safely handling hazardous materials and lab safety. 03/05/2020 -- Berkeley, California

Hydrofluoric Acid Generators

Chemical Lifecycle Stewardship

CMS Info
RFID Inventory Tracking
Central Chemical Receiving Facility
Chemical Storage Website

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Chemical Lifecycle Stewardship

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