Semiconductor fabrication is complicated requiring nasty chemicals for everything from dopants to etchants. Working with such chemicals at home is dangerous and after releasing hydrochloride acid ...

Incorrect placement of a fume hood can severely compromise its ability to contain and remove hazardous substances, directly endangering laboratory personnel by increasing the risk of exposure to toxic ...

The laboratory chemical fume hood is the most common local exhaust ventilation system used in laboratories and is the primary method used to control inhalation exposures to hazardous substances. When ...

Most of us who work in laboratories have seen the safety videos that are a precondition of our employment. You know, the ones where an addled slacker commits the sum total of humankind’s follies in ...