Lab Safety Awareness Week 2025

 

Help raise awareness of safe lab practices at the UW!

Lab Safety Awareness Week is sponsored by CSHEMA and held at academic institutions nationwide February 10-14, 2025. This event is dedicated to recognizing the successes of laboratory safety programs and offering ideas on how to keep our faculty, staff and students safe.

Be a Safety Champion in your lab and receive a prize!

  1. Complete and check off as many of the bingo card activities* as possible in the days leading up to and during Lab Safety Awareness week. 
  2. Take a photo of at least one task completed and one photo of your form. 
  3. Email photos by February 16 to labcheck@uw.edu.

*Use this as an opportunity to complete a self-inspection for your lab.

Meet the EH&S Lab Safety Team!
Have any questions about or need help with laboratory safety practices or expectations? Are there any safety documents you would like feedback on? 
Members of the EH&S Lab Safety Team will be available to talk with you at the following campus locations from 8:30 am -11:30 am. Bring your questions about laboratory safety documents, practices or spaces.

  • Feb. 10 Magnuson Health Sciences Rotunda
  • Feb. 11 Life Sciences Building Lobby
  • Feb. 12 MolES/NanoES Lobby
  • Feb. 13 South Lake Union C Bldg Lobby

All members of the UW research and teaching labs community are welcome.

lab safety awareness week poster