Participants process and product by national research council committee on design construction and renovation of laboratory facilities.
Floor plan research lab layout.
Accident and injury reporting.
An extensive period of pre planning is vital to the design of a lab.
A well designed lab can be more efficient quieter more attractive and cheaper than one with design related problems.
In addition floor standing centrifuges are noisy and dangerous as are large irradiators and will often require a room with a lockable door.
Confined space entry program.
Asbestos and other regulated building materials.
Simon who until recently was a lab member at rockefeller university in new york studying biophysics developed the methodology for an experimental research project he calls evolving floor.
Laboratory design construction and renovation.
The guide includes helpful checklists for various teaching and storage spaces chemical hygiene plans and articles related to safe laboratory design.
For experimental spaces sketch out the dimensions of laboratory grade furniture benches desks equipment shelves wash areas on the architectural floor plan.
Laboratory risk assessment tool.
Workshopping with those who will be using the area themselves is essential since the lab can be tailored to what the research requires and superfluous elements can be quickly identified.
National academy press 2000.
Lab safety surveys and inspections.
Three dimensional lab module the three dimensional lab module planning concept combines the basic lab module or a two directional lab module with any lab corridor arrangement for each floor of a building.